Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates is said to be quietly starting a new company in the suburb next to Redmond that will oversee his research and philanthropic efforts ...
NEW YORK, Sept 17 - Microsoft founder Bill Gates is the richest person in the United States for the 15th year in a row, but economic woes have claimed some members of Forbes magazine ranking...
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' cultish following is creepy, but his resemblance to Thomas Edison is uncanny...
He was there at the birth of the personal computer. He has had his second coming. He has healed one very sick company. And along the way he has changed the way we think about music and movies, telephones and computers.
WASHINGTON, Oct 6 - Billionaire Bill Gates's Cascade Investment on Monday reported a 5.6 percent active stake in Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc. The fund said in a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and...
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct 14 - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it will donate a total of $120 million in nine grants aimed at boosting agricultural production, marketing and farming expertise in the...
NEW YORK, March 11 - Microsoft Corp <MSFT.O> founder Bill Gates is the richest man again, overtaking investor Warren Buffett, as the global financial meltdown wiped out $2 trillion from the net worth of the...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 - Microsoft founder Bill Gates gave $168.7 million to develop vaccines for malaria, part of $3 billion in funding announced on Thursday to tackle Africa's biggest killer disease. Gates said the...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 24 - The U.N. World Food Programme, backed by philanthropists Bill Gates and Howard Buffett, said on Wednesday it will buy surplus crops directly from poor farmers in Africa and Central America...
Consumer electronics that will make any man happy--except, perhaps, Bill Gates.