Bill Gates brings his optimistic viewpoint as first guest editor in TIME magazine’s 94 years Bill Gates is a big-time reader, as we’ve previously noted. But this week we get to see what kind… Read More
Gates Foundation and Facebook quickly match $2M in donations to nonprofits for #GivingTuesday Like! The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Facebook teamed up again for #GivingTuesday, the annual global charitable event aimed… Read More
Gates Foundation’s Seattle exhibit center gets refreshed with a new name, more interaction The Gates Foundation Visitor Center is no more. Instead, say hello to the Gates Foundation Discovery Center. The public education… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: Build games to save the planet; A peek into the cutting edge of AI; and more There are lots of ways to make our lives more sustainable — use less electricity, recycle plastic containers — but how… Read More
Gates Foundation sues software developer, claiming it billed $2.8M and built ‘nothing of value in return’ The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation filed a lawsuit against a California-based software company today, alleging that the company failed to… Read More
Obama shares message of ‘relentless optimism’ in speech and chat with Bill and Melinda Gates Former President Barack Obama addressed the Goalkeepers gathering in New York City on Wednesday and shared the message of relentless… Read More
Is the world falling apart? Bill Gates says that it’s never been better — and he’s out to prove it Bill Gates gets a firsthand look at some of the world’s gnarliest problems through his philanthropic work attempting to eradicate… Read More
PATH receives $120M Gates Foundation grant to fuel vaccine development across the globe Seattle-based global health nonprofit PATH announced Wednesday that it has received a $120 million grant from the Bill and Melinda… Read More
Gates Foundation and PATH wire up health data in Africa using a novel approach The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the global health nonprofit PATH are working on a groundbreaking initiative in Africa… Read More
Bill Gates casts a wider net, asking blog followers to help in the war against mosquitoes and malaria Bill Gates is once again enlisting the help of his blog followers in his effort to do some philanthropic good.… Read More
Bill Gates joins Instagram to share photos from his adventures, starting in Tanzania Bill Gates already does a good job of blogging about his adventures around the world through his Gates Notes website,… Read More
Innovating ’til the cows come home: Bill Gates visits Australian ranch to witness digital agriculture Complete with cowboy hat, Bill Gates traveled a long way from the bustle of Seattle to witness the innovative techniques… Read More
Gates Foundation commits up to $300 million to global polio eradication effort Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates announced Monday that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged up to $300… Read More
In first temporary exhibition, Gates Foundation fights gender inequality with stories of hope Edna Adan Ismail wanted to prevent women from dying during childbirth in her home country of Somaliland. It’s not easy… Read More
Gates Foundation says it contributed $1.5B to the Seattle-area economy in one year The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says its economic impact in the Seattle region was $1.5 billion in 2015. That’s… Read More
Talking toilets: Bill Gates uses 360 video to show how India is winning in its clean sanitation battle There’s a lot of things we take for granted in developed countries: safe drinking water, constant access to electricity and,… Read More
Bill Gates to meet with President Trump again and here’s what could be on the agenda Bill Gates will meet with President Trump again on Monday, just a few months after meeting with the then-president-elect to… Read More
Video Highlights: Inside the world of Bill Gates, nearly a decade after he left Microsoft Nearly a decade ago, in 2008, Bill Gates stepped down from his day-to-day role at Microsoft. A daily newspaper reporter… Read More
Championed by Bill Gates, innovative autopsies could unlock mystery of early childhood deaths Aid organizations and public health agencies are spending billions of dollars each year to save the lives of babies and… Read More
High praise, and a joke, as President Obama awards Bill and Melinda Gates with Medal of Freedom Bill and Melinda Gates were awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony at The White House on… Read More
Bill and Melinda Gates ‘deeply humbled’ to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom for foundation work Bill and Melinda Gates have been selected to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — by… Read More
Bill Gates tests ‘poop perfume’ as he sniffs out another solution to the world’s sanitation problems Bill Gates’ business sense has a lot to do with why he is who he is, but it’s the billionaire… Read More
Tech Moves: Todd Pierce out as chief digital officer at Gates Foundation; Remitly adds chief product officer Todd Pierce, chief digital officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is departing from that role after 18 months,… Read More
Melinda Gates sheds new light on her planned efforts to get more women in tech When Melinda Gates quietly established a new organization last year called Pivotal Ventures, she was expected to further her work… Read More
Bill Gates talks Trump and Clinton and his hope to continue global health efforts with either Bill Gates has spent years working on global health and fighting to eradicate diseases of poverty in developing countries, and in… Read More
Gates Foundation commits $100M to White House’s National Microbiome Initiative The White House today unveiled more than half a billion dollars’ worth of public and private programs aimed at unraveling… Read More
Bill Gates ‘confident’ that poverty can be wiped out by 2030 Bill Gates expressed renewed optimism this week that poverty can be eradicated in all its forms by 2030, and that… Read More
Bill Gates to reportedly unveil ‘biggest’ clean energy fund ever at Paris climate talks Reports on the upcoming Paris climate talks are stating that Bill Gates’ next big project will be focusing on clean… Read More
How personalized learning can reshape education: Insights from a special Gates Foundation panel Buy the textbook. Attend lectures. Take tests. Get graded on a curve. This is the way most people remember their college… Read More
Drug-delivering microchips one step closer to market, thanks in part to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation A biotech company that received some of its first major funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced… Read More
