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Bill Gates is once again the richest person in the world
- Bill Gates is once again the richest man in the world thanks to the recent success of the company he helped create. The 57-year-old Microsoft co-founder surpassed Mexican investor Carlos Slim yesterday to reclaim the title according to the Blooomberg…
Bill Gates discusses the last time he met with Steve Jobs
- Bill Gates sat down with 60 Minutes’ Charlie Rose last night for a one-on-one interview that has many in the tech industry talking today. That’s because the co-founder of Microsoft spoke candidly about longtime rival Steve Jobs and outlined much…
Forbes: Bill Gates is the world's most generous person
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates may not be the wealthiest person in the world but he’s earned a title that may be even more valuable: world’s most generous person. Forbes’ released their ranking of the world’s richest people earlier today where…
Bill Gates discusses Steve Ballmer's leadership role, mobile mistake
- Bill Gates recently sat down for an interview with CBS’ Charlie Rose to discuss a number of topics ranging from his life after stepping down from his day-to-day activities at Microsoft almost five years ago to his work with the…
Bill Gates on Windows 8: "It's an absolutely critical product (for the future of the company)"
- Steve Clayton, who writes for Microsoft's Technet blog, recently sat down with Bill Gates to briefly discuss the Windows 8 launch and what that means to the future of the company. Not surprisingly Gates likes Windows 8 and his Windows…
Bill Gates gives Windows 8 his stamp of approval
- Microsoft’s most famous face has given Windows 8 his stamp of approval. During a recent interview with the Associated Press to discuss the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s participation in a global mission to end polio, Bill Gates made a…
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aim to reinvent the toilet
- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently held a competition that asked some of today’s brightest inventors to help solve a problem plaguing more than 2.6 billion people worldwide. The task was to reinvent the toilet without using running water,…
Weekend Open Forum: Tech innovators who deserve more attention
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With the rapid advancement of modern technology, it's increasingly humbling to look back at the computer industry's beginnings. Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Tim Berners-Lee and the late Steve Jobs are all famous for their contributions, but there are hundreds of scarcely-recognized individuals...
Bill Gates pitching fourth-gen TerraPower nuclear reactors to China
- Microsoft founder Bill Gates met with China’s largest nuclear group this week to discuss the future of the country’s nuclear energy program. Gates is the founder and primary investor of TerraPower, a nuclear reactor design firm headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. …
Bill Gates talks about his family life, philanthropy and more
- Bill Gates is not known for giving out many interviews, but the founder and former CEO of Microsoft recently sat down with Caroline Graham from U.K.'s Daily Mail to promote a pledging conference for donors and partners of the Global…
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates: "the PC is the tablet"
- Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was recently on a program called "Hard Talk." Even though the billionaire's role at the software giant isn't as important as it once was, the interview still featured a Microsoft section, and there were some interesting…
Bill Gates: I encouraged Microsoft to buy Skype
- Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is not suffering from buyer's remorse. In fact, he encouraged his company to acquire Skype. That may come as a shock to those who believed it was Ballmer who orchestrated the whole purchase, but it turns…
Bill Gates is more admired than Pope, Dalai Lama
- Americans put Bill Gates in the top 10 list of men they most admire. The Microsoft co-founder was named the fifth most admired man of 2010, according to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll (via TechFlash).
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