Review: Paul Allen’s new book isn’t mean, it’s just honest I’ve just finished reading an advance copy of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s memoir, “Idea Man,” due out Tuesday. You know,… Read More
Videos: Lesley Stahl grills Paul Allen about Bill Gates, and GeekWire about Allen Screaming matches. Dumpster diving. And a deep bond between two super geeks from Seattle. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen provided a… Read More
Paul Allen on 60 Minutes: Book about history, not revenge against Bill Gates OK, we can finally let you in on a secret we’ve been keeping here at GeekWire: A “60 Minutes” crew… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Allen vs. Gates, Amazon Cloud Drive, Giant Thinkwell +1 This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a strange week in tech news, including our first glimpse of Paul… Read More
Report: Paul Allen book has ‘created a rift’ with Bill Gates In telling the story of his early days with Bill Gates, a new memoir by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen appears… Read More
Bill Gates and Paul Allen: The raw truth, as told by Allen The first excerpt from Paul Allen’s upcoming memoir, Idea Man, was published online by Vanity Fair tonight. After reading it,… Read More
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
