Map: These billionaires could buy every single home in these 10 U.S. cities Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates could buy all of the homes in Boston. Amazon.com CEO could do the same in Napa,… Read More
Trim those trees! Why Bill Gates and friends want to put accelerometers on power lines Accelerometers have become a common part of the sensor arrays on smartphones and other devices, but a group that includes… Read More
Bill Gates ‘absolutely’ supports spinning off Xbox biz, but Microsoft committed to gaming unit Bill Gates may have voiced support for selling off Microsoft’s Xbox business, but the Redmond giant is making sure customers understand… Read More
Milestone: Bill Gates no longer Microsoft’s largest shareholder, as shares dip below Ballmer’s stake For the first time in Microsoft’s history, Bill Gates is no longer the company’s largest individual shareholder, as of this… Read More
‘A real inventor’: UW’s Gary Kildall, father of the PC operating system, honored for key work Growing up in California, Scott Kildall and his sister Kristin knew that their dad, Gary, was working on important things… Read More
Gates-backed inBloom winding down after non-profit faces concerns over privacy InBloom, which was backed by $100 million from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, is closing up shop after… Read More
Bill Gates vs. Google Glass: Pending patent would thwart video snooping Google is offering its Google Glass for sale to the public for the first time today, in a limited-time promotion.… Read More
Watch: Bill Gates picks his 13 favorite TED talks Polio. Data. Education. These are all interests of Bill Gates, so it was no surprise to see the topics appear… Read More
What Bill Gates thinks about Zuck, WhatsApp, development and God Bill Gates is no great fan of the “almost laughable” idea that America has nowhere to go but down. “The… Read More
Bill Gates regains world’s richest title with net worth of $76B Forbes today released its annual rankings of the world’s richest, and there’s a familiar face back on top. After a… Read More
Here’s a *real* Bill Gates Windows installation debacle The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz is stirring up lots of attention with this satire about Bill Gates spending his entire… Read More
Video: New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tells employees, ‘we respect innovation, not tradition’ It’s clear that Microsoft’s new leader wants to focus on mobile and the cloud. The Redmond software giant just posted… Read More
Video: GeekWire’s take on Microsoft’s big leadership changes It’s a historic day at Microsoft: Satya Nadella is in as CEO, Steve Ballmer is officially retired and Bill Gates… Read More
BillG is back: Gates will spend a third of time at Microsoft, ‘substantially increasing’ role https://youtu.be/M5BhQVuRcTk We can almost hear it now, echoing through Microsoft’s Redmond campus: “That is the stupidest f-ing thing I’ve ever… Read More
Microsoft names Satya Nadella CEO; Bill Gates stepping down as chairman to serve as tech adviser Microsoft has named longtime executive Satya Nadella as its new CEO — picking a respected internal candidate to lead the… Read More
A new role for Bill Gates: How Microsoft’s co-founder can help the company now It’s looking all but certain now that Satya Nadella will be Microsoft’s next CEO, but another interesting question has popped… Read More
Who is Satya Nadella? Getting to know Microsoft’s nerdy, charismatic heir apparent This just in: Microsoft employees outside the Redmond Azteca think Satya Nadella would be a pretty good CEO, probably. Yes,… Read More
Report: Microsoft may replace Gates as chairman, close to naming Nadella as CEO Microsoft is close to naming its top cloud and enterprise executive Satya Nadella its next CEO, and the company may… Read More
Checkmate! Bill Gates gets trounced by chess champ It seems like Bill Gates has been having a lot of fun on late night talk shows these days. First there… Read More
Slideshow: The many silly outfits of Bill Gates When Bill Gates took to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the Microsoft co-founder was really interested in getting the word… Read More
Hide that MacBook! Bill Gates talks tech and global health with Jimmy Fallon Bill Gates was on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon for two segments last night talking about the 2014 Gates Annual… Read More
Bill Gates predicts that there will be almost no poor countries by 2035 Bill Gates’ just published his sixth annual letter and it came with a bold prediction from the Microsoft co-founder. The World… Read More
Optimistic Bill Gates dodges questions about Microsoft CEO search, says board will move at ‘the right pace’ Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates took to the Bloomberg airwaves today to discuss his 2014 annual letter — a letter in which he… Read More
Bill Gates: India being polio-free is ‘one of the most impressive accomplishments in global health’ For the past three years, not a single person in India has been diagnosed with polio. The country is now… Read More
Bill Gates’ fortune grew by $15.8 billion in 2013 as Microsoft stock surged 35% From a financial standpoint, 2013 was a good year for Bill Gates. The Microsoft co-founder saw his fortune grow by… Read More
Revealed: The 7 answers to our Bill Gates Book Contest One GeekWire reader is about to receive a nice post-Christmas gift — and he’s probably going to become a little… Read More
Microsoft’s 2014 will be defined by a new CEO … if Ballmer and Gates can let go One of the best moments in the Fremont Players’ production of “Dick Whittington and His Cat” — a British Panto on… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Amazon at $400, favorite gadgets of 2013, and the new world of airplane tech etiquette We have a lot to talk about this week on the GeekWire radio show, starting with Amazon’s gravity-defying share price,… Read More
Bill Gates is an amazing Secret Santa, Reddit user discovers A Reddit user participating in the annual redditgifts Secret Santa gift exchange got a major surprise this week when she… Read More
Contest: Answer 7 questions about Bill Gates for a chance to win his top 7 books of 2013 Bill Gates certainly knows a lot of stuff, from computer software to global health, and much more. This contest is a bonus for… Read More
