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Bill Gates to increase Malaria funding by 30 percent

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Sunday that he plans to boost his foundation’s funding for malaria research and eradication by… Read More

Rediscovering photography, and recapturing a life, in a lost picture of Bill Gates and Paul Allen

How long would you gaze at a photo in 1970 versus today? Has our attention for a single photo been… Read More

Bill Gates buys California horse ranch from Jenny Craig for $18 million

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates paid $18 million for a 229-acre horse ranch just north of San Diego. The ranch, known… Read More

When your next meeting is with Bill Gates

What would you be doing an hour before a conversation with the second richest person in the world? Jennifer Tang… Read More

Microsoft board shakeup continues: Two more directors depart, as Kraft and Visa execs join

Microsoft’s board of directors continued its radical transformation on Tuesday under new CEO Satya Nadella. The company announced that two… Read More

Climate change: Bill Gates, Hank Paulson and Nathan Myhrvold diagnose our dysfunction

It was a combo you don’t see every day: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, and… Read More

The Seattle freeze is real; the geekiest bicycle in the world; and other top posts of the month

Wow, what happened to the summer? It’s already Labor Day, and the dog days of summer have simply slipped away.… Read More

Bill & Melinda Gates give $1M to gun law; Nick Hanauer pours in another $1M

Bill & Melinda Gates had already donated $50,000 to the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, a coalition that wants to require background checks… Read More

Microsoft’s board: New blood could mean new approach

Steve Ballmer’s resignation from the Microsoft board this week is the latest change for a group that has experienced a major… Read More

Epic: Bill Gates geeks out on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Lots of big-time tech execs have been taking the “Ice Bucket Challenge” this week, dumping buckets of cold water over… Read More

Bill Gates recommends you read these 6 books this summer

Bill Gates is back with another reading list for those of you looking for some good books to enjoy this summer.… Read More

Funded by Bill Gates, this remote-controlled contraceptive chip could be available in 2018

Imagine pushing a button on a remote control and having a computer chip disperse a hormonal birth control drug through your… Read More

Bill Gates: Eradicating polio easier than fixing U.S. education system

Fixing the U.S. education system is harder than eradicating some of the world’s worst diseases. That’s what Bill Gates said on… Read More

Teachers protest in downtown Seattle, say Bill Gates is ruining education

Bill Gates has poured millions of dollars into public education reform in the U.S., and some teachers aren’t too thrilled about… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates tell Stanford grads to seek social good, not just financial gain

Bill and Melinda Gates told Stanford students at commencement yesterday that they should bring the school’s innovative spirit with them into… Read More

These Bill Gates-funded ‘super bananas’ could have a huge impact on global health

A grant of nearly $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation could revolutionize the lowly banana, turning the… Read More

Map: These billionaires could buy every single home in these 10 U.S. cities

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates could buy all of the homes in Boston. Amazon.com CEO could do the same in Napa,… Read More

Trim those trees! Why Bill Gates and friends want to put accelerometers on power lines

Accelerometers have become a common part of the sensor arrays on smartphones and other devices, but a group that includes… Read More

Bill Gates ‘absolutely’ supports spinning off Xbox biz, but Microsoft committed to gaming unit

Bill Gates may have voiced support for selling off Microsoft’s Xbox business, but the Redmond giant is making sure customers understand… Read More

Milestone: Bill Gates no longer Microsoft’s largest shareholder, as shares dip below Ballmer’s stake

For the first time in Microsoft’s history, Bill Gates is no longer the company’s largest individual shareholder, as of this… Read More

‘A real inventor’: UW’s Gary Kildall, father of the PC operating system, honored for key work

Growing up in California, Scott Kildall and his sister Kristin knew that their dad, Gary, was working on important things… Read More

Gates-backed inBloom winding down after non-profit faces concerns over privacy

InBloom, which was backed by $100 million from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, is closing up shop after… Read More

Bill Gates vs. Google Glass: Pending patent would thwart video snooping

Google is offering its Google Glass for sale to the public for the first time today, in a limited-time promotion.… Read More

Watch: Bill Gates picks his 13 favorite TED talks

Polio. Data. Education. These are all interests of Bill Gates, so it was no surprise to see the topics appear… Read More

What Bill Gates thinks about Zuck, WhatsApp, development and God

Bill Gates is no great fan of the “almost laughable” idea that America has nowhere to go but down. “The… Read More

Bill Gates regains world’s richest title with net worth of $76B

Forbes today released its annual rankings of the world’s richest, and there’s a familiar face back on top. After a… Read More

Here’s a real Bill Gates Windows installation debacle

The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz is stirring up lots of attention with this satire about Bill Gates spending his entire… Read More

Video: New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tells employees, ‘we respect innovation, not tradition’

It’s clear that Microsoft’s new leader wants to focus on mobile and the cloud. The Redmond software giant just posted… Read More

Video: GeekWire’s take on Microsoft’s big leadership changes

It’s a historic day at Microsoft: Satya Nadella is in as CEO, Steve Ballmer is officially retired and Bill Gates… Read More

BillG is back: Gates will spend a third of time at Microsoft, ‘substantially increasing’ role

https://youtu.be/M5BhQVuRcTk We can almost hear it now, echoing through Microsoft’s Redmond campus: “That is the stupidest f-ing thing I’ve ever… Read More