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DONKEY.BAS, a game that was co-written by Bill Gates and came pre-installed on some IBM computers in 1981, is now available for iPhone and iPad gamers in the iTunes App Store. Priced at just $0.99 (0.79 EUR), the game redefines the expression “blast from the past” with truly old-school gameplay mechanics... |
10 February 2012
04:29 GMT |
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After learning of Steve Jobs’ medical condition in the weeks before his passing, Microsoft founder Bill Gates sent a letter to the Apple CEO, giving him his best regards. Steve, according to his widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, kept the letter by his bed.Bill Gates said in a recent interview with The Telegraph, &ldq... |
28 January 2012
15:26 GMT |
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There has been a lot of chatter surrounding Bill Gates’ ban on iProducts in his house. While the Gates family never confirmed such rumors, Bill can’t be too happy that the paparazzi managed to snap a photo of his daughter, Phoebe, carrying what looks a lot like an Apple iPhone.
Via TMZ comes this photo o... |
30 December 2011
05:04 GMT |
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Microsoft might have its founder and former CEO Bill Gates back to working for the company, so as to give it a boost that it so much needs; at least this is what Fortune says. No confirmation on such plans emerged, but it seems that sources close to Gates confirmed that he might be considering returning to the com... |
9 December 2011
09:03 GMT |
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Bill Gates has recently announced he plans to develop a new nuclear reactor, powered by depleted uranium. In order to achieve this goal, he is counting on China's support. In his opinion, this strategy represents a cost-effective method of producing energy while complying with high safety standards.
So far, th... |
8 December 2011
02:58 GMT |
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Today, Bill Gates should take the stand in a suit that Novell has filled against Microsoft in the court of law back in 2004. The suit claims that Microsoft has been applying anti-competitive tactics that hurt two products from Novell, namely WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. The pair was supposed to make it to computers ... |
21 November 2011
12:39 GMT |
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An interview with Walter Isaacson has revealed that it took about three years to gather information for his biography on Steve Jobs, and that everyone agreed Jobs was a perfectionist - a trait that sometimes took its toll on the people close to him.Asked what his sources were and how he chose the people to speak abou... |
10 November 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Forbes has published its yearly Most Powerful People in the world list. As you'd expect, US President Barack Obama sits at the top of the list, followed by Russia's Prime Minister and de facto leader Vladimir Putin.But you don't have to look too far down the list to see that, among the politicians, tec... |
5 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Microsoft co-Founder and Chairman Bill Gates addressed the G20 this week, underlining the importance of remaining committed to alleviating poverty for the members that are part of the group.
French President and G20 Chair President Nicolas Sarkozy invited Gates to speak, with the billionaire philanthropist focusi... |
5 November 2011
07:25 GMT |
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Bill Gates is not bothered by the harsh comments of Steve Jobs as he was interviewed by Walter Isaacson for his biography, according to an interview with the Microsoft founder."Steve Jobs did a fantastic job," Gates told "This Week" anchor Christiane Amanpour, when pressed to comment on Steve Jobs’ remarks that... |
31 October 2011
09:02 GMT |
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Bill Gates is currently focusing on his philanthropic work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but he continues to believe that technology plays a crucial role in all aspects of society.
The video embedded above features the Microsoft co-founder talking at the University of Washington about the future and... |
29 October 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Speaking to Jon Stewart on the Daily Show this week, biographer Walter Isaacson made what can be regarded as the most concise yet accurate comparison ever between Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s late Steve Jobs. Commenting on Jobs’ relationship with Bill Gates, as well as both their roles in the... |
27 October 2011
10:25 GMT |
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In yet another excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography, the late Apple co-founder is quoted as saying that Bill Gates, ex CEO of Microsoft, lacked imagination, couldn’t invent anything, and therefore ended up stealing other’s ideas to rise to fame.According to Isaacson’s book, Jobs... |
21 October 2011
13:31 GMT |
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It’s now clear that Steve Jobs only stepped down from the position of Apple Chief Executive Officer when he was extremely close to the end, which shows immense dedication and love for the company he co-founded. News of Jobs’ death is circling the globe today, and many mourn the visionary that built and th... |
6 October 2011
03:11 GMT |
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Money definitely doesn’t buy style. Billions of dollars mean nothing if one doesn’t have a sense of style or, as is the case of Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, can’t be bothered to care about fashion. He’s just topped GQ’s worst-dressed list. Taking a look at the men of Silicon... |
4 August 2011
15:51 GMT |
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What if you had the chance to get insight into physics from one of the greatest minds of the past century, while also accessing modern context and additional content to put everything into perspective? Bill Gates’ Project Tuva is an invitation extremely hard to refuse, free and full access to the Messenger Lec... |
20 April 2011
09:29 GMT |
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2010 is coming to a close and it's time for the year-end reviews. Yahoo was the first, Google published its Zeitgeist and Twitter is following. It is now looking back at the year and showing off what it achieved. Despite worries about growth slowing down, the site claims 100 million people have joined Twitter th... |
