Khan Academy’s Salman Khan on startups, technology and why he uses Windows Salman Khan is known for his educational videos, and his Khan Academy is a non-profit venture, but he has all… Read More
A big win for BC: Annual TED conference headed to Vancouver TED is heading north of the border. To mark the organization’s 30th anniversary, it just announced today that it plans… Read More
Bill Gates says Steve Jobs was “always cooler than me” Steve Jobs may have been “cooler” than Bill Gates, and that’s OK. The Microsoft co-founder and chairman made his first-ever… Read More
Bill Gates’ Annual Letter: How measurement can change the world Bill Gates published his fifth annual letter today and wrote that accurate measurements and clear goals are the keys to improving the… Read More
Bill Gates says you should read these 5 books in 2013 I wish I knew how many books Bill Gates has read in his life. The man inspires me to read… Read More
Bill Gates wants your help to change the world by 2030 Once a year, Bill Gates pens an annual letter that recaps the work being done around the world that’s helping… Read More
Bill Gates backs cancer test startup to create a precise genomic tumor blueprint Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is tossing his support behind a Cambridge, Massachusetts company by the name of Foundation Medicine which… Read More
Bill Gates to keynote SXSWedu conference While much of the tech world’s attention is focused on Las Vegas and the Consumer Electronics Show (and Microsoft’s lack… Read More
Billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos got a lot richer in 2012 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is trying to give away his fortune. But he may have to try a little bit… Read More
GeekWire’s Top 50 Posts of 2012: Milestones, stunts and more craziness from the year in tech It’s that time when journalists take a moment to reflect on the past year. We’re doing that here on GeekWire… Read More
Inspired reading: Bill Gates lists the top ten books of 2012 that made him think Bill Gates is a well-read guy, and it’s been that way for a while. He would check out books from… Read More
Advice from a dropout: Bill Gates says colleges need to fix the graduation problem So you probably would not take advice about college education from a person who dropped out of school — unless,… Read More
Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla and Peter Thiel bankroll energy storage startup LightSail LightSail Energy, a Berkeley, California-based company that’s designing systems to store energy generated by wind and solar power, has landed… Read More
Microsoft founders Allen, Gates reconnect after year-long rift Paul Allen’s memoir, Idea Man, is out in paperback this week, and the Microsoft co-founder has penned an epilogue updating… Read More
Unreal candy is healthy and Bill Gates loves it It’s Halloween, so let’s talk about candy. We all know about the health implications of the sugar-packed, partially hydrogenated sweets… Read More
Two months and $600: Teen entrepreneur shows us how easy it is to start a game company Teenager. Entrepreneur. Programmer. Lakeside School. String ’em together, and you might think of Bill Gates, a Lakeside grad and former… Read More
Microsoft milestone: Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer mark $1 billion in giving (Photos) REDMOND, WASH. — Before he began another exciting week running Microsoft, a young Bill Gates sat down at a Sunday evening… Read More
Zuckerberg’s net worth sinks; Gates remains richest American Oftentimes the leader of a newly public company experiences a substantial increase in net worth, but Facebook’s shrinking share price… Read More
This is the best book Bill Gates read this summer Bill Gates likes to read and share his book recommendations with the rest of us, and this week he revealed… Read More
Bill Nye takes on creationism; Solavei’s cell plan; and other top stories of the month August usually is a quiet time on the tech beat, but not this summer. We were busy keeping tabs on… Read More
Intellectual Ventures: Why haven’t there been more spinoffs? Intellectual Ventures has been in business since 2000, led by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, with a bunch… Read More
Intellectual Ventures spins out satellite broadband antenna company, with Bill Gates as investor Bill Gates is among the investors putting a total of $12 million into a new Seattle-area company, Kymeta, that plans… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Inside the world of an RFID implantee Radio Frequency Identification, better known as RFID, is used in everything from livestock to shipping containers. But what about humans?… Read More
The Carlyle Group gobbles up Getty Images for a cool $3.3B Getty Images, the Seattle distributor of digital images and video, is transitioning from one private equity firm to another. The… Read More
Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet, from the user interface to the back end Speaking to a crowd in Seattle earlier today, Bill Gates sounded at times like he was talking about a technology… Read More
What should Bill Gates read? Our top 5 books for his list A few weeks ago, Bill Gates posted his summer reading list. A self-confessed reading junkie — “sometimes I can get… Read More
MS-DOS wasn’t stolen, new forensic analysis concludes This could be the tech world’s version of a conviction being overturned by new DNA evidence. A forensic analysis conducted… Read More
Bill Gates and Paul Allen: Friendship on the mend? The publication of Paul Allen’s book last year reportedly caused a “rift” with his Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, over Allen’s… Read More
Voracious reader Bill Gates shares his favorite books of the summer Want to get inside the mind of one of the world’s richest men? Just take a look at his bookshelf.… Read More
Bill Gates hints at details of his ongoing Microsoft work Charlie Rose aired a wide-ranging interview with Bill Gates earlier this week, with much of the hour focusing on philanthropy and… Read More
