Watch: Bezos, Bertha, and more video highlights from an epic year at GeekWire 2017 was one for the history books, and GeekWire captured many major moments and milestones on camera this past year.… Read More
Cat treats! Bill Gates strikes again as Reddit Santa, surprising feline fanatic with giant box of goodies Well isn’t this just purrfect. Everyone’s favorite secret billionaire Santa, Bill Gates, has made the holiday extra special yet again… Read More
Podcast An ‘awesome year’? Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann has a radical view on 2017 It would be easy for Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to look back on 2017… Read More
No more stealing computer time: Bill Gates marks key milestone for UW computer science expansion Bill Gates is helping to expand access to computer science at the same university where he and Microsoft co-founder Paul… Read More
Bill Gates wants you to curl up by the fireplace with these five amazing books he read in 2017 Bill Gates travels the world to all sorts of exotic places and probably gets to meet with pretty much anyone… Read More
Melinda Gates dishes on the family rule that ensures she’s not the last one in the kitchen If you live in or have visited Seattle, and have had access to a boat, perhaps you’ve done the float-past-Bill-Gates’-house… Read More
Microsoft plans to knock down and rebuild original Redmond campus, creating room for 8K more workers in historic redevelopment project Microsoft plans to tear down a dozen of the iconic original buildings at the heart of its 500-acre headquarters in… Read More
Bill Gates-backed startup Sunlight Payments helps track grant money for philanthropic projects It can be a tough task to ensure that grants and charity funds get into the right hands, and show… Read More
Bill Gates linked to $80M property deal to build a smart city in Arizona Bill Gates is apparently joining the ranks of technologists who want to build a better city. One of his investment… Read More
Bill Gates commits $100 million to fight Alzheimer’s Bill Gates has invested billions of his personal wealth to fight polio, malaria and other devastating diseases in the emerging… Read More
The mind-blowing wealth of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett now exceeds the bottom half of the entire U.S. population, new report finds A new report released this week titled Billionaire Bonanza points out the growing divide in the U.S. among the super… Read More
It’s Bill Gates’ birthday, and as usual, his wife Melinda shared the best picture on Instagram Throwback photos of Bill Gates are the gift that keeps on giving. The billionaire Microsoft co-founder turned 62 on Saturday… Read More
Amazon stock surges 13% after earnings report, making Jeff Bezos the world’s richest again Amazon stock is soaring Friday morning after crushing earnings expectations and disclosing that it now employs more than 540,000 people… Read More
Univ. of Washington names new computer science building after Bill & Melinda Gates Before they launched Microsoft and changed the personal computing world forever, Bill Gates and Paul Allen spent their teenage years… Read More
Podcast Week in Geek Podcast: Satya Nadella’s new book, Twitter goes to 280, and our trip to Microsoft’s mysterious new office For anyone curious about the inner workings of Microsoft, Satya Nadella’s new book, “Hit Refresh,” is an interesting read. The… Read More
How Bill Gates used his ‘favorite chart of all time’ to battle Trump’s proposed foreign aid cuts As any geek will tell you, nothing beats a good chart — and as the founder of Microsoft and one… Read More
Bill Gates calls for more data, foreign aid for global health work amid talks of huge U.S. spending cuts As federal leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., to propose a slate of tax and spending cuts Wednesday, hundreds of experts… Read More
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer among those praising Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s book ‘Hit Refresh’ Plenty of interested readers outside of Microsoft will pick up CEO Satya Nadella’s new book, “Hit Refresh,” to gain some… Read More
Bill Gates says he’s switched to an Android smartphone, ‘with a lot of Microsoft software’ It really is a new era at Microsoft — or maybe it’s a return to the company’s roots. Bill Gates… Read More
Review: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s candid book ‘Hit Refresh’ goes inside the tech giant’s revival This was my litmus test for Satya Nadella’s new book: Does he write about his Grace Hopper debacle? The answer… 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
Bill and Melinda Gates launch annual ‘Goalkeepers’ report to track progress toward key UN goals for 2030 Reducing global poverty and improving health is the axis around which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation revolves — and the massive… Read More
Bill Gates gives a boost to ARPA-E, the feds’ endangered energy research agency Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is putting in a plug for the federal government’s energy research agency, ARPA-E, just when it’s… Read More
Bill Gates learns engineering like a 5-year-old in lesson from Washington’s Teacher of the Year Despite all of his success, Bill Gates is always eager to learn something new. And the Microsoft co-founder is inspired… 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’ stake in Microsoft dips below 2% with $4.6 billion stock gift Bill Gates made a gift of 64 million Microsoft shares in June, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing… 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
Bill Gates invests in veggie burger that ‘bleeds’ like beef to feed the masses and save the planet Bill Gates became the world’s richest man by tackling seemingly impossible problems — so it should come as no surprise… Read More
Podcast Week in Geek podcast: From truck stops to elite dating, what’s next in technology GeekWire reporters explored the frontiers of technology in some unusual locations this week — visiting a truck stop in North… Read More
Jeff Bezos passes Bill Gates to become richest person in the world for the first time It’s Day One for Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person. A surge in Amazon’s share price this morning, in… Read More
