Articles about Bill Gates – Page 25 of 26

Bill Gates still richest in U.S., but Jeff Bezos is climbing the charts

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates held on to his title as richest American with a net worth of $59 billion, marking… Read More

Microsoft, Bill Gates patent ‘virtual entertainment,’ with belt

A patent awarded to Microsoft this morning, with Bill Gates listed as one of the inventors, will sound familiar to… Read More

Conan O’Brien tests the limits of Bill Gates’ charity … and other quotes of the week

The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “Just tried to donate to the @GatesFoundation.… Read More

What Apple can learn from Microsoft in the Post-Jobs Era

The resignation of Steve Jobs as Apple’s CEO today starts a new era for the company, and as we all… Read More

Five weird (and wacky) pursuits of rich tech moguls

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” That line from F. Scott… Read More

Ben Huh and Bill Gates among GQ’s 15 worst-dressed in tech

Here’s an honor that two prominent Seattle geeks might not want to add to their résumés. Cheezburger Network founder Ben… Read More

Chart: Here’s how Bill Gates is giving away his billions

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has pledged to give away the vast majority of his money. But how is the billionaire… Read More

Bill’s Book Club: Twenty books Bill Gates has been reading

Look out, Oprah: A new Books section of Bill Gates’ website, The Gates Notes, offers a glimpse of some of… Read More

Nerd Notes: McGinn loves the Leaf; Tomato Battle in Seattle; Comcast bans a data hog; and much more

•Mike McGinn is going electric. The Seattle Mayor today announced that the city has added five new Nissan Leaf electric… Read More

Microsoft board member says group is no rubber stamp

Microsoft’s board of directors has been under increasing scrutiny lately amid renewed calls for CEO Steve Ballmer to step down.… Read More

Nerd Notes: App for Atlantis, better title for Jobs bio, and some pi in the face for Google

Google reportedly decided to have some fun with the bidding for Nortel’s coveted patent portfolio last week — throwing out… Read More

Microsoft doesn’t need to replace Ballmer as much as it needs to replace Gates

Commentary: With his booming voice and boundless optimism, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the technology industry’s version of a head… Read More

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation bankroll project to turn ‘fecal sludge’ into biodiesel

An environmental engineering professor at Columbia University has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation… Read More

Clarian trumps Bill Gates with rotary-piston hybrid battery

Bill Gates and inventors connected to Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures made headlines two years ago with a patent application for… Read More

Bill Gates big on digital reading, voice recognition, ubiquitous screens

The Daily Mail of London’s Live magazine published an interesting and at times insightful interview with Bill Gates over the weekend. The purpose… Read More

U2 crowd: Find yourself in this crazy high-def image

If you were one of the many thousands of people at U2’s Seattle concert at Qwest Field this weekend, the… Read More

Bono’s shout out to Bill Gates: Thanks for your passion, your brain power (and your cash)

More than 70,000 people turned out Saturday night for the U2 concert at Seattle’s Qwest Field, listening as Bono belted… Read More

Video: Bill Gates wrote the checks, and Melinda drove the vision for foundation campus

Bill Gates may have written the checks for his foundation’s beautiful new $500 million campus in the heart of Seattle.… Read More

Inside look at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s new Seattle HQ

It spans 12 acres in the heart of the city, just a stone’s throw from The Seattle Center where the… Read More

Now leaving: The guy who led Microsoft’s iPad rival … years before the iPad existed

Long before Apple introduced the iPad, Otto Berkes and his team at Microsoft were working on devices called UltraMobile PCs… Read More

Comments of the week: Ballmer at USC, Gates on the BBC, etc.

Microsoft’s top brass took some heat in the GeekWire comment threads this past week, with readers complaining about everything from… Read More

Microsoft CEO Summit: Corporate titans huddle in Redmond, quietly

The top executives of Wal-Mart, Xerox, Procter & Gamble, Geico, Berkshire Hathaway, Costco, JP Morgan Chase, Ford and more than… Read More

Excerpt: BBC host grills Bill Gates on Microsoft’s prospects

Well, on a program called “Hard Talk,” it only makes sense that host Stephen Sackur didn’t accept Bill Gates’ standard… Read More

Bill Gates a ‘strong proponent’ of Microsoft’s Skype deal

There was no boardroom brawl in Redmond over Microsoft’s proposed $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, at least not between Bill… Read More

What do you think of the Smithsonian’s new Bill & Melinda Gates portrait?

The National Portait Gallery in Washington D.C. features some of the country’s most influential Americans, from Abraham Lincoln to Martin… Read More

Lakeside leads the charge for elite new ‘Global Online Academy’

In her role as the board chair of Lakeside School, Connie Ballmer announced that the Seattle institution is teaming up… Read More

Bill Gates touts nuclear energy, says coal kills more people

Nuclear energy can be made safe in part through advanced computer simulation and next-generation power plant designs, according to Microsoft… Read More

Idea Man? Ex-Microsoft geek reviews Paul Allen’s memoir

Guest Commentary: I want to thank Paul Allen for writing his memoirs. It’s great to hear the story of the… Read More

Bill Gates pledges $20M to support game-based learning

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $20 million to support new “game-based learning applications” in math, English and… Read More

Paul Allen, like you’ve never heard him before

It was a privilege, and a ton of fun, to get to interview Paul Allen on stage about his new… Read More