GeekWire Radio: This startup founder wants to help you find a better babysitter

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[Editor's note:  Be sure to join us in person this Thursday, April 11 for the GeekWire Radio Show, live on stage for the first time. Click here for tickets.] Our topic this week: Your kids, and how to take a break from them. Yes, it’s the eternal challenge for many people with young children — how do… Read More…

Bill Gates and Paul Allen reprise classic Microsoft photo, three decades later

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The photo above is a Microsoft classic, showing the company’s founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, surrounded by personal computers in 1981. Fast forward 32 years, and check out the picture below, taken this week at Allen’s Living Computer Museum in Seattle. So much fun catching up w/ computing pioneers at the #LCMCelebration last night! Here… Read More…

Bill Gates invests in energy storage again, this time with battery maker Aquion

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In the past few years, Bill Gates has already invested in three energy storage companies — MIT spinout Metal Battery (renamed Ambri), Berkeley-based LightSail Energy and Bellevue-based TerraPower. Now, the Microsoft co-founder is putting his money to a fourth. Pennsylvania-based Battery maker Aquion Energy announced a $35 million funding round today that includes Gates as a new investor. The amount Gates… Read More…

Time’s top Twitter feeds: Bill Gates, @SeattleMamaDoc and journalist Glenn Fleishman

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Philanthropist Bill Gates (@BillGates), technology journalist Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) and pediatrician Wendy Sue Swanson (@SeattleMamaDoc) are among those chosen for Time’s list of the top 140 Twitter feeds. Fleishman, a Seattle freelancer who contributes to The Economist and serves as executive editor of The Magazine, certainly produces one of our favorite Twitter feeds in the… Read More…

Kymeta: Is this Bill Gates’ next billion-dollar company?

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Wireless technology company Kymeta Corp. has been in business for a grand total of seven months, but already it has landed a $6.2 million engineering contract with the Inmarsat satellite company to accelerate its product development. Kymeta has grown to more than 40 employees and contractors, including some of the leading experts in the field, and its Redmond… Read More…

Bill Gates addresses cybersecurity threats, then gets hacked

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stopped by the Washington Post today and spoke about his support for addressing the threats of cybersecurity. Coincidentally, Gates today became the latest celebrity to have his credit card, social security and other information posted online as part of an ongoing celebrity doxxing fiasco. Gates’ SSN, date of birth, address and credit card… Read More…

GeekWire Radio: How data, technology and analytics are reshaping education

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Our topic this week on the GeekWire radio show: The future of education, and how technology is changing the experience of learning in the classroom and at home. Joining me as guest host is Frank Catalano, the GeekWire columnist who works as an education technology consultant. He’s just back from a trip to SXSWedu in Austin,… Read More…

Bill Gates at SXSWedu: The future of education is data

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If there was a single nerdy subtext that Bill Gates brought to his closing keynote at the SXSWedu conference in Austin, it was the importance of data. Useful data. Education data. Gates, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was the headliner to a standing-room only crowd of roughly 2,500 at SXSWedu, the… Read More…

Bill Gates ranks 2nd on Forbes billionaires list, Jeff Bezos rises up the charts

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Forbes is out today with its annual ranking of the world’s top billionaires, and Seattle tech titans are well represented yet again. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (net worth of $67 billion) finished in the second spot behind Mexican telecom, finance and retail investor Carlos Slim ($73 billion). But the more interesting story continues to be… Read More…

Code.org video featuring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and other coding geeks goes viral

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Code.org, the non-profit created by entrepreneurs Ali and Hadi Partovi, has struck a nerve with its video about the importance of computer science education. The video, which was released earlier this week, has already been viewed more than five million times. (across various platforms). Of course, it didn’t hurt that the video — directed by Lesley… Read More…