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Is Bill Gates the problem? Report says three big shareholders want him out as Microsoft chairman

Reuters is making waves tonight with a report that three of Microsoft’s top investors want Bill Gates to step… Read More

Bill Gates invests in power grid networking company Varentec

Bill Gates, along with Khosla Ventures, has invested over $8 million as part of a Series B funding round for a… Read More

The rest of the story: Control-Alt-Delete inventor didn’t expect it to be widely used

A story about computing history took the Internet by storm this week after Bill Gates told a Harvard University audience… Read More

Finally: Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake

Bill Gates made many exceptional decisions while he was leading Microsoft to immense success. He did, however, make a few… Read More

Extra-double confirmation: Bill Gates not returning as Microsoft CEO

When asked, a number of top tech executives have said that Bill Gates sure seems like the man for the… Read More

Bill Gates tops Forbes list of richest Americans for 20th straight year

The new Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans is out this morning, with a familiar face at the top:… Read More

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Bill Gates needs to come back to Microsoft and fire some people

SAN FRANCISCO — When Michael Arrington asked Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff who the next CEO of Microsoft should be on… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Microsoft + Nokia, new Kindle Paperwhite, and the future of satellite broadband

There’s a lot to talk about on this week’s GeekWire radio show, including Microsoft’s $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone… Read More

How Bill Gates and Google are linked via O3B’s satellite broadband deal with Kymeta

Bill Gates doesn’t always see eye-to-eye with Google on the topic of spreading Internet connectivity around the world — recently… Read More

Intellectual Ventures spinout Evolv gets $11.8M from Bill Gates and others, aims to transform security scanning

Intellectual Ventures this morning announced a new spinout company, Evolv, that has landed $11.8 million in funding from investors including… Read More

Melinda Gates now has a comic book about her life

Up until now, Bill Gates was likely the only member of his family to have a comic book written about… Read More

Ballmer’s exit: New questions about Microsoft’s explanation

To fully grasp the significance of Steve Ballmer’s retirement announcement, first go back to 2008, when the Microsoft CEO told… Read More

Bill Gates invests in program to help teachers discover and share education technology

There are all kinds of geeky ways teachers can use technology to help their students perform better and learn more.… Read More

Bill Gates on Google’s Internet balloons; Contour hits the wall; and other comments of the week

The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “The Internet is transforming almost every element of the… Read More

Bill Gates pops Google’s internet balloons, says he won’t be investing in space

Bill Gates does not have high hopes for Google’s plan to provide Internet access to the developing world through a… Read More

Geek on the Street: Would you rather go on a date with Bezos, Gates or Zuckerberg?

Whether you’re interested in their tech empires, computer-savvy minds, or dashing looks, it would be hard to pass up a… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Bill Gates on tech, philanthropy, robots, and why you don’t want be a billionaire

This week on the GeekWire radio show, we’re listening back to highlights from Bill Gates’ recent public appearance in Redmond… Read More

Here’s the obscure book that Bill Gates is gushing about this summer

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is a voracious reader, carrying a tote bag of books on his travels across the globe.… Read More

Bill Gates is helping turn your poop into drinking water

Drinking our own poop is not healthy. But when you take human waste, heat the crap out of it —… Read More

Bill Gates at Microsoft: Watch his entire talk here

Bill Gates made a rare public appearance back at Microsoft, his old stomping grounds, earlier today for the opening keynote… Read More

Return of Microsoft Bob? But seriously, Gates sees new chance for ‘personal agents’

REDMOND — Bill Gates opened his talk at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit today by saying we’ve entered a “golden… Read More

Here are the 8 interesting books Bill Gates is reading this summer

It’s always fun learning which books are in Bill Gates’ giant tote bag of old-fashioned books he lugs around, and… Read More

Bill Gates at Microsoft: Free and commercial software working ‘very well’ together

REDMOND — Here are five words you’d never expect to come out of Bill Gates’ mouth: “Thank God for free… Read More

Five years later, Bill Gates back at Microsoft for talk today

REDMOND — Bill Gates has made public appearances at Microsoft relatively rarely since leaving his day-to-day role at the company… Read More

Satellite communications startup Kymeta lands $50M from Bill Gates, others

Kymeta Corp., the satellite communications startup that spun out of Intellectual Ventures, has scored $50 million in venture funding. Backers… Read More

Photos: Bill Gates bought this $8.7 million mansion in Florida’s horse country

Well, we can hardly imagine software pioneer Bill Gates riding atop a horse. But the tech mogul just reportedly jumped… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold says discussions with Bill Gates ‘completely irrelevant’ in patent spat, claims he’s too busy to testify

As CEO of Intellectual Ventures, international traveler and cooking guru, Nathan Myhrvold is a busy man. So busy, in fact, that… Read More

Bill Gates: ‘My dad is the man I aspire to be’

Normally, Bill Gates focuses his blog posts on work he’s doing or books he’s reading. For Father’s Day, though, he… Read More

Bill Gates’ first post on LinkedIn: ‘3 things I’ve learned from Warren Buffett’

Learning the game of bridge isn’t the only thing Warren Buffet has taught Bill Gates. In Gates’ first-ever post on LinkedIn titled… Read More

Bill Gates leads $35M round to help make science research more accessible

Bill Gates has put in a lot of time and effort to help eradicate some of the world’s most-deadly diseases,… Read More