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[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...  

Bill Gates is a walking talking Bill Gates commercial. It matters not that he retired from Microsoft. The Bill Gates image is still very serious business. Arguably his most famous quote is "Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.  

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.  

Recorded Future, a company that’s organizing the Web for analytics, has secured $12 million in Series C funding to expand further ... put $100 million into the business in March to enable it to buy up the stakes of its long-time venture ...  

Liquid Metal Battery Corp. of Cambridge announced today it has raised an additional $15 million in funding, completing its Series B round. The company’s Series A round investors, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the energy company Total, fully ...  

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.  

Ecolab Inc. moved on Monday to allow Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates to increase his ownership stake in the St. Paul company to as much as 25 percent. Ecolab (NYSE: ECL) said in a news release that it has entered into an agreement with Cascade Investment and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust to allow the Gates investment vehicles to acquire up to 25 percent of the maker of hospital and restaurant cleaning products. Gates...  

Bangalore: The venture capital firm co-founded by Vinod Khosla is leading a $15 Million second round funding towards Liquid Metal Battery. Started by MIT professor Donald Sadoway, the company has already bagged investments from high profile investors like ...  

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. The technology behind the company was ...  

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)  

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, a pact pushed by software tycoon Bill Gates and ...  

Liquid Metal Battery, a startup developing a battery for the power grid that already counted Bill Gates and oil giant Total as an investor, has now brought on another high profile backer: Khosla Ventures.  

Microsoft founder Bill Gates will stop funding programmes aimed at controlling HIV/AIDS in India by 2013 and hand over the project to the government, a decade after his eponymous foundation agreed to pitch in to support the cause of those affected by the ...  

#carauctions Back in 1979 when he was just a rich guy rather than the rich guy, Bill Gates purchased the Porsche Turbo seen here. 33 years later, the car is scheduled to sell at an Austrian auction next month. More »  

Bioengineer Todd Coleman receives $100,000 in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to study the feasibility of using tattoo-like electronic devices to monitor the vital signs of pregnant women.  

A devoted dad of three, in March his eldest daughter's love of horseback riding prompted a six-month lease on a mansion near an equestrian festival in Palm Beach, Florida, at a cost of $1 million. The rental provides 7,300 sq ft and eight bedrooms to watch ...  

Gates' Cascade Investment Corp. and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have been buying Ecolab shares since 2010. "Cascade and the Foundation Trust have demonstrated a record of making significant investments in companies for the long-term and ...  

From Columbia Business School in New York City, CNBC brings together two of the most successful men in business -- Bill Gates and Warren Buffett -- for an hour-long question and answer session with students, hosted by Becky Quick. Together, Quick and ...  

Or, in tonight's incarnation: some guy pressing play on a laptop. Carlos Slim surpasses Bill Gates according to Mexican Financial Website. Bill Gates becomes the richest American 14th time in a row. Mayawati government brings â??UP Organised ...  

Some 500 more libraries may be included in the Global Libraries Bulgaria project, Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev announced after meeting with Bill Gates in the US. The program has already helped 960 libraries in 895 Bulgarian communities, 71% of them based in villages. The computers in many of these libraries are said to be used for EU fund project applications and job applications. ...  

A few months ago, Bill Gates wrote an Op-Ed article in this newspaper objecting to New York City's plan to make public the performance rankings of its teachers. His central point was that this kind of public shaming was hardly going to bring ...  

A 1979 Porsche 911 Turbo that was purchased new by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is scheduled to cross the auction block in Vienna, Austria, on June 6th of this year. Story has it that Gates, a well-known Porsche enthusiast, purchased the 911 in ...  

Car collectors have a shot at owning a 1979 Porsche 911 Turbo bought by Bill Gates during a petrol headed youth that ... The posting of the car for sale has sparked numerous internet reminiscences of Gates’ wild ways during the heady days in which ...  

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 ...  

When we asked iReporters to send their questions for a CNN interview with Bill Gates last month ... The Foundation agreed to answer some more! Roy Steiner, a deputy director in the agricultural program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ...  

