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Gates Foundation announces $210M donation to UW’s Population Health Initiative

The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is awarding $210 million to the University of Washington’s Population Health Initiative, in one… Read More

Vice President Gates? WikiLeaks emails reveal Bill and Melinda were on Hillary Clinton’s short list

Bill and Melinda Gates were apparently under consideration for Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential nominee, according to an email from campaign… Read More

Melinda Gates sheds new light on her planned efforts to get more women in tech

When Melinda Gates quietly established a new organization last year called Pivotal Ventures, she was expected to further her work… Read More

What Bill Gates would do if he were living on $2 a day

Bill Gates, chicken farmer? The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist says in a blog post that investing in poultry would his first move… Read More

Marc Benioff, Airbnb founders join Giving Pledge, committing majority of wealth to charity

Airbnb co-founders Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and wife Lynne are among 17 billionaires… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates’ message to teens: Time and energy are superpowers — and they can help fight global poverty

For wealthy people, living in wealthy countries, privilege manifests itself in obvious ways. But it also exists in more subtle… Read More

How Melinda Gates got her daughters excited about science, and slept in on Saturday mornings

Melinda Gates was one of the speakers on a panel about gender parity on Friday at the World Economic Forum… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates don’t Whip or Nae Nae after eating Cocoa Puffs and Wheat Chex

Bill Gates says that he and his wife Melinda are interviewed dozens of times a year, but in a new blog… Read More

See if you can beat Bill Gates on this state of the world quiz

How well do you know the state of current world? If you’re Bill Gates, quite a bit. In fact, you… Read More

Melinda Gates creates ‘Pivotal Ventures’ to pursue outside projects, focusing on women’s issues

Melinda Gates, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair, has quietly established a new organization called Pivotal Ventures, an independent… Read More

Melinda Gates is No. 3 in Forbes’ ‘World’s Most Powerful Women’ list

Melinda Gates joined some highly esteemed company in the latest Forbes‘ list. According to the media giant, the co-chair of… Read More

Melinda turned down Bill Gates the first time he asked her out

This is a funny how-we-got-together story: Melinda Gates turned Bill Gates down the first time he asked her out.… Read More

Washington gun initiative backed by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer passes

A Washington initiative to increase background checks for gun purchases that was supported by the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and… Read More

Bill & Melinda Gates give $1M to gun law; Nick Hanauer pours in another $1M

Bill & Melinda Gates had already donated $50,000 to the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, a coalition that wants to require background checks… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates tell Stanford grads to seek social good, not just financial gain

Bill and Melinda Gates told Stanford students at commencement yesterday that they should bring the school’s innovative spirit with them into… Read More

Gates Foundation picks California university chancellor as new CEO

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that it has found its next chief executive: Susan Desmond-Hellman, who is… 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

Melinda Gates ranks #3 on list of most powerful women

Move over Oprah. Melinda Gates is out to change the world, and she’s moving up the list of the most… Read More

Video: Melinda Gates tells Duke grads to reject the ‘Me Generation’ label

Duke University computer science and economics grad Melinda Gates returned to her alma mater this past weekend to deliver the… 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

Jeff Bezos, Melinda Gates named to Academy of Arts and Sciences

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, philanthropist Melinda Gates and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center director Dr. Larry Corey are among those who’ve been… 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 keeps the bar high in push for malaria eradication

Addressing the Malaria Forum in downtown Seattle this morning, Bill Gates sounded at times like he was back in the… Read More

An ‘impatient’ Melinda Gates joins Twitter, tops 17,000 followers in a day thanks to Tweet from BillG

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates joined Twitter in January 2010, and has quickly assembled an audience of some 3.5 million followers.… Read More