Myhrvold firm: Japan crisis shouldn’t deter next-gen nukes Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based patent firm and invention house run by former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold, says in a… Read More
Bill Gates: What technology (and baseball) can teach schools The challenges facing the U.S. education system may seem intractable, at times, but schools looking for inspiration could do worse… Read More
Bill Gates on Philanthropy: A How-To Guide for Techies For many years, technology executives would crowd into conference halls to listen to Bill Gates, hoping to glean some insight… Read More
Microsoft’s IPO, 25 years ago, and what happened after that It was 25 years ago today — March 13, 1986 — that a personal-computer software company named Microsoft Corporation sold… Read More
Ballmer slips to No. 46 on Forbes list; Gates steady at No. 2 Bill Gates’ investments in the Mexican stock market helped to increase his estimated wealth by $3 billion, to $56 billion,… Read More
Bill Gates gives away fortune, no longer richest man, or is he? I drove by the new campus for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Sunday afternoon, and I was absolutely… Read More