10 December 2010
10:08 GMT |
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Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg joins a growing number of billionaires pledging to give away most of their fortune to charity. The "Giving Pledge" asks wealthy individuals to pledge to donate most of their money either during their life or after their death. Zuckerberg, who is 26 at the moment, is one of ... |
9 December 2010
05:43 GMT |
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is among the members of an extremely select club, the world’s most powerful people. Moreover, the man that dreamed of putting a Windows PC on every desk and in every home is in an even more select list, the top 10 most powerful figures of the globe according to Forbes, including ... |
4 November 2010
09:37 GMT |
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On this year's Forbes list of the wealthiest people in America, Bill Gates is still number one, even if earlier this year he had lost the position because of the huge amounts of money he gave away to charity through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Still the Microsoft co-founder and chairman managed to rise h... |
23 September 2010
05:11 GMT |
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If the European Union adopts the “priority review voucher” reward system, it will stimulate drug companies to develop treatments for neglected diseases like tuberculosis, malaria or Leishmaniasis.Professor David Ridley of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Alfonso Calles-Sánchez, a... |
10 September 2010
05:57 GMT |
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffet have convinced no less than 40 billionaires and their families in the United States to donate at least half their fortunes to philanthropy. Buffet together with Bill and Melinda Gates initiated the Giving Pledge initiative approximately six months ago. With t... |
5 August 2010
06:30 GMT |
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Those familiar with the history of how Microsoft came to be already know that Paul Allen showed Bill Gates the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine featuring the Altair 8800, a computer built by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS). MITS was founded by Ed Roberts, the father of Altair 8800... |
2 April 2010
07:42 GMT |
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Bill Gates’ massive fortune of approximately $53 billion wasn’t sufficient to keep the Microsoft co-founder at the top of Forbes’ annual ranking of billionaires worldwide. Gates is now officially the world's second-richest man, having lost the top position in favor of Mexican telecom tycoon Car... |
11 March 2010
10:41 GMT |
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Sometime between 2003 and 2006, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer and Co-founder and chairman Bill Gates visited Sun Microsystems. It wasn’t a courtesy visit, according to Jonathan Ian Schwartz, Former CEO of Sun Microsystems. The Microsoft duo were on a mission to convince Scott McNealy, Sun&rsqu... |
10 March 2010
10:40 GMT |
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has identified the number-one priority of its philanthropic efforts, and in doing so pledged no less than $10 billion for vaccines. According to the Foundation, increased funding of vaccination worldwide could end up saving in excess of eight million children from death by 2020. ... |
1 February 2010
11:35 GMT |
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Microsoft Chairman and the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart this week, almost three years since his previous appearance on the show. However, in just three years, Gates’ focus has changed dramatically. Whereas at the start of 2007 the Microsoft co-... |
26 January 2010
10:09 GMT |
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Earlier this week, Microsoft Chairman and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, rejoined Facebook, and created his first account on Twitter. However, it appears that Gates’ foray into the universe of social networking is merely the first step toward a strategy which would have the co-fo... |
21 January 2010
03:46 GMT |
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Bill Gates, the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, is quickly growing to the status of Twitter superstar. On January 1st, 2010, Gates joined the social network under his real name, and although there have been people in the past masquerading as Microsoft’s Chairman, this time it’s the real deal. @Bill ... |
20 January 2010
06:49 GMT |
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Over one year since he retired from his day-to-day role with Microsoft to dedicate his time and financial resources to philanthropy, Bill Gates still remains synonymous with the company he created with Paul Allen. Ray Ozzie, the man who inherited the Microsoft chief software architect title from Gates along with... |
11 January 2010
05:26 GMT |
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Erick Estavillo is a gamer that is hastily becoming a very infamous image in the gaming community, but more so in the legal one. Promoting the stereotype by which video gamers have flown over the cuckoo's nest once too many times, the gamer has already sued some of the biggest companies in the industry and has m... |
2 December 2009
04:41 GMT |
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The goals of any respectable, young Japanese high-school graduate is to enter a famous and renowned university, like the Tokyto University, and then to go on and be recruited by a respectable and powerful company. It may not sound like all that different from the rest of the world, but Japan has a bit of a cult of th... |
24 November 2009
04:18 GMT |
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A physical tour of Bill Gates’ mansion in Medina comes with a price tag of no less than $35,000. But of course the lucky recipient gets all the money’s worth. This because Big Gates himself will act as the official guide for the tour. You didn’t really believe that the world’s top billionaire... |
12 November 2009
02:10 GMT |
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In a move designed to expand its work in Europe, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has appointed Joe Cerrel as the lead of its new European office. At this point in time, Cerrell occupies the position of director of global health policy and advocacy at the foundation, and will continue with this role until the end ... |
