Bono’s shout out to Bill Gates: Thanks for your passion, your brain power (and your cash) More than 70,000 people turned out Saturday night for the U2 concert at Seattle’s Qwest Field, listening as Bono belted… Read More
Video: Bill Gates wrote the checks, and Melinda drove the vision for foundation campus Bill Gates may have written the checks for his foundation’s beautiful new $500 million campus in the heart of Seattle.… Read More
Inside look at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s new Seattle HQ It spans 12 acres in the heart of the city, just a stone’s throw from The Seattle Center where the… Read More
Now leaving: The guy who led Microsoft’s iPad rival … years before the iPad existed Long before Apple introduced the iPad, Otto Berkes and his team at Microsoft were working on devices called UltraMobile PCs… Read More
Comments of the week: Ballmer at USC, Gates on the BBC, etc. Microsoft’s top brass took some heat in the GeekWire comment threads this past week, with readers complaining about everything from… Read More
Microsoft CEO Summit: Corporate titans huddle in Redmond, quietly The top executives of Wal-Mart, Xerox, Procter & Gamble, Geico, Berkshire Hathaway, Costco, JP Morgan Chase, Ford and more than… Read More
Excerpt: BBC host grills Bill Gates on Microsoft’s prospects Well, on a program called “Hard Talk,” it only makes sense that host Stephen Sackur didn’t accept Bill Gates’ standard… Read More
Bill Gates a ‘strong proponent’ of Microsoft’s Skype deal There was no boardroom brawl in Redmond over Microsoft’s proposed $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, at least not between Bill… Read More
What do you think of the Smithsonian’s new Bill & Melinda Gates portrait? The National Portait Gallery in Washington D.C. features some of the country’s most influential Americans, from Abraham Lincoln to Martin… Read More
Lakeside leads the charge for elite new ‘Global Online Academy’ In her role as the board chair of Lakeside School, Connie Ballmer announced that the Seattle institution is teaming up… Read More
Bill Gates touts nuclear energy, says coal kills more people Nuclear energy can be made safe in part through advanced computer simulation and next-generation power plant designs, according to Microsoft… Read More
Idea Man? Ex-Microsoft geek reviews Paul Allen’s memoir Guest Commentary: I want to thank Paul Allen for writing his memoirs. It’s great to hear the story of the… Read More
Bill Gates pledges $20M to support game-based learning The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $20 million to support new “game-based learning applications” in math, English and… Read More
Paul Allen, like you’ve never heard him before It was a privilege, and a ton of fun, to get to interview Paul Allen on stage about his new… Read More
Review: Paul Allen’s new book isn’t mean, it’s just honest I’ve just finished reading an advance copy of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s memoir, “Idea Man,” due out Tuesday. You know,… Read More
Videos: Lesley Stahl grills Paul Allen about Bill Gates, and GeekWire about Allen Screaming matches. Dumpster diving. And a deep bond between two super geeks from Seattle. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen provided a… Read More
Paul Allen on 60 Minutes: Book about history, not revenge against Bill Gates OK, we can finally let you in on a secret we’ve been keeping here at GeekWire: A “60 Minutes” crew… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Allen vs. Gates, Amazon Cloud Drive, Giant Thinkwell +1 This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a strange week in tech news, including our first glimpse of Paul… Read More
Report: Paul Allen book has ‘created a rift’ with Bill Gates In telling the story of his early days with Bill Gates, a new memoir by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen appears… Read More
Bill Gates and Paul Allen: The raw truth, as told by Allen The first excerpt from Paul Allen’s upcoming memoir, Idea Man, was published online by Vanity Fair tonight. After reading it,… Read More
Myhrvold firm: Japan crisis shouldn’t deter next-gen nukes Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based patent firm and invention house run by former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold, says in a… Read More
Bill Gates: What technology (and baseball) can teach schools The challenges facing the U.S. education system may seem intractable, at times, but schools looking for inspiration could do worse… Read More
Bill Gates on Philanthropy: A How-To Guide for Techies For many years, technology executives would crowd into conference halls to listen to Bill Gates, hoping to glean some insight… Read More
Microsoft’s IPO, 25 years ago, and what happened after that It was 25 years ago today — March 13, 1986 — that a personal-computer software company named Microsoft Corporation sold… Read More
Ballmer slips to No. 46 on Forbes list; Gates steady at No. 2 Bill Gates’ investments in the Mexican stock market helped to increase his estimated wealth by $3 billion, to $56 billion,… Read More
Bill Gates gives away fortune, no longer richest man, or is he? I drove by the new campus for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Sunday afternoon, and I was absolutely… Read More