Ecolab Inc. ECL struck an agreement with two entities tied to Microsoft Corp. MSFT co-founder Bill Gates allowing them to build their stake in the cleaning-products maker. Under the agreement, Cascade Investment LLC and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust will be allowed to acquire up to 25% of Ecolab's outstanding shares.  

Bill Gates has bought heavily into flight services company BBA Aviation following a volatile year for the company, as its shares came under pressure due to a rights issue and muted global growth. Gates upped his holdings in the company from 23 ...  

Photos courtesy Dorotheum While Bill Gates is more famously associated with another Porsche, the 959 that helped shape U.S. doctrine on the import of cars, it wasn’t 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 [...]  

With press lanyards swinging around their necks, and walking with the swagger and confidence of true Wall Street Journalists, three former Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press (SBMS) alums were the only 16 year olds at the WSJ sponsored ECO:nomics Summit’s high profile conference at the Bacara this week. They were also the only ones to score an interview with world-renowned entrepreneur and philanthropist, Bill Gates. These three...  

GEORGE Rathmann, a chemist who transformed Amgen into one of the world's largest biotechnology firms in the 1980s and later co-founded the company that manufactured the anti-impotence drug Cialis, has died of kidney disease at his home in Palo Alto ...  

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...  

The first-ever Porsche owned by Bill Gates, a 1979 911 Turbo that he purchased a few years after founding Microsoft with Paul Allen, is now up for bid in Austria. Sources say that Gates liked to go on high-speed excursions with his Porsche on the desert ...  

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 ...  

Over the years I’ve spent more time than I care to admit doing research on Bill Gates’ old cars, trying to figure out if a Lexus that was up for sale on eBay had truly ... They have the papers connecting the car to Gates, with the same ...  

Bill Gates has had plenty ideas that were too far ahead of their time: he was a big proponent of tablet computers a decade before the iPad came out, and he told Microsoft that search would be important way back in 1995. But sometimes his vision was a little too rooted in the present. Former Xbox chief Robbie Bach told a crowd at an entrepreneurs conference this morning that Bill Gates wanted to put a modem in the first Xbox. It took weeks to...  

Do you want to buy Bill Gates' old Porsche 911 that he bought a few years ... The 1979 pearlescent turquoise Porsche 911 Turbo model has only done 138,000 kilometres. The car has an excellent maintenance and repair record. Described as suitable for the ...  

When Bill Gates speaks, the world tends to listen. The second-richest man on the planet is treated like a god when he opens his mouth. He’s still chairman of Microsoft. The billions of dollars of donations he has made through the Bill & Melinda Gates ...  

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 ...  

A Porsche 911 once belonging to Bill Gates is to go under the hammer in Vienna, Austria, on June 2. The 1979 turquoise Turbo model bought brand new just four years after he set up his software business in 1975 is expected to sell for up to $ ...  

Here's a neat photo Bill Gates tweeted out. He's playing ping pong with Warren Buffett against Ariel Hsing, an Olympic ping pong player Buffett discovered. For more on that, click here > Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »  

Thanks to Ken Segall’s new book about Apple, Insanely Simple, we have heard about how Steve Jobs was willing to dress up as Willy Wonka, and how he felt about the negative reaction to the infamous hockey puck mouse. Here are three more great anecdotes about Jobs from the book. They include Jobs asking the [...]Related StoriesGood: iPad Accounts For 97.3% Of Business Tablets, iPhone 4S For 37% Of Business SmartphonesCould This MIT Wooden DIY...  

A foundation spokesman told Roll Call that it does not plan to make future grants to the conservative nonprofit ... and intimidation to silence political opposition in the run-up to Election 2012 this November.  

The Puget Sound Business Journal announces Social Madness: A Corporate Social Media Challenge, presented by Capital One Spark Business. This a local and national challenge that will spotlight the best social media programs of companies in 43 cities.  

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...  

Corbis, the digital image company owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, must pay $12.75 million in damages as part of a three-year fraud and breach of contract case brought by Infoflows, according to a decision by the Washington State Court ...  

Porsche enthusiasts take note: Bill Gates' former Porsche 911 turbo is slated for auction June 2 in Austria. According to Tech Flash, Gates purchased the 1979 car not long after launching Microsoft.  

