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Bill Gates is working on a ‘Personal Agent’ project at Microsoft

Need help managing your calendar and all the work you need to do? Bill Gates is here to help. In… Read More

Video: Watch what Bill Gates did to Jimmy Fallon’s MacBook

Earlier this week, Bill Gates was on The Tonight Show to talk about his annual letter and drink some “poop water.”… Read More

Bill Gates and Jimmy Fallon take ‘poop water’ drinking challenge

Bill Gates has been on a campaign to bring attention to efforts to process sewage into drinkable water. Earlier this month he… Read More

From poop to potable water: Watch Bill Gates take a drink from this incredible processor of human waste

Bill Gates has long been focused on finding better ways to manage sanitation processes — and build better toilets —… Read More

The Business of Being Bill Gates: How Microsoft’s co-founder is mapping his own road ahead

More than six years have passed since Bill Gates left his day-to-day role at Microsoft to shift to full-time work… Read More

Bill Gates and Madrona lead $15M investment in secretive high-tech radar company Echodyne

Bill Gates and Madrona Venture Group are leading a $15 million investment in a new company called Echodyne, which is… Read More

Food tech startup Hampton Creek scoops up tasty $90 million from big-name investors

The company that brought us Just Mayo, an eggless spread claiming to be healthier and better for the planet, has raised an… Read More

Bill Gates-backed Kymeta raises $20 million, CEO announces departure

Kymeta, which has been described as the next billion-dollar idea bankrolled by Bill Gates, has raised another $20 million in… Read More

Satya Nadella read these 5 books during his first year as Microsoft CEO

The original Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates, has practically created a third career for himself by reading and recommending books, so… Read More

Bill Gates’ 5 favorite books of 2014 reveal secrets of business and economics

He’s not quite on the level of Oprah in her television heyday, but Bill Gates has developed a large following… Read More

Test your Web IQ: 17% of Americans can’t positively ID Bill Gates, 40% don’t know Twitter’s character limit

Do you know the guy in the accompanying photo? Of course you do. After all, you’re reading GeekWire, which means… Read More

Bill Gates invests in Seattle fund that accelerates Indian startups

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has invested in the Unitus Seed Fund, a venture capital fund designed to help entrepreneurs in India get new ventures… Read More

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos make Forbes’ most ‘powerful people’ list

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos already are among the wealthiest people on the planet. Now, according… Read More

Washington gun initiative backed by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer passes

A Washington initiative to increase background checks for gun purchases that was supported by the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and… Read More

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Bill Gates to increase Malaria funding by 30 percent

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Sunday that he plans to boost his foundation’s funding for malaria research and eradication by… Read More

Rediscovering photography, and recapturing a life, in a lost picture of Bill Gates and Paul Allen

How long would you gaze at a photo in 1970 versus today? Has our attention for a single photo been… Read More

Bill Gates buys California horse ranch from Jenny Craig for $18 million

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates paid $18 million for a 229-acre horse ranch just north of San Diego. The ranch, known… Read More

When your next meeting is with Bill Gates

What would you be doing an hour before a conversation with the second richest person in the world? Jennifer Tang… Read More

Microsoft board shakeup continues: Two more directors depart, as Kraft and Visa execs join

Microsoft’s board of directors continued its radical transformation on Tuesday under new CEO Satya Nadella. The company announced that two… Read More

Climate change: Bill Gates, Hank Paulson and Nathan Myhrvold diagnose our dysfunction

It was a combo you don’t see every day: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, and… Read More

The Seattle freeze is real; the geekiest bicycle in the world; and other top posts of the month

Wow, what happened to the summer? It’s already Labor Day, and the dog days of summer have simply slipped away.… Read More

Bill & Melinda Gates give $1M to gun law; Nick Hanauer pours in another $1M

Bill & Melinda Gates had already donated $50,000 to the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, a coalition that wants to require background checks… Read More

Microsoft’s board: New blood could mean new approach

Steve Ballmer’s resignation from the Microsoft board this week is the latest change for a group that has experienced a major… Read More

Epic: Bill Gates geeks out on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Lots of big-time tech execs have been taking the “Ice Bucket Challenge” this week, dumping buckets of cold water over… Read More

Bill Gates recommends you read these 6 books this summer

Bill Gates is back with another reading list for those of you looking for some good books to enjoy this summer.… Read More

Funded by Bill Gates, this remote-controlled contraceptive chip could be available in 2018

Imagine pushing a button on a remote control and having a computer chip disperse a hormonal birth control drug through your… Read More

Bill Gates: Eradicating polio easier than fixing U.S. education system

Fixing the U.S. education system is harder than eradicating some of the world’s worst diseases. That’s what Bill Gates said on… Read More

Teachers protest in downtown Seattle, say Bill Gates is ruining education

Bill Gates has poured millions of dollars into public education reform in the U.S., and some teachers aren’t too thrilled about… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates tell Stanford grads to seek social good, not just financial gain

Bill and Melinda Gates told Stanford students at commencement yesterday that they should bring the school’s innovative spirit with them into… Read More

These Bill Gates-funded ‘super bananas’ could have a huge impact on global health

A grant of nearly $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation could revolutionize the lowly banana, turning the… Read More