Bill Gates

[Gates Foundation] Seattle - Statement by Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on the occasion of the World Health Assembly resolutions declaring completion of polio eradication a global emergency and endorsing the Global Vaccine Action Plan  

Bill Gates is putting more of his money behind a developer of battery technology, whose technology is based on research out of MIT. Liquid Metal Battery said Thursday that it has raised $15M in a Series B round, which was led by Khosla Ventures, and also included Gates, who was a Series A funding backer. Energy company Total also participated in the round. Liquid Medal Battery is developing new battery technology aimed at grid-scale...  

Microsoft [ Images] chief Bill Gates [ Images], who will be in Uttar Pradesh [ Images] on a day's visit on May 30, has two key things on his agenda -- to meet India's [ Images] youngest chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and visit a slum in Lucknow ...  

Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has invited an intelligent Pakistani student Shayan Anique Akhtar who set a world record in Microsoft Professional Certificate programme. According to sources, Shayan Anique Akhtar, a student of a private ...  

John Cook / GeekWire: MIT spinout Liquid Metal Battery lands $15M from Bill Gates, others  —  Liquid Metal Battery Corporation, an MIT spin out that's developing new technologies for electricity storage, has raised $15 million in funding from Khosla Ventures, Total and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.  

While Bill Gates is more famously associated with another Porsche, the 959 that helped shape U.S. doctrine on the import of cars, it wasnt his first Porsche. A few years after he founded Microsoft with Paul Allen, Gates bought new a 1979 Porsche 911 Turbo, which has now turned up for sale i  

This piece was co-authored with Nikhil Dandavati. Earlier this month, 35 men and women gathered in Santa Barbara, California to discuss how to give away a major slice of their $140 billion of personal wealth. Many had already signed on to the Giving Pledge ...  

Telegraph.co.ukMike Lynch's fall from grace as 'Britain's Bill Gates'Telegraph.co.ukBy Katherine Rushton, Media, technology and telecoms editor He had struck a deal to sell his software company, Autonomy, to Hewlett-Packard for an eyewatering $10.3bn (£6.6bn), a 59pc premium on its share price at the time. There were slaps on the back ...HP tries to stop Autonomy employees exodusTimes of IndiaLynch eyes next autonomous moveFinancial TimesHP...  

co-founder Bill Gates allowing them to build their stake in the cleaning-products maker. Under the agreeement, Cascade Investment LLC and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust will be allowed to acquire up to 25% of Ecolab's outstanding shares.  

Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest This quote comes from yesterday’s New York Times column by Joe Nocera — his account of an interview with Bill Gates on Education. It seems a bit odd to me, and often I can’t … Continue reading → Read More.....(read more)  

Susan Kraemer writes at CleanTechnica, Earthtechling, and GreenProphet and has been published at Ecoseed, NRDC OnEarth, MatterNetwork, Celsius, EnergyNow and Scientific American. As a former serial entrepreneur in product design she brings an ...  

SEATTLE, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Washington State Court of Appeal (Division 1) has substantially affirmed a trial court judgment against Bill Gates owned Corbis Corporation for Fraud, Breach of Contract, Breach of the Duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing, Misappropriation of...  

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is today one of the world’s biggest philanthropists having built his business from an obscure traffic management software company to what was at one stage the world’s biggest technology corporation. But what if he’d been ...  

Bill Gates’ bold approaches to solving social challenges are ... but prevention mostly failed while the rate of pregnancy-related maternal deaths almost quadrupled and child mortality rate rose significantly. Consequently, life expectancy in Botswana ...  

By Alejandro Schuvaks:Bill Gates (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington), is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist and author. He is also the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. Throughout his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he still is the...