Melinda Gates now has a comic book about her life Up until now, Bill Gates was likely the only member of his family to have a comic book written about… Read More
Ballmer’s exit: New questions about Microsoft’s explanation To fully grasp the significance of Steve Ballmer’s retirement announcement, first go back to 2008, when the Microsoft CEO told… Read More
Bill Gates invests in program to help teachers discover and share education technology There are all kinds of geeky ways teachers can use technology to help their students perform better and learn more.… Read More
Bill Gates on Google’s Internet balloons; Contour hits the wall; and other comments of the week The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “The Internet is transforming almost every element of the… Read More
Bill Gates pops Google’s internet balloons, says he won’t be investing in space Bill Gates does not have high hopes for Google’s plan to provide Internet access to the developing world through a… Read More
Geek on the Street: Would you rather go on a date with Bezos, Gates or Zuckerberg? Whether you’re interested in their tech empires, computer-savvy minds, or dashing looks, it would be hard to pass up a… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Bill Gates on tech, philanthropy, robots, and why you don’t want be a billionaire This week on the GeekWire radio show, we’re listening back to highlights from Bill Gates’ recent public appearance in Redmond… Read More
Here’s the obscure book that Bill Gates is gushing about this summer Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is a voracious reader, carrying a tote bag of books on his travels across the globe.… Read More
Bill Gates is helping turn your poop into drinking water Drinking our own poop is not healthy. But when you take human waste, heat the crap out of it —… Read More
Bill Gates at Microsoft: Watch his entire talk here Bill Gates made a rare public appearance back at Microsoft, his old stomping grounds, earlier today for the opening keynote… Read More
Return of Microsoft Bob? But seriously, Gates sees new chance for ‘personal agents’ REDMOND — Bill Gates opened his talk at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit today by saying we’ve entered a “golden… Read More
Here are the 8 interesting books Bill Gates is reading this summer It’s always fun learning which books are in Bill Gates’ giant tote bag of old-fashioned books he lugs around, and… Read More
Bill Gates at Microsoft: Free and commercial software working ‘very well’ together REDMOND — Here are five words you’d never expect to come out of Bill Gates’ mouth: “Thank God for free… Read More
Five years later, Bill Gates back at Microsoft for talk today REDMOND — Bill Gates has made public appearances at Microsoft relatively rarely since leaving his day-to-day role at the company… Read More
Satellite communications startup Kymeta lands $50M from Bill Gates, others Kymeta Corp., the satellite communications startup that spun out of Intellectual Ventures, has scored $50 million in venture funding. Backers… Read More
Photos: Bill Gates bought this $8.7 million mansion in Florida’s horse country Well, we can hardly imagine software pioneer Bill Gates riding atop a horse. But the tech mogul just reportedly jumped… Read More
Nathan Myhrvold says discussions with Bill Gates ‘completely irrelevant’ in patent spat, claims he’s too busy to testify As CEO of Intellectual Ventures, international traveler and cooking guru, Nathan Myhrvold is a busy man. So busy, in fact, that… Read More
Bill Gates: ‘My dad is the man I aspire to be’ Normally, Bill Gates focuses his blog posts on work he’s doing or books he’s reading. For Father’s Day, though, he… Read More
Bill Gates’ first post on LinkedIn: ‘3 things I’ve learned from Warren Buffett’ Learning the game of bridge isn’t the only thing Warren Buffet has taught Bill Gates. In Gates’ first-ever post on LinkedIn titled… Read More
Bill Gates leads $35M round to help make science research more accessible Bill Gates has put in a lot of time and effort to help eradicate some of the world’s most-deadly diseases,… Read More
This American Life: Intellectual Ventures got 90% of ongoing profits even after selling patent Intellectual Ventures struck a deal to receive 90 percent of the ongoing profits from a patent that it sold to… Read More
Bill Gates: U.S. leaders should be more data-driven Bill Gates has said repeatedly that he doesn’t have aspirations to hold public office, but he has some common-sense advice… Read More
Tech Moves: Joanna Lord named CMO at BigDoor; Brian Arbogast joins the Gates Foundation; and more —Online marketing whiz Joanna Lord has left her VP job at SEOmoz to become chief marketing officer at BigDoor, the Seattle… Read More
Microsoft stock hits 5-year high as Gates reclaims world’s richest title It’s a good day to be Bill Gates. According to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, Gates’ reclaimed the title of world’s richest… Read More
Bill Gates: Like athletes, teachers need their Vince Lombardi or John Wooden To improve upon something, we must learn, and to learn, we often seek guidance from others. For example, Michael Jordan… Read More
Video: Melinda Gates tells Duke grads to reject the ‘Me Generation’ label Duke University computer science and economics grad Melinda Gates returned to her alma mater this past weekend to deliver the… Read More
Tech pioneer Bill Gates still lugs around a giant bag of paper books It’s always interesting to keep track of what Bill Gates is reading, and for some reason I envisioned him taking… Read More
Gates, Buffett say online purchase taxes are fair and good for state budgets Billionaire buddies Bill Gates and Warren Buffett wholeheartedly agree on one thing: Online retailers need to be taxed. Speaking on… Read More
Gates, Myhrvold tap startup vet to lead ‘Global Good’ technology initiative The position of “Vice President of Global Good” at Intellectual Ventures made news even before it was filled. The Bellevue company,… Read More
Bill Clinton (officially) joins Twitter, gets shout out from Bill Gates and Colbert Former president Bill Clinton has joined Twitter — and this time the ex-commander-in-chief is doing so without the help of… Read More
