Bill Gates spending ‘much bigger slice of time’ at Microsoft amid CEO transition No, Bill Gates says he isn’t returning as Microsoft CEO. But he is spending much more time at Microsoft these… Read More
Big History: Bill Gates wants you to take his ‘favorite course of all time’ for free online Ever want to learn like Bill Gates? Now you can. Bill Gates announced today that the course Big History is now available… Read More
Soon, you’ll be able to learn to code from Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg Ever wonder what it’s like for Bill Gates to teach you programming? Well, you’ll be able to get the answer… Read More
The billionaire buffer: How Mark Zuckerberg is following Bill Gates’ lead in real estate Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are both Harvard dropouts who climbed to the top of the technology world. And it… Read More
Beyond his years: Teen game company founder Nikhil Khanna debuts his second mobile title Nikhil Khanna impressed us last year, building an iPhone game and creating a company in just two months with $600. Now… Read More
Bill Gates’ mistake; Comcast X1; iOS debuts; and other top posts of the month Autumn is officially here. How do we know? Well, of course there’s the rain. But, as GeekWire Chief Business Officer… Read More
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
