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
Video: Watch Bill Gates explain how technology is reshaping our world, again This is Bill Gates, coming full circle. During a rare appearance last month on the University of Washington campus —… Read More
Gates: Microsoft’s opportunity ‘stronger than it’s ever been’ Posting from Bellevue: Since leaving his day-to-day executive role at Microsoft, company co-founder Bill Gates has been known not to… Read More
What to expect at Microsoft’s annual meeting this week Microsoft will hold its annual meeting of shareholders Tuesday morning in Bellevue, just down the road from its Redmond headquarters,… Read More
RIP Andy Rooney: A look back at his classic Bill Gates rant It was a tradition in my family each Sunday night to order a Coccia House pizza and watch “60 Minutes.”… Read More
Book smarts vs. street smarts: Which makes the best startup entrepreneurs? (Infographic) Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to start their respective companies, relying on their enormous intellect and… Read More
Gates on Jobs’ zingers: ‘None of that bothers me at all’ What does Bill Gates think about all that biting criticism from Steve Jobs in the biography released after the Apple… Read More
Bill Gates was lucky … and good Was Bill Gates just a lucky upper middle class kid who happened to stumble into the PC revolution? Or was… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Advice from Gates, best movie app ever, and Seattle startup BigOven This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we share a highlight from Bill Gates’ appearance at the University… Read More
Excerpts: Bill Gates on politics, education, and why his burger is same as yours One of the most interesting things about Bill Gates’ appearance at the University of Washington yesterday was the way the… Read More
Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated Bill Gates made a rare appearance at the University of Washington this afternoon, talking about how qualitative and measurable advances… Read More
Isaacson on Gates and Jobs: One guy made the Zune, the other made the iPod A lot has been written and said about the rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs over the past couple… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Steve Jobs bio, Microsoft Store, TechStars, and Pioneer Square’s tech future This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we look ahead to the upcoming Steve Jobs biography, and go… Read More
Jobs: Microsoft ‘mostly irrelevant’ with Ballmer in charge Say this for Steve Jobs: He didn’t sugarcoat things, even in his final days. But the soon-to-be-released biography of the… Read More
TechStars’ plea to Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the other ‘godfathers’ of Seattle tech Andy Sack, the director of TechStars Seattle, is accustomed to critiquing the pitches of entrepreneurs. Now, Sack is doing an… Read More
Video: Melinda Gates on social media and tweeting with Bill Today at the Malaria Summit in downtown Seattle, Melinda Gates met with a group of bloggers to talk about the… Read More
Gates keeps the bar high in push for malaria eradication Addressing the Malaria Forum in downtown Seattle this morning, Bill Gates sounded at times like he was back in the… Read More
Bill Gates slated to testify in Windows 95 antitrust case They say the wheels of justice turn slowly, but this is getting a little crazy. Microsoft has listed Bill Gates… Read More
Bill Gates among mourners at Steve Jobs memorial Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was among a large group of technology executives, Hollywood stars and political figures who attended the… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: iPhone 4S, Xbox TV, and remembering Steve Jobs On this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, we share our thoughts on the passing of Steve Jobs, hear what… Read More
Bill Gates: Working with Jobs was ‘an insanely great honor’ It’s easy to focus on rivalries in the technology industry, and certainly there was no love lost between Steve Jobs… Read More
Andy Rooney targets Bill Gates in 2nd best rant in PC history As much as Andy Rooney might have turned himself into a caricature over the years, he is an iconic crank,… Read More
Microsoft meeting sparks another round of Ballmer bashing Steve Ballmer is taking it on the chin yet again this week, this time for a reportedly uninspired performance at… Read More
Does Google have monopoly power? Watch Eric Schmidt dance around this one The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing yesterday on Google was closely watched for parallels to Microsoft’s antitrust quagmire of the… Read More
An ‘impatient’ Melinda Gates joins Twitter, tops 17,000 followers in a day thanks to Tweet from BillG Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates joined Twitter in January 2010, and has quickly assembled an audience of some 3.5 million followers.… Read More
