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Bill Gates

Convoy raises $62M from Bill Gates and other luminaries to transform trucking industry with technology

It’s a warm summer afternoon at the TA Seattle East truck stop in North Bend, Wash., and Jerry Brooks is… Read More

Bill Gates

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

Pivotal Commware beams

Holographic beam-forming antenna startup Pivotal Commware raises $17M from Bill Gates and others

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Chalk up another score for metamaterials technology: Bellevue-based Pivotal Commware says it’s raised $17 million in Series… 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

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett

Relax, it’s just close friends Bill Gates and Warren Buffett testing mattresses in a Nebraska megastore

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are admittedly close friends, but have we ever seen them lie side by side on… Read More

Walt Mossberg

The Bill Gates Taco Bell story: Walt Mossberg talks world’s richest man, $10, and late-night food

Legendary tech columnist Walt Mossberg is retiring this month, shortly after the annual Code Conference wraps up, but not before… Read More

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman leads $30M investment in social petition site Change.org, joined by Bill Gates

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is leading a $30 million investment round in the social petition site Change.org, and he is… Read More

Bill Gates books

Escape with Bill Gates and the five books he recommends on his 2017 summer reading list

Bill Gates is all about escaping with a good book, and come summer time, the Microsoft co-founder and avid reader… Read More

U2

From Seattle stage, U2’s Bono gives shout out to Bill and Melinda Gates, Starbucks for philanthropy

“There’s one love, and we get to share it,” according to U2’s Bono in the lyrics to the band’s 1991… Read More

Just three words: Here’s what Bill Gates would do today if he were just starting out

It’s graduation season, and Bill Gates, who has given a commencement address or two in his day, took to Twitter this… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek: Microsoft’s ‘gorgeous’ new laptop, Apple’s giant cash pile, and nerdy basketball math

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=74kPEJWpCD4 Microsoft is known for its utility tools: Windows, Office and the like. What it’s not known for is design. But… Read More

Gates and Federer

Bill Gates recounts epic tennis match with Roger Federer, says he checked an item off his bucket list

Bill Gates admits that he’s normally pretty composed in front of a large group of people, but playing tennis in… Read More

Gates and Federer

Highlights: Roger Federer and Bill Gates play tennis together in Seattle, share a passion for philanthropy

With the lights dimmed and music bumping, a sold-out crowd at Key Arena roared on Saturday evening as tennis legend Roger Federer… Read More

Todd Pierce

Former Bill & Melinda Gates digital chief sues organization, claims he was misled about his role

A former Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation chief digital officer has filed a lawsuit against the organization, claiming he was… 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

Hit reply to get paid: Microsoft vets take on LinkedIn with novel ‘Nextio’ messaging service

A new professional messaging service called Nextio aims to challenge a key feature of LinkedIn by turning the economic model on… Read More

Take a journey around the world with Bill Gates in this 360-degree virtual game of Hide and Seek

Want to play a game? Bill Gates does. The Microsoft founder and noted philanthropist is inviting people to play a… Read More

Tennis legend Roger Federer will play with Bill Gates in Seattle to support children’s education in Africa

Roger Federer will play tennis in Seattle for the first time and he’ll have a unique partner with him on the court:… Read More

Richard Branson

Q&A: Billionaire Richard Branson on Bill Gates’ tennis game, how he met Jeff Bezos, and more

At the age of 66, Virgin billionaire Richard Branson has seen a lot of entrepreneurs come and go, but he’s… Read More

Bill Gates

Bills Gates tops world’s richest list again; Jeff Bezos at No. 3 after adding $27.6B to his fortune

Bill Gates is the richest person on the planet for the fourth straight year, in what was a record year… Read More

Bill Gates

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

ResearchGate reports $52 million funding round, including cash from Bill Gates

Berlin-based ResearchGate, a LinkedIn-type site for scientists, today revealed that it has received $52.6 million from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and a… Read More

Bill Gates on Trump, the definition of success, his favorite sandwich, and other Reddit AMA highlights

Bill Gates is one of the most recognizable symbols of success in the modern world. So how does Bill Gates,… Read More

Tax the robots! Bill Gates on why even automation should be held to this human requirement

If robots and automation are ultimately going to replace more and more American jobs, Bill Gates, for one, thinks we shouldn’t… Read More

Podcast

Full Interview: Bill Gates on global health, clean energy, Trump, Microsoft and the future of the world

Nearly a decade after leaving his full-time job at Microsoft, Bill Gates sat down with GeekWire for an extensive interview… 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

Bill Gates is still mixing it up at Microsoft in his spare time: ‘I love what’s going on there — it’s fun’

It has been nearly a decade since Bill Gates left his day-to-day role at Microsoft, but he still has a… Read More

What Bill and Melinda Gates are doing with Warren Buffett’s $30 billion, a decade after historic gift

“It was the biggest single gift anyone ever gave anybody for anything.” That’s how Bill and Melinda Gates describe Warren… Read More

Interview: Why Bill Gates is still optimistic about the world, and what he wants from President Trump

If the world were a PC operating system, some of us would probably be ready to reboot. You know, just to… Read More

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