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Bill Gates

The remarkable life and legacy of Ric Weiland, Microsoft employee No. 2, still making an impact a decade after his death

Ric Weiland — Microsoft’s employee No. 2 — was a tech geek to the core. In the summer  of 1969,… Read More

Gates Foundation is giving $279M to help UW study global population health, the largest private donation in university history

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded the University of Washington a $279 million grant, distributed over the next… Read More

Gates Foundation and partners launch $1B coalition to ‘outsmart epidemics’ with vaccines

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is joining with the Wellcome Trust and the governments of Germany, Japan and Norway… Read More

Bill Gates

Eight richest men, including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, have same wealth as 3.6B of world’s poorest

Eight men own just as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the… Read More

Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures attempt to patent a high-tech football helmet

Bill Gates wants to help improve the safety of football players. The Microsoft co-founder is listed on a recently-filed patent… Read More

UW president lands on Bill Gates’ list of 5 ‘fanatics’ who inspired him in 2016

An educator, a nerd farmer, a former president: these are a few of Bill Gates’ favorite things. As the holidays… Read More

Bill Gates secret santa

Reddit user gets Bill Gates as her Secret Santa, and she’s ‘blown away’ by the awesome gifts he sent

When it comes to Secret Santas, having yours be one of the richest people in the world and and also a… Read More

Bill Gates

Bill Gates meets with Donald Trump, says president-elect can be like JFK on innovation

Bill Gates is making the rounds to promote his new $1 billion venture fund for cutting-edge energy technologies, and one of the… Read More

Obama: Bill Gates-led $1B Breakthrough Energy fund is a ‘smart investment’ and good for planet

President Obama, or at least his Twitter account, weighed in overnight on the news that Bill Gates and more than… Read More

Bill Gates, Jack Ma and others form $1B venture fund to invest in cutting-edge energy technologies

Bill Gates and other technology industry leaders have established a $1 billion venture fund to invest in companies developing cutting-edge energy… Read More

Trulia tech real estate

Lifestyles of the rich and geeky: Trulia pops quick quiz on tech elites and their real estate

You might have to be a tech zillionaire to be able to afford to live in cities like Seattle and… Read More

Bill Gates reveals the 5 best books he read in 2016

To say Bill Gates is a voracious reader is an understatement. The Microsoft co-founder has been gobbling up books of all… Read More

Microsoft holds annual meeting, minus Gates and Ballmer, after big year for company stock

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Microsoft is holding its annual shareholders meeting here this morning, and it’s notable in part because of… Read More

Gates Medal of Freedom

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

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

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

Microsoft joins Linux Foundation in another step toward greater openness

Microsoft is taking increasingly bolder steps toward the openness it has embraced under CEO Satya Nadella, announcing today that it’s joining the… Read More

Ex-Microsoft exec’s startup Telo lands $2.2M in quest to shake up the online messaging industry

Telo, a messaging startup led by former Microsoft executive and distinguished scientist Anoop Gupta, has raised $2.2 million in funding in its pursuit… Read More

Bill Gates bridge

‘Geekiest game in town’: Bill Gates joins world’s best bridge players for global online tournament

In a small room off the lobby of Seattle’s Silver Cloud Hotel, some of the world’s best bridge players assembled… Read More

Why former Microsoft execs Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen are spending $525K on a state Supreme Court race

Something rare and historic is happening to Washington state’s Supreme Court. An unprecedented number of incumbent seats (three to be… Read More

Gates Foundation announces $210M donation to UW’s Population Health Initiative

The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is awarding $210 million to the University of Washington’s Population Health Initiative, in one… Read More

Bill Gates

It’s in the cards: Bill Gates is part of U.S. team competing in Online Bridge World Cup

Bill Gates is going to take on the world! No, not just its infectious diseases and education issues, but some… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates

Vice President Gates? WikiLeaks emails reveal Bill and Melinda were on Hillary Clinton’s short list

Bill and Melinda Gates were apparently under consideration for Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential nominee, according to an email from campaign… Read More

Bill Gates

Bill Gates discusses ‘maniacal’ early days at Microsoft, being caught off guard by his future wife, and ‘awkward’ Control-Alt-Delete

Bill Gates started his Microsoft work when he was 17 years old, and admits that during his earliest years at… Read More

Bill Gates

Bill Gates urges presidential candidates to invest in long-term innovation

This year’s election season has been full of sound bites, scandal, and a decent amount of finger pointing, but amid the… Read More

Bill Gates: Voter opposition to globalization is ‘a huge concern’ — and a wake-up call

Bill Gates has seen first-hand the benefits of globalization, as the co-founder of Microsoft and a leader of the Bill &… Read More

Live: Bill Gates and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in Vancouver, B.C.

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and co-founder Bill Gates are making a rare joint appearance Tuesday at the Emerging Cascadia Innovation… Read More

Bill Gates and Satya Nadella to make rare joint public appearance in Vancouver, B.C., next week

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and its CEO Satya Nadella will headline a conference in Vancouver, B.C. next week with an emphasis… Read More

Bill Gates Star Wars

The Jedi of Washington teachers schools Bill Gates on Star Wars and how it can connect to civil rights

Self-professed “big Star Wars fan” Bill Gates got a lesson in how the iconic sci-fi series can be used to… Read More

Bill Gates

Bill Gates thinks most high schools in America are obsolete — but not this one

At Summit Sierra, a personalized learning charter school in Seattle’s International District, students use software to chase their dreams. They set… Read More

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