"From this day forward when I am in the room, I will control the sound. I am Bill Gates and never forget it." With Bill Gates' help, however, I have brought peace and tranquility into what had become a rather tricky situation. It's not quite a ...  

Manchester University researcher Sarah Haigh is working on a device which would turn toilet waste into fuel and drinking water. Her research, which is being funded by billionaire Bill Gates, could transform the lives of millions of people in the third world.  

It is never too late to have a dangerous childhood, and it is never too late for a dropout such as Bill Gates to go back to school -- even if for only one online course.According to Phil Giudice, the CEO of a battery startup called Liquid Metal Battery, his company found their most high profile investor, Bill Gates, through a more unusual way: the classroom. ...Gates started taking a class from Liquid Metal Battery founder and MIT Professor...  

This week, two countries at the center of the European debt crisis will hold elections; and in some ways, the eurozone is a lot like a bar. In New York City, One World Trade Center will become the tallest building in the city. And when can spying on workers actually be a good thing?  

Apple and Google’s ascent are directly related to Bill Gates’ decision to step down as Microsoft's CEO. So how did they end up with such completely different strategies? Mark Sigal examines seven attributes of Microsoft's playbook and looks at how the two companies have responded.  

Bill Gates and two of India’s best-known moguls will promote philanthropy among the country’s growing tycoon class in a private June 1 gathering in Bangalore, Forbes reports. The Microsoft co-founder will join Azim Premji, head of software firm Wipro ...  

And now, Bill Gates went on CNBS today to try and explain the great error in investing in the barbarous relic. It's like they're trotting out the billionaire boys club to scare people back into Berkshire and Microsoft stock.  

India's clean tech research “abysmal,” says PachauriIn contrast, “there is no getting away from the fact that in some of these cutting-edge technologies innovations will probably originate more from the U.S. than anywhere else,” he said. Describing the extent and intensity of research that takes place in U.S. universities as “quite amazing,” Dr. Pachauri argued that neither Europe nor any other part of the world was as yet at the same level...  

In an interview with NPR today, Bill Gates: said if Microsoft didn’t have evaluations, “it wouldn’t have worked.” He said that seniority and educational degrees didn’t correlate with “who was writing the best code.” I “tweeted” this NPR interview when...(read more)  

Excerpt:   "Next time you see a dog lapping thirstily at a toilet bowl, pause for thought - next time, it could be you.   A new invention - funded by Bill Gates - aims to turn used toilet water into drinking water.   Manchester University’s Sarah Haigh is an expert in nanotechnology - the science of manipulating atoms in matter - and says, it could make waste water from toilets safe to drink."[^] "While I complain of being able to glimpse no...  

In the last few months, the story of Bill Gates and the temperature and lighting of his home has made its way back to the surface of my brain. To be frank, Taylor Swift forced the issue. As you may have noticed, there are a lot of gadgets in ...  

Ethiopia: Meles Zenawi meets with Bill Gates in Addis Ababa Addis Ababa — Prime Minister Meles Zenawi here on Wednesday held talks with a delegation led by Bill Gates founder and co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prime Minister Meles o…Original post  

John Hope Bryant, the founder of Operation HOPE, knows the importance of financial education. His organization launched the 700 Credit Score initiative to help those in the black community who struggle with average creditscores that make them vulnerable to predatory...  

Dear Bill Gates, Glyn Moody, and Gartner analysts: it's time to eat crow. All of these folks predicted that Linux was overhyped and would never make serious money.  Now that Red Hat has officially posted more than a billion dollars in revenue, ($1.13 billion to be exact), the company's PR department sent us this funny list of quotes predicting doom. "Linux is the hype du jour." Gartner, 1999. "We think of Linux as a competitor in the...  

Bill Gates released his third annual letter this week. The letter is part a Year In Review of the human challenges the Gates Foundation works to address -- global health, agriculture, and education -- and part treatise on Gates' views and priorities for ...  

Bill Gates is touting the technology of TerraPower LLC, a Bellevue company he's invested in that is trying to harness the power of spent uranium; this time at a conference in California. The Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch reports the Microsoft Corp. co-founder spoke at a Journal event Thursday night, saying that if there's going to be a carbon-neutral future, drastic measures like TerraPower's design concept are going to have to be used...  

