What blows Bill Gates’ mind about U.S. education — and not in a good way One of the cool things about Bill Gates’ website, The Gates Notes, is the feeling that you’re looking over his… Read More
Classic PC game by Bill Gates makes comeback on iPhone It might be hard to believe nowadays, but there was a time when Bill Gates himself was writing the software… Read More
Chatting with Bill Gates, and your chance to quiz him today I got a chance to talk with Bill Gates for just a few moments last night at an event previewing… Read More
Top 10 stories: Remembering Arfa; Bill Gates on Steve Jobs; and more There was no shortage of news on the technology beat during the month of January, one of the reasons that… Read More
From film festivals to art museums, Paul Allen’s giving has a distinctive local flair Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s philanthropic efforts don’t get quite as much attention as the sweeping global health efforts of Bill… Read More
Google vs. your wife, Apple’s piles of cash, rooting for Cozi, and other quotes of the week The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “In short, we’ll treat you as a… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Apple’s big quarter, Bill Gates’ legacy, and the world of digital puzzles This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we recap the gigantic quarter posted by Apple, hear Bill Gates… Read More
The Greatest innovators of all time: Edison, Jobs, Zuckerberg (but no Bill Gates?) Maybe Bill Gates needs to burnish his legacy a bit with the kids. A survey released this week asked 1,010… Read More
Video: Bill Gates on his last visit with Steve Jobs The story of Bill Gates’ final visit with Steve Jobs was told in Walter Isaacson’s biography of the Apple co-founder,… Read More
Arfa Karim Randhawa, 1995-2012: Hear her philosophy of life Arfa Karim Randhawa, the computer programming prodigy who became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at 9 years old, has… Read More
Bill Gates as modern-day Batman: Microsoft co-founder saves 5.8M lives (sans Batmobile) The Frugal Dad has created an awesome infographic, detailing the impact that Bill Gates’ philanthropic efforts have had on the… Read More
Bill Gates-owned Corbis buys LA product placement firm Product placements are everywhere, from movies to TV to city buses. Now, Corbis — the Seattle-based digital image company backed… Read More
Ray Ozzie’s new startup has ‘huge goals’ for new era of social communication Ray Ozzie, the Lotus Notes creator who replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft’s chief software architect, lifted the lid just a… Read More
Dear Stanford: Now that your NYC campus isn’t happening, how about Seattle? Dear Stanford, First, we want to express our deepest sympathies about the loss in the Fiesta Bowl last night. It… Read More
Not so smart anymore: Microsoft’s watches are done Microsoft’s Smart Personal Object Technology, also known as SPOT, was originally unveiled by Bill Gates a decade ago. It was… Read More
Year in Review: The 100 most popular stories on GeekWire Whoa, can we catch our breath now? We’ve certainly had plenty to cover on the tech beat over the past… Read More
Morning Radar: Steve Jobs is ‘most fascinating’ of 2011; Cheezburger’s latest; Big Fish; Wetpaint and more A quick rundown of stories and offbeat tidbits catching our attention this morning … Pet and animal lovers can now get… Read More
Newsmakers 2011: Melinda Gates, ‘impatient optimist’ Sure, Bill Gates may get more attention, but Melinda Gates is the one who deserves the newsmaker title this year… Read More
Gates spars with lawyer over Windows 95, jurors yawn It must have pretty exciting for jurors in Salt Lake City to see Bill Gates arrive to testify in Novell’s… Read More
Bill Gates takes stand to testify in Windows 95 antitrust case Well, it’s actually happening. Bill Gates has taken the witness stand in Salt Lake City, Utah, this morning to testify… Read More
Video: Watch Bill Gates explain how technology is reshaping our world, again This is Bill Gates, coming full circle. During a rare appearance last month on the University of Washington campus —… Read More
Gates: Microsoft’s opportunity ‘stronger than it’s ever been’ Posting from Bellevue: Since leaving his day-to-day executive role at Microsoft, company co-founder Bill Gates has been known not to… Read More
What to expect at Microsoft’s annual meeting this week Microsoft will hold its annual meeting of shareholders Tuesday morning in Bellevue, just down the road from its Redmond headquarters,… Read More
RIP Andy Rooney: A look back at his classic Bill Gates rant It was a tradition in my family each Sunday night to order a Coccia House pizza and watch “60 Minutes.”… Read More
Book smarts vs. street smarts: Which makes the best startup entrepreneurs? (Infographic) Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to start their respective companies, relying on their enormous intellect and… Read More
Gates on Jobs’ zingers: ‘None of that bothers me at all’ What does Bill Gates think about all that biting criticism from Steve Jobs in the biography released after the Apple… Read More
Bill Gates was lucky … and good Was Bill Gates just a lucky upper middle class kid who happened to stumble into the PC revolution? Or was… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Advice from Gates, best movie app ever, and Seattle startup BigOven This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we share a highlight from Bill Gates’ appearance at the University… Read More
Excerpts: Bill Gates on politics, education, and why his burger is same as yours One of the most interesting things about Bill Gates’ appearance at the University of Washington yesterday was the way the… Read More
Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated Bill Gates made a rare appearance at the University of Washington this afternoon, talking about how qualitative and measurable advances… Read More
