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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

‘Slut factories’ and Super PACs: Melinda Gates on ‘Colbert’

Did Stephen Colbert just get away with calling the Gates Foundation a ‘slut factory?’ Last night the cantankerous faux right-winger… Read More

Gates: Tablets in the classroom won’t work without keyboard

Will Microsoft’s Surface tablet computer be better for students than the iPad? Bill Gates didn’t say that explicitly, but he… Read More

Gates, Jobs, Google or Dorsey: Which of these comic books about tech CEOs would you want to read?

Blue Water Productions is rolling out a new comic book line, featuring the of legends of the tech industry. The… Read More

Malcolm Gladwell: In 50 years, Bill Gates will be revered and Steve Jobs will be forgotten

In a recent appearance at the Toronto Public Library’s Appel Salon, author Malcolm Gladwell provided some fascinating remarks about the role… Read More

MIT spinout Liquid Metal Battery lands $15M from Bill Gates, others

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation, an MIT spin out that’s developing new technologies for electricity storage, has raised $15 million in funding… Read More

On the auction block: Bill Gates’ old Porsche 911

Does a Bill Gates pedigree command a premium in the market for classic cars? Over the years I’ve spent more… Read More