Bill Gates & Clean Toilet Water Story of the Day. The Gates Foundation has given a grant to Manchester University to develop a method for turning toilet water into clean drinking water. [engadget]. Incorrect source or offensive ...  

Genetically engineered organisms might wreck the cycle of existence but they provide a synthetic cycle, not of life but of profit. Courtesy: africanbrains.net (NEW YORK ) - The destruction of our earth is coming from the massive industries behind fossil ...  

Addis Ababa — Bill Gates, Founder and Manager of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation who is here on a two-day visit, said Ethiopia has registered a marked improvement in many areas particularly in the health sector. Gates, who is here in Ethiopia for ...  

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett took a break from Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders meeting last weekend in Omaha to play a friendly game of table tennis. What should the caption be for this photo of the Microsoft chairman and the Berkshire ...  

LAGOS  (AFP) – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave a $12-million (nine-million-euro) grant Monday to a project aimed at boosting yam production and doubling the income of west African farmers of the crop. It is the foundation’s largest grant ...  

In India, Monsanto hired Bollywood actors to promote genetically engineered cotton seed to illiterate farmers. Nana Petakar became a brand ambassador for Monsanto. The advertising has been called “aggressive, unscrupulous and false.”  

56-year-old Bill Gates and 81-year-old Warren Buffett lost control of their balls yesterday -- getting their asses WHOOPED by a teenage ping pong prodigy in Nebraska ... and the footage is hilarious.Bill and Warren were in town for some business…  

I will always remember Wednesday 25th January 2012 as the day Deptford Green welcomed American business magnate, billionaire, philanthropist and author, Mr Bill Gates to the school. I applied to the charity Speakers for Schools when I saw it advertised ...  

AURORA — Dreams can come true. If you need proof, talk to East Aurora High School senior Brian Nunez. As the recipient of the coveted Gates Millennium Scholarship, Nunez will receive an all-expenses-paid post-secondary education — right up through a ...  

Now, here’s a pairing we’d love to see at GeekWire’s upcoming ping-pong tournament. At the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting earlier this week, billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett busted out some ping pong paddles to take on U.S ...  

Stealing from babies is easy and low. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates makes himself feel powerful while negligently ripping off babies. I am a capitalist. I defend entrepreneurs. However, I think young people and their parents should know that ...  

The towering hedge that once kept the public away from Bill Gates' bachelor pad has disappeared, and so apparently has the two-decades-long war that had some Laurelhurst neighbors up in arms - or at least pruning shears. The park-encroachment land dispute ...  

May 7 (Reuters) - Cleaning services company Ecolab Inc said it agreed to allow two entities controlled by Bill Gates to raise their stake to 25 percent, higher than the limit set by the company's...  

Companies & Industries If Bill Gates were black, it would be less important that President Barack Obama is black. This is no slight to President Obama. It is an acknowledgment that while the route to success has changed, for too...  

In town for the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting this weekend, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates play a game of table tennis with San Jose Olympian Ariel Hsing at Regency Court. This was a rematch. In 2007, Buffett and Gates faced off ...  

His name is William (Bill) Gates. Sign-up for my 100% FREE Alerts In an interview with CNBC’s Becky Quick, Gates agreed with Warren Buffett’s negative assessment of holding gold during a financial crisis. As Gates’ eyes shifted off to the ...  

[ENA] Addis Ababa - Prime Minister Meles Zenawi here on Wednesday held talks with a delegation led by Bill Gates founder and co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  

(TrendHunter.com) The Bill Gates environment keynote discusses energy and climate and the long term challenges these two things currently pose for the world’s populations. Gates explains how climbing temperatures...  

They are both included in a list that highlights how even the brightest and the best have got it spectacularly wrong. The list of the ten worst predictions is published by T3, the gadget magazine. Bill Gates back in 1981 allegedly said that nobody would ...  

All day, every day the market is open ... If it hasn't happened in seven days after the first entry, my trading system closes the trade and starts looking for other opportunities. If the trade does become profitable by the 3rd third entry ...  

It takes a huge bat to go against San Jose's Ariel Hsing, who was challenged to a table tennis match against billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates during the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., on May 6.  

