Bill Gates

Bill Gates Reclaims World’s Richest Title

Bloomberg - May 17, 2013

Bill Gates is the richest man alive again. He recaptured the title from Mexican investor Carlos Slim yesterday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Read »

Bill Gates Remembers Steve Jobs Fondly

Business Insider - May 13, 2013

Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates has fond memories of his biggest rival, Apple founder Steve Jobs. Read »

This Old Manuscript Cost Bill Gates $30 Million…

CBS - May 9, 2013

What inspires a billionaire? In the case of Bill Gates, it's a 500-year-old manuscript penned by Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci. Read »

Bill Gates: iPad Users Are Frustrated

Slash Gear - May 6, 2013

Bill Gates took a shot at the iPad while explaining Microsoft's rationale for the Surface Monday morning on CNBC. Read »

Carlos Slim Donates $100 Million To Fight Polio

Forbes - April 29, 2013

Carlos Slim announced his foundation will donate $100 million to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a Bill Gates-backed effort to eliminate polio. Read »

Gates And Ballmer Jump On The ZuckerPAC

All Things D - April 26, 2013

Mr. Zuckerberg isn’t the only tech titan scaling Capitol Hill this year — he brought friends. Read »

Actually, Time Left Off The Most Influential Billionaires

Forbes - April 24, 2013

The trouble with Time’s list is that in order to keep it fresh, the magazine shakes up the ranks each year. So while Bill Gates and Charles Koch and Mike Bloomberg wield far more influence in my opinion than Gina Rinehart... Read »

Bill Gates Teams Up With Psy…

Mashable - April 24, 2013

Through his foundation, Gates is a leader in the worldwide movement to eradicate polio. And in February, Psy joined Rotary's "This Close" campaign as a celebrity ambassador. Read »

Bill Gates’ $5 Billion Plan To Put Cameras In Classrooms

Fast Company - April 16, 2013

Actors do it. Professional athletes do it. Now Bill Gates wants the country to spend $5 billion for every teacher in every classroom in every district to be filmed in action so they can be evaluated and, maybe, improve. Read »

Ridiculously Random Facts About 12 Famous CEOs

CEO.com - April 5, 2013

CEOs aren’t actually made of suits, ties and handshakes. Like anyone else, they’ve got their quirks. From cupcake obsessions to secret rescue missions, here are several ridiculously interesting facts you probably didn't... Read »

Bill Gates Recreates Iconic Photo

Mashable - April 4, 2013

Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen have recreated a picture they once took back in the 1980s, rekindling nostalgia from that era and showing the once-estranged duo is no longer on the outs. Read »

Bill Gates Is Looking For A Condom

Alligator - April 2, 2013

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is offering a startup grant of $100,000 to whoever can create the “next generation condom.” Read »

What Famous CEOs Looked Like When They Were Young

Business Insider - April 1, 2013

What did today's most famous people in tech look like when they were young? Read »

Bill Gates Is Really Gaining On Slim Fast

Forbes - March 19, 2013

The gap between Carlos Slim and number two Bill Gates has shrunk from $6 billion a month ago, when the billionaire ranks were published, to approximately half a billion. Read »

Bill Gates Bashes Capitalism

Wired - March 15, 2013

Bill Gates bashed capitalism saying that that there is much more research into male baldness than there is into diseases such as malaria, which mostly affect poor people. Read »