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Bill Gates to meet with President Trump again and here’s what could be on the agenda

Bill Gates will meet with President Trump again on Monday, just a few months after meeting with the then-president-elect to… Read More

ResearchGate reports $52 million funding round, including cash from Bill Gates

Berlin-based ResearchGate, a LinkedIn-type site for scientists, today revealed that it has received $52.6 million from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and a… Read More

Bill Gates on Trump, the definition of success, his favorite sandwich, and other Reddit AMA highlights

Bill Gates is one of the most recognizable symbols of success in the modern world. So how does Bill Gates,… Read More

Tax the robots! Bill Gates on why even automation should be held to this human requirement

If robots and automation are ultimately going to replace more and more American jobs, Bill Gates, for one, thinks we shouldn’t… Read More

Podcast

Full Interview: Bill Gates on global health, clean energy, Trump, Microsoft and the future of the world

Nearly a decade after leaving his full-time job at Microsoft, Bill Gates sat down with GeekWire for an extensive interview… Read More

Video Highlights: Inside the world of Bill Gates, nearly a decade after he left Microsoft

Nearly a decade ago, in 2008, Bill Gates stepped down from his day-to-day role at Microsoft. A daily newspaper reporter… Read More

Championed by Bill Gates, innovative autopsies could unlock mystery of early childhood deaths

Aid organizations and public health agencies are spending billions of dollars each year to save the lives of babies and… Read More

Bill Gates is still mixing it up at Microsoft in his spare time: ‘I love what’s going on there — it’s fun’

It has been nearly a decade since Bill Gates left his day-to-day role at Microsoft, but he still has a… Read More

What Bill and Melinda Gates are doing with Warren Buffett’s $30 billion, a decade after historic gift

“It was the biggest single gift anyone ever gave anybody for anything.” That’s how Bill and Melinda Gates describe Warren… Read More

Interview: Why Bill Gates is still optimistic about the world, and what he wants from President Trump

If the world were a PC operating system, some of us would probably be ready to reboot. You know, just to… Read More

The remarkable life and legacy of Ric Weiland, Microsoft employee No. 2, still making an impact a decade after his death

Ric Weiland — Microsoft’s employee No. 2 — was a tech geek to the core. In the summer of 1969,… Read More

Gates Foundation is giving $279M to help UW study global population health, the largest private donation in university history

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded the University of Washington a $279 million grant, distributed over the next… Read More

Gates Foundation and partners launch $1B coalition to ‘outsmart epidemics’ with vaccines

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is joining with the Wellcome Trust and the governments of Germany, Japan and Norway… Read More

Eight richest men, including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, have same wealth as 3.6B of world’s poorest

Eight men own just as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the… Read More

Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures attempt to patent a high-tech football helmet

Bill Gates wants to help improve the safety of football players. The Microsoft co-founder is listed on a recently-filed patent… Read More

UW president lands on Bill Gates’ list of 5 ‘fanatics’ who inspired him in 2016

An educator, a nerd farmer, a former president: these are a few of Bill Gates’ favorite things. As the holidays… Read More

Reddit user gets Bill Gates as her Secret Santa, and she’s ‘blown away’ by the awesome gifts he sent

When it comes to Secret Santas, having yours be one of the richest people in the world and and also a… Read More

Bill Gates meets with Donald Trump, says president-elect can be like JFK on innovation

Bill Gates is making the rounds to promote his new $1 billion venture fund for cutting-edge energy technologies, and one of the… Read More

Obama: Bill Gates-led $1B Breakthrough Energy fund is a ‘smart investment’ and good for planet

President Obama, or at least his Twitter account, weighed in overnight on the news that Bill Gates and more than… Read More

Bill Gates, Jack Ma and others form $1B venture fund to invest in cutting-edge energy technologies

Bill Gates and other technology industry leaders have established a $1 billion venture fund to invest in companies developing cutting-edge energy… Read More

Lifestyles of the rich and geeky: Trulia pops quick quiz on tech elites and their real estate

You might have to be a tech zillionaire to be able to afford to live in cities like Seattle and… Read More

Bill Gates reveals the 5 best books he read in 2016

To say Bill Gates is a voracious reader is an understatement. The Microsoft co-founder has been gobbling up books of all… Read More

Microsoft holds annual meeting, minus Gates and Ballmer, after big year for company stock

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Microsoft is holding its annual shareholders meeting here this morning, and it’s notable in part because of… Read More

High praise, and a joke, as President Obama awards Bill and Melinda Gates with Medal of Freedom

Bill and Melinda Gates were awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony at The White House on… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates ‘deeply humbled’ to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom for foundation work

Bill and Melinda Gates have been selected to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — by… Read More

Bill Gates tests ‘poop perfume’ as he sniffs out another solution to the world’s sanitation problems

Bill Gates’ business sense has a lot to do with why he is who he is, but it’s the billionaire… Read More

Microsoft joins Linux Foundation in another step toward greater openness

Microsoft is taking increasingly bolder steps toward the openness it has embraced under CEO Satya Nadella, announcing today that it’s joining the… Read More

Ex-Microsoft exec’s startup Telo lands $2.2M in quest to shake up the online messaging industry

Telo, a messaging startup led by former Microsoft executive and distinguished scientist Anoop Gupta, has raised $2.2 million in funding in its pursuit… Read More

‘Geekiest game in town’: Bill Gates joins world’s best bridge players for global online tournament

In a small room off the lobby of Seattle’s Silver Cloud Hotel, some of the world’s best bridge players assembled… Read More

Why former Microsoft execs Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen are spending $525K on a state Supreme Court race

Something rare and historic is happening to Washington state’s Supreme Court. An unprecedented number of incumbent seats (three to be… Read More