London, Apr 7 : A new invention, which is being funded by Bill Gates, aims to filter toilet waste back into "drinkable" water. According to Manchester University's Sarah Haigh, who is an expert in nanotechnology, which is the science of manipulating atoms ...  

Will Facebook's Zuckerberg be the next Bill Gates of philanthropy?Washington PostGoogle CEO Larry Page in 2004, just before the company went public, pledged to transform philanthropy by dedicating about 1 percent of the company's profits to good causes. Through Google's Project X, a "blue sky" laboratory, Google has tried to come ...and more »  

The Global Fund receives money from 54 countries and charitable foundations such as (Product) Red, which is supported by rock star Bono. Other prominent backers of the Fund include former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan, French first lady Carla Bruni ...  

Although we may not have the resources to hire an executive search firm to conduct a nationwide search to fill the role, we can benefit from using a similar, disciplined approach to finding a financial advisor.  In future posts we will delve ...  

Next time you see a dog lapping thirstily at a toilet bowl, pause for thought - next time, it could be you. A new invention - funded by Bill Gates - aims to turn used toilet water into drinking water. Manchester University’s Sarah Haigh is an expert in ...  

BANGALORE, INDIA: Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates is a superhero as he has touched many lives. Now, there is a comic with colorful illustrations illustrating his life. The graphic novel titled "Bill Gates: Co-Founder of Microsoft" will ...  

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Logos Bible Software might seem an odd company to bring the previously untranslated works of Thomas Aquinas to the masses. Indeed, it might seem an odd company to bring us holy books, period. Then again, perhaps it is only ...  

Bill Gates says that we don’t have enough innovators or great minds to meet the challenges of the future. And the way to draw more people into thinking big and out of the box is to change how we teach students. The founder of Microsoft challenges ...  

Robert Evans, “The Kid Stays in the Picture” I’ve been ruminating on how Apple and Google could have come up with such divergent takeaways from studying the incredible, terrifyingly dominant run of Microsoft under Bill Gates. For those too young to ...  

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was ...  

Wealthy people across the world are following Microsoft founder Bill Gates' example in giving a fortune to those who are less fortunate. Forbes reports 12 more of America's wealthiest have added their names to the Giving Pledge, which Bill and Melinda ...  

Today, Bill Gates died, a family represenative said. This came unexpectedly, as it seemed like he was a healthy man. It is also unfortunate, considering all he did with building the current Technological world. It is currently unknown what his cause of ...  

There are now 81 billionaires committed to giving at least half of their fortunes to charity, thanks to 12 new families and individuals who have signed on to Bill Gates' and Warren Buffett's "Giving Pledge." Among the new additions to the pledge ...  

Bill Gates Never Ran an Energy CompanyHuffington Post (blog)Last year, Bill Gates noted in an interview with Alan Murray of the Wall Street Journal that technologies like solar photovoltaics and LED lights were "cute" but could never deal with the bigger issue of climate change and powering the developing world ...and more »  

That’s right, according to an informal poll conducted by Aaron Goldman, Chief Marketing Officer of Kenshoo, Morgan Freeman is the most logical voice of search. Conducting a “Family Feud” style panel discussion at the Search Insider Summit, Goldman ...  

Ronaldo Silva is back in police custody after an outrageous escape from a Penedo prison in Brazil. Silva switched clothes with his wife during a visit, shaved his legs, donned a wig, and walked right out the front door. He was captured a short time later ...  

Bill Gates’ choice of Belize for his family’s spring vacation is another indication that the small Caribbean country has matured as a world-class tourism destination catering to a wide range of people while still retaining its intimate appeal, the ...  

Bill Gates vows to defeat hunger & diseases in Ethiopia: Could entrenched ...AbugidainfoPrime Minister Meles Zenawi has finally come full circle. Over the decades, he has thrived on controversies, some of which he fostered, and stil does, with unmatched skills and perfect timing. They have served his purpose of staying in power as long to ...and more »  

“One thing you really notice is how similarly kids respond to the rainforest environment ... box and “make a wish” poem all young visitors to Chaa Creek find in their rooms upon arrival at Chaa Creek. The girls then enjoyed a pizza and pasta lunch ...  

