Bill Gates-owned Corbis faces $12.75M in damages in fraud case Corbis, the digital image company owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, must pay $12.75 million in damages as part of… Read More
Photo of the day: Gates and Buffett play ping pong Now, here’s a pairing we’d love to see at GeekWire’s upcoming ping-pong tournament. At the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting earlier… Read More
A ‘TB breathalyzer’ and other wild ideas backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced more than 100 winners of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, an effort whereby the… Read More
Bill Gates: ‘Cheap energy is like a fantastic vaccine’ Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is back in the news, talking about the importance of nuclear power. And while the software… Read More
Corbis CEO Gary Shenk explains why they’re excited about music licensing We were pretty intrigued with the idea of GreenLight Music — the new digital music licensing business from Seattle-based Corbis… Read More
How this design geek’s toilet analogy fell flat in a 2003 pitch to Bill Gates We love hearing old stories about how Bill Gates operated at Microsoft, in part because the software titan has reshaped… Read More
Q&A: Ray Ozzie on startups, Microsoft, and what he’s dreaming up next [Updated with video above] Our opening conversation at the GeekWire Summit featured Ray Ozzie, the online collaboration pioneer and former… Read More
Bill Gates-owned Corbis unveils an ‘iTunes for music licensing’ with GreenLight Music Corbis may be best known for licensing digital images. But the Seattle company, started by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in… Read More
Gates is No. 2 in new daily ranking of world’s billionaires, Zuckerberg doesn’t make the list Not content with waiting six months or a year to find out who the world’s richest people are? Bloomberg is… Read More
Quotes of the week: Seattle is a ‘red dwarf’ and Silicon Valley is the sun The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week … “I think there are great investors and great… Read More
What blows Bill Gates’ mind about U.S. education — and not in a good way One of the cool things about Bill Gates’ website, The Gates Notes, is the feeling that you’re looking over his… Read More
Classic PC game by Bill Gates makes comeback on iPhone It might be hard to believe nowadays, but there was a time when Bill Gates himself was writing the software… Read More
Chatting with Bill Gates, and your chance to quiz him today I got a chance to talk with Bill Gates for just a few moments last night at an event previewing… Read More
Top 10 stories: Remembering Arfa; Bill Gates on Steve Jobs; and more There was no shortage of news on the technology beat during the month of January, one of the reasons that… Read More
From film festivals to art museums, Paul Allen’s giving has a distinctive local flair Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s philanthropic efforts don’t get quite as much attention as the sweeping global health efforts of Bill… Read More
Google vs. your wife, Apple’s piles of cash, rooting for Cozi, and other quotes of the week The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “In short, we’ll treat you as a… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Apple’s big quarter, Bill Gates’ legacy, and the world of digital puzzles This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we recap the gigantic quarter posted by Apple, hear Bill Gates… Read More
The Greatest innovators of all time: Edison, Jobs, Zuckerberg (but no Bill Gates?) Maybe Bill Gates needs to burnish his legacy a bit with the kids. A survey released this week asked 1,010… Read More
Video: Bill Gates on his last visit with Steve Jobs The story of Bill Gates’ final visit with Steve Jobs was told in Walter Isaacson’s biography of the Apple co-founder,… Read More
Arfa Karim Randhawa, 1995-2012: Hear her philosophy of life Arfa Karim Randhawa, the computer programming prodigy who became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at 9 years old, has… Read More
Bill Gates as modern-day Batman: Microsoft co-founder saves 5.8M lives (sans Batmobile) The Frugal Dad has created an awesome infographic, detailing the impact that Bill Gates’ philanthropic efforts have had on the… Read More
Bill Gates-owned Corbis buys LA product placement firm Product placements are everywhere, from movies to TV to city buses. Now, Corbis — the Seattle-based digital image company backed… Read More
Ray Ozzie’s new startup has ‘huge goals’ for new era of social communication Ray Ozzie, the Lotus Notes creator who replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft’s chief software architect, lifted the lid just a… Read More
Dear Stanford: Now that your NYC campus isn’t happening, how about Seattle? Dear Stanford, First, we want to express our deepest sympathies about the loss in the Fiesta Bowl last night. It… Read More
Not so smart anymore: Microsoft’s watches are done Microsoft’s Smart Personal Object Technology, also known as SPOT, was originally unveiled by Bill Gates a decade ago. It was… Read More
Year in Review: The 100 most popular stories on GeekWire Whoa, can we catch our breath now? We’ve certainly had plenty to cover on the tech beat over the past… Read More
Morning Radar: Steve Jobs is ‘most fascinating’ of 2011; Cheezburger’s latest; Big Fish; Wetpaint and more A quick rundown of stories and offbeat tidbits catching our attention this morning … Pet and animal lovers can now get… Read More
Newsmakers 2011: Melinda Gates, ‘impatient optimist’ Sure, Bill Gates may get more attention, but Melinda Gates is the one who deserves the newsmaker title this year… Read More
Gates spars with lawyer over Windows 95, jurors yawn It must have pretty exciting for jurors in Salt Lake City to see Bill Gates arrive to testify in Novell’s… Read More
Bill Gates takes stand to testify in Windows 95 antitrust case Well, it’s actually happening. Bill Gates has taken the witness stand in Salt Lake City, Utah, this morning to testify… Read More
