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Gates Foundation picks California university chancellor as new CEO

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that it has found its next chief executive: Susan Desmond-Hellman, who is… Read More

Photos: Bill Gates to buy Mexican resort for $200M

Getting a room at the luxurious Four Seasons Punta Mita in Mexico is outside the realm of possibility for most folks,… Read More

Here are the 7 best books Bill Gates read in 2013

If you’re looking for that perfect holiday gift for a book worm, Bill Gates has some recommendations. The Microsoft co-founder… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Amazon Drones, Artefact’s ‘Juice Box,’ a beautiful app and a classic console challenge

We’re getting very futuristic on this week’s GeekWire radio show — starting with our thoughts on Amazon’s surprising “Prime Air”… Read More

Gates and Zuckerberg lead $9M funding round for group helping schools upgrade their Internet access

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Mark Zuckerberg’s Startup:Education initiative have led a $9 million funding round for EducationSuperHighway… Read More

Bill Gates: Jeff Bezos overly optimistic on drones, but they will have a positive impact

Will Amazon really have fleets of aerial drones delivering products to customers’ doorsteps in four to five years? Bill Gates,… Read More

Here’s where Bill Gates prefers to eat a burger in Seattle

Bill Gates isn’t exactly a highly-regarded food critic. But for the decades he’s spent in the Seattle area, the Microsoft… Read More

Week in Review: Xbox One arrives; Bitcoin mania; Seattle council supports startups; etc.

Need to catch up? Here’s a roundup of highlights from GeekWire this past week, with news, nuggets and other commentaries.… Read More

Charles Schwab’s advice to Bill Gates: Come back as Microsoft CEO ‘for at least a year’

Bill Gates has signaled that he doesn’t plan to return to Microsoft to replace Steve Ballmer as CEO, but he… Read More

Wired magazine editor Bill Gates has a very special holiday wish list

Getting involved with dead-tree publishing seems to be the thing to do if you’re a tech billionaire from Seattle. While… Read More

Bill Gates explains what Microsoft needs in a new CEO

So much has been reported about Microsoft’s CEO search via anonymous sources in recent weeks and months. So how about… Read More

In final shareholder speech, Ballmer defends Bing and Xbox as key parts of Microsoft

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer just finished speaking at the company’s annual shareholder meeting — his final one as the company’s… Read More

What to expect from Steve Ballmer’s final shareholders meeting as Microsoft CEO

Microsoft’s annual shareholders meeting takes place Tuesday morning in Bellevue, Wash., and it’s almost an understatement to say that Microsoft… Read More

Farewell, stack rank: Why this change is so big for Microsoft

[Editor’s Note: Christopher Budd worked at Microsoft for more than 10 years, specializing in security response and communications.] Yesterday every… Read More

Bill Gates spending ‘much bigger slice of time’ at Microsoft amid CEO transition

No, Bill Gates says he isn’t returning as Microsoft CEO. But he is spending much more time at Microsoft these… Read More

Big History: Bill Gates wants you to take his ‘favorite course of all time’ for free online

Ever want to learn like Bill Gates? Now you can. Bill Gates announced today that the course Big History is now available… Read More

Soon, you’ll be able to learn to code from Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg

Ever wonder what it’s like for Bill Gates to teach you programming? Well, you’ll be able to get the answer… Read More

The billionaire buffer: How Mark Zuckerberg is following Bill Gates’ lead in real estate

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are both Harvard dropouts who climbed to the top of the technology world. And it… Read More

Beyond his years: Teen game company founder Nikhil Khanna debuts his second mobile title

Nikhil Khanna impressed us last year, building an iPhone game and creating a company in just two months with $600. Now… Read More

Bill Gates’ mistake; Comcast X1; iOS debuts; and other top posts of the month

Autumn is officially here. How do we know? Well, of course there’s the rain. But, as GeekWire Chief Business Officer… Read More

Is Bill Gates the problem? Report says three big shareholders want him out as Microsoft chairman

Reuters is making waves tonight with a report that three of Microsoft’s top investors want Bill Gates to step… Read More

Bill Gates invests in power grid networking company Varentec

Bill Gates, along with Khosla Ventures, has invested over $8 million as part of a Series B funding round for a… Read More

The rest of the story: Control-Alt-Delete inventor didn’t expect it to be widely used

A story about computing history took the Internet by storm this week after Bill Gates told a Harvard University audience… Read More

Finally: Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake

Bill Gates made many exceptional decisions while he was leading Microsoft to immense success. He did, however, make a few… Read More

Extra-double confirmation: Bill Gates not returning as Microsoft CEO

When asked, a number of top tech executives have said that Bill Gates sure seems like the man for the… Read More

Bill Gates tops Forbes list of richest Americans for 20th straight year

The new Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans is out this morning, with a familiar face at the top:… Read More

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Bill Gates needs to come back to Microsoft and fire some people

SAN FRANCISCO — When Michael Arrington asked Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff who the next CEO of Microsoft should be on… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Microsoft + Nokia, new Kindle Paperwhite, and the future of satellite broadband

There’s a lot to talk about on this week’s GeekWire radio show, including Microsoft’s $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone… Read More

How Bill Gates and Google are linked via O3B’s satellite broadband deal with Kymeta

Bill Gates doesn’t always see eye-to-eye with Google on the topic of spreading Internet connectivity around the world — recently… Read More

Intellectual Ventures spinout Evolv gets $11.8M from Bill Gates and others, aims to transform security scanning

Intellectual Ventures this morning announced a new spinout company, Evolv, that has landed $11.8 million in funding from investors including… Read More