We recently profiled Waste Management (WM), comparing it to seven waste services-related companies. Our analysis confirmed our view that Republic Services (RSG) is a more attractive play on waste services. Two of the largest investors in the world have ...  

RENOWNED business executive and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates has congratulated the Zambia soccer team for winning the Africa Cup trophy at the recent Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals in Gabon. Zambia defeated a star-studied Ivory Coast in Libreville 8 ...  

WORLD renowned Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates is visiting Zambia with a pledge to finance HIV, malaria and child vaccination programmes. Mr Gates, who is chairperson of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said Zambia was expected to have a new ...  

Cue Bill Gates, from his 2011 CNN interview with Sanjay Gupta ... was causing autism; that preservative is not longer in routine childhood vaccines, but there are no data supporting this worry. Large studies have failed to show any signal ...  

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was ...  

Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and one of the richest persons in the world reportedly spends $1 million for his 15-year-old daughter Jennifer Gates. Jennifer will be seen competing in the Winter Equestrian Festival , in one of the children’s...  

Last Thursday, at the Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics conference in Santa Barbara, Bill Gates talked with several hundred CEO’s and corporate leaders about why and how he has accelerated his involvement in clean energy solutions. “My foundation is ...  

Last week, Bill Gates mentioned that he’s involved with an energy storage company that was basically “gravel on ski lifts” at the Eco:nomics Conference organized by the Wall Street Journal. (Thank you, Katie Fehrenbacher, for attending.) (See video ...  

AMSTERDAM: Bill Gates has asked the Dutch government not to cut foreign aid as part of its current discussions on how to comply with European rules limiting deficit spending. In a telephone interview with Dutch state broadcaster NOS, the Microsoft founder ...  

Microsoft founder Bill Gates stopped by the Bacara to talk about a different kind of technology: energy. Though Gates made his mark with computers and his philanthropic foundation focuses on education and humanitarian work, cheap energy is important for both.  

Bill Gates is touting the technology of TerraPower LLC, a Bellevue company he's invested in that is trying to harness the power of spent uranium; this time at a conference in California. The Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch reports the Microsoft Corp. co ...  

Mistakes are a blessing; and 3. Theory is theory, not a solution 1 ... But, no one is saying it is the only solution — just a compelling piece of the puzzle. In fact, there is no silver bullet. We must find efficiencies and new solutions ...  

Bill Gates is of course better known as the co-founder of ... Gates said parents looking at evaluations could lead to a rush of them trying to get their kids in classrooms with the highly rated teachers and that's a "zero-sum game," he said ...  

Story Created: Mar 22, 2012 at 2:13 PM PDT Story Updated: Mar 22, 2012 at 2:25 PM PDT Microsoft co-Founder Bill Gates is scheduled to speak Thursday night at the ECO:nomics forum at Bacara Resort & Spa. The Microsoft billionaire chairman heads the list of ...  

Numerous problems with the polio vaccination program in India have surfaced with charges that the program has not only saddled the Indian government with health program costs, but also exposed the public to new risk factors such as 47,500 cases of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis caused by the vaccine itself. Those cases were all reported in the year 2011 alone—the same year India was declared “polio-free.” Related studies show that polio...  

The Government has come in for harsh criticism over its pledge to raise foreign donations in line with UN targets which will see the aid budget rise to £10.6 billion in 2014-15. But Microsoft founder Mr Gates urged Britons to be proud of the positive ...  

Gates said likelihood of meeting clean-energy goals in next few decades is "very daunting" At a conference for green investors, Microsoft Corp.founder Bill Gates said that research funding for clean energy needs to at least double in order to see a viable, investor-attractive source of clean energy to reduce carbon emissions.  

Of his $61 billion fortune, he has an estimated $45 billion invested outside Microsoft via Cascade Investment LLC ... and today the company sports a $17 billion market capitalization. Two executives from Ecolab were in San Francisco on Wednesday ...  

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is back in the news, talking about the importance of nuclear power. And while the software titan is bullish on the energy source, it will likely be another decade until we see a nuclear reactor from the Bellevue ...  

