Articles about Bill Gates – Page 20 of 24

Bill Gates on how better technology will help eradicate Polio

A few months ago, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg announced their plans to team up in the fight to eradicate… Read More

‘Gates’ bio is back on Kindle, with new take on Jobs vs. Gates

More than a decade ago, as I was getting up to speed on the Microsoft beat, one of my new… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: This startup founder wants to help you find a better babysitter

[Editor’s note: Be sure to join us in person this Thursday, April 11 for the GeekWire Radio Show, live on stage for… Read More

Bill Gates and Paul Allen reprise classic Microsoft photo, three decades later

The photo above is a Microsoft classic, showing the company’s founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, surrounded by personal computers… Read More

Bill Gates invests in energy storage again, this time with battery maker Aquion

In the past few years, Bill Gates has already invested in three energy storage companies — MIT spinout Metal Battery (renamed… Read More

Time’s top Twitter feeds: Bill Gates, @SeattleMamaDoc and journalist Glenn Fleishman

Philanthropist Bill Gates (@BillGates), technology journalist Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) and pediatrician Wendy Sue Swanson (@SeattleMamaDoc) are among those chosen for… Read More

Kymeta: Is this Bill Gates’ next billion-dollar company?

Wireless technology company Kymeta Corp. has been in business for a grand total of seven months, but already it has… Read More

Bill Gates addresses cybersecurity threats, then gets hacked

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stopped by the Washington Post today and spoke about his support for addressing the threats of cybersecurity.… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: How data, technology and analytics are reshaping education

Our topic this week on the GeekWire radio show: The future of education, and how technology is changing the experience… Read More

Bill Gates at SXSWedu: The future of education is data

If there was a single nerdy subtext that Bill Gates brought to his closing keynote at the SXSWedu conference in… Read More

Bill Gates ranks 2nd on Forbes billionaires list, Jeff Bezos rises up the charts

Forbes is out today with its annual ranking of the world’s top billionaires, and Seattle tech titans are well represented… Read More

Code.org video featuring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and other coding geeks goes viral

Code.org, the non-profit created by entrepreneurs Ali and Hadi Partovi, has struck a nerve with its video about the importance… Read More

Reddit AMA: Bill Gates on internet freedom, Steve Jobs and the Surface Pro

Answering questions about everything from his favorite book (The Better Angels of our Nature) to his favorite band (Weezer) to… Read More

Ask Bill Gates anything: Microsoft co-founder answering questions on Reddit

UPDATE, 11:55 a.m.: Here’s a transcript of Gates’ answers —— From how much money is in his wallet to his… Read More

Khan Academy’s Salman Khan on startups, technology and why he uses Windows

Salman Khan is known for his educational videos, and his Khan Academy is a non-profit venture, but he has all… Read More

A big win for BC: Annual TED conference headed to Vancouver

TED is heading north of the border. To mark the organization’s 30th anniversary, it just announced today that it plans… Read More

Bill Gates says Steve Jobs was “always cooler than me”

Steve Jobs may have been “cooler” than Bill Gates, and that’s OK. The Microsoft co-founder and chairman made his first-ever… Read More

Bill Gates’ Annual Letter: How measurement can change the world

Bill Gates published his fifth annual letter today and wrote that accurate measurements and clear goals are the keys to improving the… Read More

Bill Gates says you should read these 5 books in 2013

I wish I knew how many books Bill Gates has read in his life. The man inspires me to read… Read More

Bill Gates wants your help to change the world by 2030

Once a year, Bill Gates pens an annual letter that recaps the work being done around the world that’s helping… Read More

Bill Gates backs cancer test startup to create a precise genomic tumor blueprint

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is tossing his support behind a Cambridge, Massachusetts company by the name of Foundation Medicine which… Read More

Bill Gates to keynote SXSWedu conference

While much of the tech world’s attention is focused on Las Vegas and the Consumer Electronics Show (and Microsoft’s lack… Read More

Billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos got a lot richer in 2012

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is trying to give away his fortune. But he may have to try a little bit… Read More

GeekWire’s Top 50 Posts of 2012: Milestones, stunts and more craziness from the year in tech

It’s that time when journalists take a moment to reflect on the past year. We’re doing that here on GeekWire… Read More

Inspired reading: Bill Gates lists the top ten books of 2012 that made him think

Bill Gates is a well-read guy, and it’s been that way for a while. He would check out books from… Read More

Advice from a dropout: Bill Gates says colleges need to fix the graduation problem

So you probably would not take advice about college education from a person who dropped out of school — unless,… Read More

Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla and Peter Thiel bankroll energy storage startup LightSail

LightSail Energy, a Berkeley, California-based company that’s designing systems to store energy generated by wind and solar power, has landed… Read More

Microsoft founders Allen, Gates reconnect after year-long rift

Paul Allen’s memoir, Idea Man, is out in paperback this week, and the Microsoft co-founder has penned an epilogue updating… Read More

Unreal candy is healthy and Bill Gates loves it

It’s Halloween, so let’s talk about candy. We all know about the health implications of the sugar-packed, partially hydrogenated sweets… Read More

Two months and $600: Teen entrepreneur shows us how easy it is to start a game company

Teenager. Entrepreneur. Programmer. Lakeside School. String ’em together, and you might think of Bill Gates, a Lakeside grad and former… Read More