It would be easy for Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to look back on 2017 as a year to forget. This year has brought a… Read More
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Tuesday that it has committed $375 million in funding over the next three years to expand access to contraceptives for some of the… Read More
Last year, a coalition of Seattle’s top business and political leaders unveiled a new effort called Challenge Seattle, with a goal of finding new solutions to the region’s traffic problems, and now the… Read More
A former Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation chief digital officer has filed a lawsuit against the organization, claiming he was misled about the scope of his job during his recruitment… Read More
Bill Gates started his Microsoft work when he was 17 years old, and admits that during his earliest years at the tech giant he was “kind of maniacal” because he… Read More
Seattle boasts the fifth strongest life sciences market in the country, according to a new report from Jones Lang LaSalle, led by world-renowned institutions and startups that have grown to… Read More
At Summit Sierra, a personalized learning charter school in Seattle’s International District, students use software to chase their dreams. They set goals for themselves, create week-by-week plans, and track their progress… Read More
Millions of athletes, trainers, and adoring sports fans will fill the streets of Rio today. Champions from around the globe will take to the field, the pool, and the court… Read More
Seattle-based Just Biotherapeutics said Monday it closed a $14 million funding round led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A group of former Amgen scientists founded Just in 2014. The… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding an approach to fighting Zika that relies on giving mosquitos a sexually transmitted disease — and the process starts in a container… Read More
What is it really like to be a woman in tech? On March 29, Town Hall Seattle will host How to Succeed as a Women in Tech with Tarah Wheeler Van… Read More
Melinda Gates joined some highly esteemed company in the latest Forbes‘ list. According to the media giant, the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the third most… Read More
This week the fight against infectious diseases got a big boost from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The organization announced that it is creating the Child Health and Mortality… Read More
The Gates Foundation Visitor Center is holding a Teen Action Fair this weekend to raise awareness and funds to support clean water efforts worldwide. To help communicate that message, the… Read More
It’s no secret that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg hates cigarettes. He passed some of the most aggressive laws and tax increases to curtail smoking in NYC. Now Bill… Read More
This is a funny how-we-got-together story: Melinda Gates turned Bill Gates down the first time he asked her out. In a video interview that AOL’s Makers did with Melinda, she… Read More
At times, the coolest technology isn’t the bright-shiny object that glares at you demanding recognition of its awesomeness. It’s the type that quietly and discreetly makes your life easier. Even… Read More
Bill Gates has poured millions of dollars into public education reform in the U.S., and some teachers aren’t too thrilled about that. About 150 instructors from the Badass Teacher Association marched through… Read More
Bill and Melinda Gates told Stanford students at commencement yesterday that they should bring the school’s innovative spirit with them into the working world, but they shouldn’t lose sight of social… Read More
While the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has devoted significant time and effort to help eradicate diseases from the developing world, there’s one problem: Doing so often requires immunization, which relies… Read More
Six new grantees from India have joined the ranks of people who the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes could change the future of toilets, the Seattle-based non-profit announced today.… Read More
Bill Gates is no great fan of the “almost laughable” idea that America has nowhere to go but down. “The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it… Read More
When Bill Gates took to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the Microsoft co-founder was really interested in getting the word out about GatesLetter.com, which is hosting the Gates Foundation’s annual… Read More
Bill Gates was on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon for two segments last night talking about the 2014 Gates Annual Letter, in which he and Melinda Gates debunk three of… Read More
For the past three years, not a single person in India has been diagnosed with polio. The country is now officially polio-free — an extremely impressive achievement when you consider India’s recent… Read More
Thanks to a team at the University of West England, Bristol, it may be possible to power a cell phone with pee sometime in the near future, with help from… Read More
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that it has found its next chief executive: Susan Desmond-Hellman, who is currently serving as the Chancellor of the University of California… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Mark Zuckerberg’s Startup:Education initiative have led a $9 million funding round for EducationSuperHighway (ESH), a non-profit organization that aims to help schools get… Read More
Getting involved with dead-tree publishing seems to be the thing to do if you’re a tech billionaire from Seattle. While Bill Gates didn’t out-and-out buy Wired like Jeff Bezos did with… Read More
Bill Gates suddenly has another CEO position to fill. Jeff Raikes, the 55-year-old CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is retiring after five years in the role with the… Read More