Jennifer Gates has been competing in the Winter Equestrian Festival – a 12-week event with weekly competitions, confirmed Equestrian Sport Productions spokesperson Jennifer Wood. The event wraps up on April 1 and included an Olympic selection trial.  

At a conference for green investors, Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates said that research funding for ... the conference touched on topics such as green jobs and nuclear power. Gov. Jerry Brown is scheduled to speak Friday morning at a panel ...  

Travellers to Belize can enjoy unprecedented savings at the country’s best … Full Story »Chaa Creek Kicks Off Super Tuesday Bill Gates Family Goes Green in Belize … Bill Gates’ choice of Belize for his family’s spring vacation is another ...  

"I'm just a relentlessly curious person who loves understanding things right," says management guru Jim Collins about himself. And it is this relentless curiosity that has led Jim to study enduring companies -how they grow, how they attain ...  

If Bill ever invites you to his house and offers you something to drink, insist on something in a sealed container. The Daily Mail reports: A new invention – funded by Bill Gates – aims to turn used toilet water into drinking water.  

Sapphire Energy, a start-up that’s growing and harvesting algae to convert into crude oil, completed a rare feat, closing one of the largest clean-technology venture capital deals in the past 12 months at $144 million. “Renewable liquid ...  

Edward Hancox takes a look at Reykjavik from a dog’s perspective. Something that hasn’t always been easy. more Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of a Lutheran confirmation, a longstanding tradition in Iceland.  

The interview features Jobs weighing in on Bill Gates, of whom he said had “no taste,” and former Apple CEO John Sculley, who is known to have single-handedly pushed Apple into bankruptcy before Jobs’ second coming in 1997. In the interview ...  

Hitachi and Microsoft Collaborate to Enhance Global Cloud BusinessMarketWatch (press release)Hitachi, Ltd. and Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. today announced that they collaboratively provide global cloud solutions by combination of Hitachi Cloud Computing Solutions and Microsoft(R) global data center. Hitachi cloud computing solution will be ...and more »  

Microsoft releases Office 2011 SP2 for OS XCNETThe update mainly focuses on Outlook, but also covers some features of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. by Topher Kessler April 12, 2012 4:21 PM PDT Microsoft announced on its Office for Mac Blog today that it has made its Service Pack 2 for Office for Mac ...Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.2.0TidBITSMicrosoft Releases Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2Mac RumorsMicrosoft Office for Mac Service Pack...  

TechSpotMicrosoft Leak: IE 10 Release Date, Other Product Details Revealed?PC MagazineBy Damon Poeter Leaked Microsoft product roadmap slides suggests that the software giant plans to release Internet Explorer 10 sometime in the middle of this year, that beta versions of the next iterations of Office, SharePoint, Exchange, ...Microsoft roadmap leaks for Office 15, IE 10 and more key productsZDNet (blog)Leaked: Microsoft Roadmaps for Office 15...  

Wired NewsMicrosoft Forms Subsidiary to Engage With Open Source CommunitiesPCWorldBy Paul Krill, Infoworld Microsoft on Thursday is spinning out a wholly owned subsidiary to bridge the gap between proprietary Microsoft technologies and non-Microsoft technologies in mixed IT environments by engaging with open source and standards ...Microsoft Spawns Standards-Setting SubsidiaryWired NewsMicrosoft folds interoperability team into open-source...  

The DrumYammer Drums Up Tight Microsoft Office IntegrationInformationWeekWith the acquisition of a 10-person software company from Scotland, Yammer believes it's about to vault ahead of competitors in the race to revolutionize work on the Web--even when the work is done in Microsoft Office. Yammer has purchased OneDrum, ...Yammer nabs oneDrum for Google Docs, Microsoft Office toolsZDNet (blog)Yammer buys OneDrum for Microsoft Office social...  

ForbesMicrosoft to Start Charging for Bing Search APIPCWorldBy Cameron Scott, IDG News Microsoft will begin charging developers to use the API (application programming interface) for its Bing search engine, the company announced Thursday. Developers will pay a minimum monthly subscription fee of US$40, ...Microsoft Swap Bing for Facebook Shares? That'd Be a Good Trade, Says NomuraBarron's (blog)Microsoft's answer to Amazon's CloudSearch: Bing...