13 August 2009
07:25 GMT |
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MySpace may be “a place for friends” but now it looks like Facebook may be turning into a place for (too many) friends. And it can get overwhelming, especially for famous people, so some of them are leaving for greener, or rather bluer, pastures, where they don't get so many friend requests from peop... |
27 July 2009
10:06 GMT |
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Bill Gates is one of the most well-known men on the planet, largely because he is the one responsible for Microsoft, which is one of the biggest corporations in the world, and which develops the Windows operating system. PC gamers also have a special relationship with Gates as they spent a lot of time “wishing... |
16 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Bill Gates is one of the people whom you would invariably expect to find science fun and interesting. But Gates also believes that with the necessary catalysts so can a lot more students – students destined to become the technology innovators of tomorrow, if only they were nudged in the right direction early on... |
15 July 2009
09:09 GMT |
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Although even Microsoft has embarked on a path to software-plus services, heading straight for the Cloud, with Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at the helm, the company's co-founder continues to believe that it's all about software. Given the chance to start all over again, Bill Gates would build a softw... |
30 March 2009
11:19 GMT |
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Speaking at the Government Leaders Forum, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates indicated a consistent level of optimism that technology would solve many of the world’s most critical issues in 10 or 20 years out. “And it will be education, modeling technology, and great people who understand this domain, and in t... |
27 March 2009
07:16 GMT |
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With the addition of Maria Klawe, the size of Microsoft’s board of directors has grown back to 10 members, following a few months when it functioned with just nine contributors as Jon A. Shirley, former president and chief operating officer, retired in November 2008. Maria Klawe, Ph.D., is the current presiden... |
10 March 2009
05:05 GMT |
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Check this! “Microsoft founder head Bill Gates has banned the use of products made by arch-rival Apple from his house, his wife has revealed,” reads a report. We needn't go any deeper into the story to discover the reasons for this kind of attitude. While we haven't yet heard Apple's CEO, S... |
4 March 2009
11:51 GMT |
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You would think that being the offspring of a multi-billionaire, and a man who has spent more than a decade in the no. 1 position of the world's most affluent businessmen, would by synonymous with having everything you want. Well, you would be wrong. Bill Gates has banned iPods and iPhones from his home, a mansi... |
3 March 2009
05:32 GMT |
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What better way to revitalize the Windows brand than to go back in time all the way to the “good old” DOS days? The original steps of the new, reportedly $300 million-worth Windows marketing campaign managed to focus only in part on the Windows client itself, delivering instead a much broader approach als... |
10 December 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Microsoft part-time Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld teamed up for the sole purpose of warming up the audience for the advent of the I'm a PC commercials. However, although part of the same $300 million marketing campaign was designed to revitalize the Windows brand, the Seinfeld an... |
1 December 2008
09:56 GMT |
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The Windows Azure Cloud operating system, as well as the Azure Services Platform are nothing short of vital for the future of Microsoft, revealed the company's Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer. During the 2008 Annual Shareholder Meeting at Bellevue, Washington, held on November 19, 2008, Microsoft's CE... |
20 November 2008
07:22 GMT |
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Just three months after Bill Gates retired from his day-to-day role at Microsoft, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is divorcing the company from the motto that helped put it on the map. Ballmer revealed during a Q&A session at The Churchill Club the past week that the Redmond giant had outgrown Bill Gates' ... |
30 September 2008
10:46 GMT |
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Microsoft is working to bring the next killer application and the next-generation engagement model to fruition, under the leadership of Craig Mundie, Chief Research & Strategy Officer. Following his pseudo-retirement from Microsoft, Bill Gates split his role between Ray Ozzie, now Chief Software Architect, and Mundie... |
30 September 2008
10:08 GMT |
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Having retired from his day-to-day role as a Microsoft Chairman at the end of June 2008, Bill Gates is now focusing almost exclusively on the philanthropic work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. However, because the ties with Microsoft have not been severed, the company is also involved in initiatives designe... |
24 September 2008
13:24 GMT |
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Microsoft is without a doubt diversifying the collection of resources behind the new $300 million Widows marketing campaign created by advertising agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. From Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld's the Future Is Delicious to I'm a PC; Windows vs. Walls; Life Without Walls; the fake &ldqu... |
20 September 2008
06:43 GMT |
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Imagine no walls... Imagine that Bill Gates is a PC, along with celebrities such as Eva Longoria and Deepak Chopra, Pharrell Williams, astronaut Bernard Harris and many, many others. And it’s not like Microsoft is in short supply of “personas” declaring themselves to be a PC. In fact, with Windows&#... |
19 September 2008
06:12 GMT |
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