Wired magazine editor Bill Gates has a very special holiday wish list Getting involved with dead-tree publishing seems to be the thing to do if you’re a tech billionaire from Seattle. While… Read More
Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes to retire from position Bill Gates suddenly has another CEO position to fill. Jeff Raikes, the 55-year-old CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates… Read More
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
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 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
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’ 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
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
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
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’ 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 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 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
Highlighter, 20MM release free interactive sociology book Do you remember hitting ye olde campus bookstore back in your college days and getting sticker-shock from the final tally… 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
‘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
Bullets hit Gates Foundation HQ in weekend incident A weekend shooting near Seattle Center damaged windows at the headquarters of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Seattle… 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
Sneak Peek: The technology behind the new Gates Foundation Visitor Center The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation opens its new Visitor Center in Seattle starting this weekend, giving the philanthropy a… Read More
Gates Foundation’s Tweets reveal passive, insular global health community Guest Post: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is hosting a number of events today in anticipation of the opening… Read More
Microsoft and education: lead or cheerlead? In the Seattle area there is a powerhouse co-founded by Bill Gates, dedicated to using advances in technology to change… 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
From Bill Gates to Google, Startup Weekend is on a roll The folks over at Startup Weekend continue to pull in key partnerships as they look to spread the gospel of… 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
Video: Melinda Gates on social media and tweeting with Bill Today at the Malaria Summit in downtown Seattle, Melinda Gates met with a group of bloggers to talk about the… Read More
Man vs. mosquito: How science is taking aim at malaria now Seattle is the center of the battle against malaria this week, as scientists and global health leaders descend on the… Read More
Practical Nerd: Irresistible startups, immovable education I’ve advised a number of startups over the years and have been directly part of at least two. I discovered… Read More
