Up until now, Bill Gates was likely the only member of his family to have a comic book written about his life. Not anymore. Vancouver, WA.-based Blue Water Productions is back… Read More
There are all kinds of geeky ways teachers can use technology to help their students perform better and learn more. One big problem, however, is that often times instructors either… Read More
Bill Gates does not have high hopes for Google’s plan to provide Internet access to the developing world through a network of balloons. Gates spoke critically of the project in… Read More
Drinking our own poop is not healthy. But when you take human waste, heat the crap out of it — literally — and send it through a super pressure cooker… Read More
Learning the game of bridge isn’t the only thing Warren Buffet has taught Bill Gates. In Gates’ first-ever post on LinkedIn titled “Three Things I’ve Learned from Warren Buffett,” the Microsoft co-founder… Read More
Bill Gates has put in a lot of time and effort to help eradicate some of the world’s most-deadly diseases, so it’s not surprising to find out that he just… Read More
—Online marketing whiz Joanna Lord has left her VP job at SEOmoz to become chief marketing officer at BigDoor, the Seattle gamification startup. In her new role Lord will oversee branding,… Read More
A few months ago, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg announced their plans to team up in the fight to eradicate polio. The goal is not a new one for the… Read More
If there was a single nerdy subtext that Bill Gates brought to his closing keynote at the SXSWedu conference in Austin, it was the importance of data. Useful data. Education… Read More
Bill Gates published his fifth annual letter today and wrote that accurate measurements and clear goals are the keys to improving the lives of poor people around the world. Gates’ letter highlights… Read More
Once a year, Bill Gates pens an annual letter that recaps the work being done around the world that’s helping the less fortunate. Before his 2013 words come out next… Read More
While much of the tech world’s attention is focused on Las Vegas and the Consumer Electronics Show (and Microsoft’s lack of a keynote or exhibit space), the upcoming SXSWedu conference… Read More
Do you remember hitting ye olde campus bookstore back in your college days and getting sticker-shock from the final tally on your books? Yep, it’s expensive. Educational nonprofit 20 Million… Read More
Speaking to a crowd in Seattle earlier today, Bill Gates sounded at times like he was talking about a technology product in desperate need of an upgrade. Actually, he was.… Read More
A few weeks ago, Bill Gates posted his summer reading list. A self-confessed reading junkie — “sometimes I can get in as much as a book a day” — poking… Read More
Did Stephen Colbert just get away with calling the Gates Foundation a ‘slut factory?’ Last night the cantankerous faux right-winger took aim at Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill &… Read More
A weekend shooting near Seattle Center damaged windows at the headquarters of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Seattle Police Department says. No one was injured, and the Gates… Read More
I got a chance to talk with Bill Gates for just a few moments last night at an event previewing the new Visitor Center at the Bill & Melinda Gates… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation opens its new Visitor Center in Seattle starting this weekend, giving the philanthropy a new opportunity to inform and engage the public in its… Read More
Guest Post: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is hosting a number of events today in anticipation of the opening of the philanthropy’s new public visitor center. Social media, and media… Read More
In the Seattle area there is a powerhouse co-founded by Bill Gates, dedicated to using advances in technology to change education. And then there is Microsoft. The Bill and Melinda… Read More
Sure, Bill Gates may get more attention, but Melinda Gates is the one who deserves the newsmaker title this year — making a mark in a variety of ways in… Read More
The folks over at Startup Weekend continue to pull in key partnerships as they look to spread the gospel of entrepreneurship throughout the world. After recently inking deals with the… Read More
One of the most interesting things about Bill Gates’ appearance at the University of Washington yesterday was the way the students brought out his widely varied interests — including not… Read More
Bill Gates made a rare appearance at the University of Washington this afternoon, talking about how qualitative and measurable advances in technology are coming together for major advances in the… Read More
Today at the Malaria Summit in downtown Seattle, Melinda Gates met with a group of bloggers to talk about the battle against the deadly disease, the progress toward a potential… Read More
Seattle is the center of the battle against malaria this week, as scientists and global health leaders descend on the region for the second Malaria Forum, organized by the Bill… Read More
I’ve advised a number of startups over the years and have been directly part of at least two. I discovered what many entrepreneurs know: it’s a maddening, exhausting, adrenaline-filled, glorious… Read More
Seattle Children’s Research Institute has secured a $2.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to finish developing the prototype for an innovative, low-cost respiratory device designed to support breathing… Read More
Look out, Oprah: A new Books section of Bill Gates’ website, The Gates Notes, offers a glimpse of some of his favorite books and recent reads, and invites readers of… Read More