Tag: BILL GATES

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to encourage college freshmen to stay in school -- and it's counting on social networking to help. Today, the organization is expected to announce a $2 million investment in a company called Inigral, which sets up school-specific Facebook sites at colleges around the country. Unlike Facebook pages devoted to particular colleges or universities, ...

Bill Gates sat down with Katie Couric for a little one-on-one yesterday, and the conversation naturally turned to the current events in Egypt. For his part, the Microsoft founder wasn't terribly shocked that Hosni Mubarak managed to shut down the Internet across the country. "It's not that hard to shut the Internet down if you have military power, where you can tell people that's what's going to ...

If there's one universal opinion about the series of Microsoft ads featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, it's that they were confusing as all get out. If Microsoft marketing strategist David Weber is to be believed, that was the whole point. In an interview with TechFlash, Weber explained, "We figured that that sort of obscure nature of the communications would make people lean in a ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Gallup has been gauging the public's attitude about nuclear power since 1994, and the organization is claiming that support for the energy source is now at an all-time high. That's great news for Toshiba and TerraPower (which is partially funded by energy-vacuum Bill Gates), the two of which are reportedly discussing a plan to ...

Highlights form this morning's other big tech headlines.... Forbes has released its Croesus rankings of the world's wealthiest billionaires, and the list includes an impressive team of nerd all-stars, including Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt and Steve Ballmer. He may not own the overall top billionaire spot anymore (that honor going to Carlos Slim), but Bill Gates still leads the tech rankings ...

Share With all the focus on the new iPad, Bill Gates may need to let loose once in a while -- hence his boogieing till the wee hours during a Bing-sponsored blowout at the Sundance Film Festival. According to a "spy" for the New York Post's Page Six, the Microsoft founder-cum-compulsive philanthropist was seen "gyrating" in a VIP booth till 2 a.m. during a performance by John Legend and the ...

Bill Gates hasn't exactly helped to dispel the 'Revenge of the Nerds' stereotype of dorks as socially awkward, outcast bookworms with horrid fashion sense. When the dork extraordinaire first appeared on 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart in 2007, he only acerbated that ridiculously geeky and uncomfortable public image. Perhaps his bohemian globetrotting has served as a journey of self ...

If following Bill Gates on Twitter just wasn't doing it for you, then hold on to your panties, Windows fans. Billy-G has launched a new Web site, called The Gates Notes, as a way to chronicle his experiences traveling the world and to share conversations he's had with experts about the issues most important to him. The site, essentially a meticulously categorized blog, offers distinct ...

So, get this: Bill Gates is on Twitter. Care? No, neither did we, particularly. But it's apparently big news around the Interwebs that the Microsoft founder has hopped aboard the 140-character social networking bandwagon. At the moment, the official @BillGates account is only following 40 other accounts, mostly those of charities related to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with a few ...

Have you ever wanted a personal tour of a celebrity home? We're talking full-blown, 'MTV Cribs' style. Well, if you're a Microsoft employee with a fat wallet, that dream can become a reality. According to Tech Flash, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is auctioning off a personal tour of his gigantic house on Lake Washington as part of a yearly charity campaign within the company. Just how much ...

Ever wonder what Bill Gates's desk looks like? How he sets up his PC to get things done? Well, you need wonder no longer, friend. The man himself has decided to share in a blog post, at Inside Office Online, exactly what his desktop looks like. ...

At the end of the day, being the most popular guy online was just too much for Bill Gates. What with spending all that money he made from running a software giant, working to cure AIDS, and -- we're sure -- flying around to fight crime at night, there's not much time for social networking. So, Bill Gates quit Facebook. According to Yahoo! Tech, Gates told a crowd in New Delhi that he had ...

Oh, Bill Gates. Is there anything you can't do? The tech tycoon's path from college dropout to billionaire CEO has been well documented, but the man's enduring legacy may focus more on his post-Microsoft accomplishments. Gates has promised hundreds of millions of dollars to help impoverished countries with farming, and has also claimed that he will leave the bulk of his vast fortune to charity. ...

Very few scientists are blessed with the ability to explain physics and detailed theories and equations without eliciting yawns from their audience, but Richard Feynman is one them. Most people think of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking when they think of "scientists," but Feynman is one of science's greatest ambassadors (and the 1965 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics). Known for his work ...

According to Bill Gates, the key to digging the U.S. out of the recession is technology. Reuters reports that the former head of Microsoft told a group of high-level executives gathered at Microsoft's annual CEO summit, "the opportunities for innovation are stronger today than ever." Gates believes that the software and IT revolution are still in their formative stages -- and that it's up to IT ...