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Microsoft milestone: Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer mark $1 billion in giving (Photos)

REDMOND, WASH. — Before he began another exciting week running Microsoft, a young Bill Gates sat down at a Sunday evening… Read More

Zuckerberg’s net worth sinks; Gates remains richest American

Oftentimes the leader of a newly public company experiences a substantial increase in net worth, but Facebook’s shrinking share price… Read More

This is the best book Bill Gates read this summer

Bill Gates likes to read and share his book recommendations with the rest of us, and this week he revealed… Read More

Bill Nye takes on creationism; Solavei’s cell plan; and other top stories of the month

August usually is a quiet time on the tech beat, but not this summer. We were busy keeping tabs on… Read More

Intellectual Ventures: Why haven’t there been more spinoffs?

Intellectual Ventures has been in business since 2000, led by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, with a bunch… Read More

Intellectual Ventures spins out satellite broadband antenna company, with Bill Gates as investor

Bill Gates is among the investors putting a total of $12 million into a new Seattle-area company, Kymeta, that plans… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Inside the world of an RFID implantee

Radio Frequency Identification, better known as RFID, is used in everything from livestock to shipping containers. But what about humans?… Read More

The Carlyle Group gobbles up Getty Images for a cool $3.3B

Getty Images, the Seattle distributor of digital images and video, is transitioning from one private equity firm to another. The… Read More

Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet, from the user interface to the back end

Speaking to a crowd in Seattle earlier today, Bill Gates sounded at times like he was talking about a technology… Read More

What should Bill Gates read? Our top 5 books for his list

A few weeks ago, Bill Gates posted his summer reading list. A self-confessed reading junkie — “sometimes I can get… Read More

MS-DOS wasn’t stolen, new forensic analysis concludes

This could be the tech world’s version of a conviction being overturned by new DNA evidence. A forensic analysis conducted… Read More

Bill Gates and Paul Allen: Friendship on the mend?

The publication of Paul Allen’s book last year reportedly caused a “rift” with his Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, over Allen’s… Read More

Voracious reader Bill Gates shares his favorite books of the summer

Want to get inside the mind of one of the world’s richest men? Just take a look at his bookshelf.… Read More

Bill Gates hints at details of his ongoing Microsoft work

Charlie Rose aired a wide-ranging interview with Bill Gates earlier this week, with much of the hour focusing on philanthropy and… Read More

‘Slut factories’ and Super PACs: Melinda Gates on ‘Colbert’

Did Stephen Colbert just get away with calling the Gates Foundation a ‘slut factory?’ Last night the cantankerous faux right-winger… Read More

Gates: Tablets in the classroom won’t work without keyboard

Will Microsoft’s Surface tablet computer be better for students than the iPad? Bill Gates didn’t say that explicitly, but he… Read More

Gates, Jobs, Google or Dorsey: Which of these comic books about tech CEOs would you want to read?

Blue Water Productions is rolling out a new comic book line, featuring the of legends of the tech industry. The… Read More

Malcolm Gladwell: In 50 years, Bill Gates will be revered and Steve Jobs will be forgotten

In a recent appearance at the Toronto Public Library’s Appel Salon, author Malcolm Gladwell provided some fascinating remarks about the role… Read More

MIT spinout Liquid Metal Battery lands $15M from Bill Gates, others

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation, an MIT spin out that’s developing new technologies for electricity storage, has raised $15 million in funding… Read More

On the auction block: Bill Gates’ old Porsche 911

Does a Bill Gates pedigree command a premium in the market for classic cars? Over the years I’ve spent more… Read More

Bill Gates-owned Corbis faces $12.75M in damages in fraud case

Corbis, the digital image company owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, must pay $12.75 million in damages as part of… Read More

Photo of the day: Gates and Buffett play ping pong

Now, here’s a pairing we’d love to see at GeekWire’s upcoming ping-pong tournament. At the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting earlier… Read More

A ‘TB breathalyzer’ and other wild ideas backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced more than 100 winners of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, an effort whereby the… Read More

Bill Gates: ‘Cheap energy is like a fantastic vaccine’

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is back in the news, talking about the importance of nuclear power. And while the software… Read More

Corbis CEO Gary Shenk explains why they’re excited about music licensing

We were pretty intrigued with the idea of GreenLight Music — the new digital music licensing business from Seattle-based Corbis… Read More

How this design geek’s toilet analogy fell flat in a 2003 pitch to Bill Gates

We love hearing old stories about how Bill Gates operated at Microsoft, in part because the software titan has reshaped… Read More

Q&A: Ray Ozzie on startups, Microsoft, and what he’s dreaming up next

[Updated with video above] Our opening conversation at the GeekWire Summit featured Ray Ozzie, the online collaboration pioneer and former… Read More

Bill Gates-owned Corbis unveils an ‘iTunes for music licensing’ with GreenLight Music

Corbis may be best known for licensing digital images. But the Seattle company, started by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in… Read More

Gates is No. 2 in new daily ranking of world’s billionaires, Zuckerberg doesn’t make the list

Not content with waiting six months or a year to find out who the world’s richest people are? Bloomberg is… Read More

Quotes of the week: Seattle is a ‘red dwarf’ and Silicon Valley is the sun

The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week … “I think there are great investors and great… Read More