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Bill Gates

Bill Gates

In Reddit AMA, Bill Gates talks crypto currency danger, the presidency, drinking beer and more

Bill Gates returned to Reddit Tuesday for his sixth Ask Me Anything (AMA), and as always the questions for the… Read More

Don’t shop with Bill Gates: Software mogul appears on ‘Ellen,’ badly flunks grocery price quiz

Bill Gates may be one of the richest men on the planet, but don’t hit the grocery aisles with the… Read More

Bill Gates to guest star on ‘The Big Bang Theory’

It’s only taken eleven seasons, but Leonard and Sheldon may finally get to meet Bill Gates. Warner Bros. and CBS,… Read More

Gates chat

Bill and Melinda Gates join Lin-Manuel Miranda to talk ‘Hamilton,’ global health, AI and more

Bill and Melinda Gates answered “10 tough questions” in their annual letter, released Tuesday morning. Later in the day, they… Read More

Bill Gates warns tech giants that a government crackdown may be in their future

Bill Gates believes the world’s biggest tech companies are “absolutely” behaving in a manner that risks major government intervention. The… Read More

How Andrew Carnegie set the stage for Bill Gates to give away his fortune, altering philanthropy forever

Bill Gates made his money in software, Andrew Carnegie in steel. And while roughly a century separates these two hard-charging… Read More

Bill Gates stars in new Code.org ‘How Computers Work’ video series to run on Alaska Airlines flights

The next time you fly, you may be able to learn more about the laptop or other computing device you… Read More

Gates tennis

Bill Gates and Roger Federer will play tennis again to raise money for charity, this time in the Bay Area

It’s Bill Gates vs. Roger Federer, round two. The Microsoft co-founder and tennis legend are getting together on the court… Read More

Jeff Bezos at Museum of Flight

Jeff Bezos’ net worth tops $105 billion as Amazon founder declared richest person in history

Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon in 1994 as a small online retailer, has been named the richest person in history,… Read More

TIME magazine

Bill Gates brings his optimistic viewpoint as first guest editor in TIME magazine’s 94 years

 Bill Gates is a big-time reader, as we’ve previously noted. But this week we get to see what kind… Read More

Watch: Bezos, Bertha, and more video highlights from an epic year at GeekWire

2017 was one for the history books, and GeekWire captured many major moments and milestones on camera this past year.… Read More

Reddit Gifts Santa

Cat treats! Bill Gates strikes again as Reddit Santa, surprising feline fanatic with giant box of goodies

Well isn’t this just purrfect. Everyone’s favorite secret billionaire Santa, Bill Gates, has made the holiday extra special yet again… Read More

Podcast

An ‘awesome year’? Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann has a radical view on 2017

It would be easy for Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to look back on 2017… Read More

No more stealing computer time: Bill Gates marks key milestone for UW computer science expansion

Bill Gates is helping to expand access to computer science at the same university where he and Microsoft co-founder Paul… Read More

Bill Gates

Bill Gates wants you to curl up by the fireplace with these five amazing books he read in 2017

Bill Gates travels the world to all sorts of exotic places and probably gets to meet with pretty much anyone… Read More

Melinda Gates

Melinda Gates dishes on the family rule that ensures she’s not the last one in the kitchen

If you live in or have visited Seattle, and have had access to a boat, perhaps you’ve done the float-past-Bill-Gates’-house… Read More

Microsoft plans to knock down and rebuild original Redmond campus, creating room for 8K more workers in historic redevelopment project

Microsoft plans to tear down a dozen of the iconic original buildings at the heart of its 500-acre headquarters in… Read More

Bill Gates-backed startup Sunlight Payments helps track grant money for philanthropic projects

It can be a tough task to ensure that grants and charity funds get into the right hands, and show… Read More

Bill Gates linked to $80M property deal to build a smart city in Arizona

Bill Gates is apparently joining the ranks of technologists who want to build a better city. One of his investment… Read More

Bill Gates commits $100 million to fight Alzheimer’s

Bill Gates has invested billions of his personal wealth to fight polio, malaria and other devastating diseases in the emerging… Read More

The mind-blowing wealth of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett now exceeds the bottom half of the entire U.S. population, new report finds

A new report released this week titled Billionaire Bonanza points out the growing divide in the U.S. among the super… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates

It’s Bill Gates’ birthday, and as usual, his wife Melinda shared the best picture on Instagram

Throwback photos of Bill Gates are the gift that keeps on giving. The billionaire Microsoft co-founder turned 62 on Saturday… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Amazon stock surges 13% after earnings report, making Jeff Bezos the world’s richest again

Amazon stock is soaring Friday morning after crushing earnings expectations and disclosing that it now employs more than 540,000 people… Read More

Univ. of Washington names new computer science building after Bill & Melinda Gates

Before they launched Microsoft and changed the personal computing world forever, Bill Gates and Paul Allen spent their teenage years… Read More

Satya Nadella
Podcast

Week in Geek Podcast: Satya Nadella’s new book, Twitter goes to 280, and our trip to Microsoft’s mysterious new office

For anyone curious about the inner workings of Microsoft, Satya Nadella’s new book, “Hit Refresh,” is an interesting read. The… Read More

How Bill Gates used his ‘favorite chart of all time’ to battle Trump’s proposed foreign aid cuts

As any geek will tell you, nothing beats a good chart — and as the founder of Microsoft and one… Read More

Bill Gates calls for more data, foreign aid for global health work amid talks of huge U.S. spending cuts

As federal leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., to propose a slate of tax and spending cuts Wednesday, hundreds of experts… Read More

Satya Nadella

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer among those praising Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s book ‘Hit Refresh’

Plenty of interested readers outside of Microsoft will pick up CEO Satya Nadella’s new book, “Hit Refresh,” to gain some… Read More

Bill Gates says he’s switched to an Android smartphone, ‘with a lot of Microsoft software’

It really is a new era at Microsoft — or maybe it’s a return to the company’s roots. Bill Gates… Read More

Review: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s candid book ‘Hit Refresh’ goes inside the tech giant’s revival

This was my litmus test for Satya Nadella’s new book: Does he write about his Grace Hopper debacle? The answer… Read More

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