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Paul Allen

Paul Allen’s Vulcan buys glam Hollywood hotel for $40.9M

The real estate arm of Paul Allen’s investment company Vulcan Inc. announced the $40.9 million purchase of the Redbury Hotel… Read More

Paul Allen gives $500K to Seattle’s KEXP — DJ says ‘there would be no station’ without him

Iconic Seattle radio station KEXP announced a $500,000 gift from entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul Allen Thursday. Allen’s donation helped the… Read More

Bill Gates tops Forbes list with net worth of $76 billion, plus a map of the richest people in each state

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has once again been declared the richest person in the U.S., with a net worth of… Read More

HMS Hood bell

Bell from British battleship, retrieved by Paul Allen team, unveiled 75 years after sinking during WWII

The bell from a sunken British WWII battlecruiser, retrieved from the depths of the Denmark Strait by a team led… Read More

Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen delivers ‘powerful’ speech to team after season-ending loss

Some professional sports franchise owners view their teams solely as an investment. For Paul Allen, the Portland Trail Blazers mean much… Read More

Here’s why the basketball world is talking about Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today

Embed from Getty Images Thanks to Stephen Curry’s heroics, Paul Allen turned into a viral meme late Monday evening. Allen,… Read More

Paul Allen’s Portland Trail Blazers use Microsoft’s Cortana technology to sell tickets and engage fans

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen probably didn’t think that the company he co-founded would one day help his NBA team sell more tickets… Read More

Brain tissue

Seattle researchers join forces to study brain injury, aging and dementia

Scientists from Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science, the University of Washington and Group Health Research Institute have put together… Read More

Image: Allan Jones and Paul Allen

NYT burnishes Seattle’s reputation for world-changing nonprofits, fueled by tech money

It goes without saying that Paul Allen and Bill Gates had an enormous impact on Seattle. But their influence on… Read More

Space Needle

Rare Space Needle construction photos make us wonder whether tech billionaires’ projects will stand test of time

Look in any direction in Seattle today and the view is sure to include a common sight: construction cranes. In… Read More

Image: Allan Jones and Paul Allen

Paul Allen boosts bioscience in Science

Seattle billionaire Paul Allen is making a pitch for out-of-the-box bioscience from one of the scientific community’s most respected soapboxes:… Read More

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Interview: Paul Allen’s artificial intelligence guru on the future of robots and humanity

Artificial intelligence may seem like a futuristic concept, but we’re already experiencing it in real ways in our lives, whether… Read More

Paul Allen launches $100M Frontiers Group program for ‘out-of-the-box’ bioscience

Seattle billionaire Paul Allen added another venture to his philanthropic portfolio today with the creation of the Paul G. Allen… Read More

Paul Allen bankrolls 611 teacher projects in Washington state in celebrity ‘flash funding’ initiative

Hundreds of schools in Washington state — 329 of them, to be exact — are in for a surprise. Microsoft co-founder… Read More

Paul Allen aims to inspire a new wave of space dreamers with out-of-this-world art collection

More than 50 years ago, an event in Seattle changed the world forever. The 1962 World’s Fair got 10 million visitors… Read More

Bill Gates

Forbes says Bill Gates still world’s richest person, while Jeff Bezos jumps 10 spots to No. 5 on list of billionaires

Though the value of his personal fortune fell by $4 billion during the past year, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates remains… Read More

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Paul Allen giving $2 million in effort to help fight Zika virus outbreak

Paul Allen announced $2 million in grants on Friday aimed at combating the spread of the Zika virus, which the World… Read More

Alpha Jet

Man arrested for damage to jet that he thought belonged to Paul Allen

A Marysville, Wash., man was arrested for allegedly hopping a fence and breaking pieces off of an airplane that he… Read More

Paul Allen mega-yacht blamed for damage to Cayman Islands reef; Vulcan calls reports ‘exaggerated’

Damage to a protected coral reef in the Cayman Islands is being blamed on a super yacht owned by Seattle… Read More

Paul Allen adds $5.4M bungalow to his collection of Mercer Island properties

A couple weeks before Christmas, Paul Allen stuffed his stocking with yet another home on Mercer Island. The billionaire Microsoft… Read More

Amazon and Founders’ Co-op back new Seattle startup KITT.AI, born in Paul Allen’s AI2 incubator

A new Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup called KITT.AI, incubated inside Paul Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), has landed… Read More

Blue Origin rocket landing

Billionaire Space Club pits Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos vs. Richard Branson vs. Paul Allen and more

When Jeff Bezos welcomed SpaceX to the rocket landing “club” last week, it set off a round of twittering over… Read More

Vulcan and USDOT unveil $50 million Smart City transportation contest

  The U.S. Department of Transportation and billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. are offering $50 million to midsize cities,… Read More

Go inside Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum with this 3D virtual tour

Those who may not be able to make a physical trip to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum in… Read More

Bill Gates Sr. at 90: A giant impact on technology, philanthropy and the Seattle region

View image | gettyimages.com Editor’s Note: Bill Gates Sr. died on Sept. 14, 2020. This profile, reported in 2015 for… Read More

Stratolaunch landing

Work continues on Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch plane, but rocket plans are still under wraps

The world’s largest airplane is taking shape for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Aerospace venture, but it’s not yet clear what… Read More

Here’s why Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen plans to give most of his money away

Paul Allen is following in the footsteps of legendary philanthropists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, but is doing so… Read More

Paul Allen’s AI2 launches search engine designed specifically for scientists

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, or AI2, launched a new search engine for scientists on Monday, the latest project… Read More

Allen Telescope Array

Alien megastructures? SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array targets weirdly winking star

One of the premier telescope arrays in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, is focusing its antennas on an… Read More

Paul Allen accepts Carnegie Medal for Philanthropy, says he’s taking an optimistic approach to solving global problems

In August, the recipients of this year’s Carnegie Medals were announced, and yesterday, Paul Allen accepted his Carnegie Medal for… Read More

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