Tag: BILLGATES

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 ...

This past July, Bill Gates announced his intention to do battle with one of nature's most destructive forces -- the hurricane. Thankfully, Gates has no intention of donning a wrestling singlet and cape, and defending the Gulf Coast. Instead, the Microsoft founder is putting the power of human ingenuity to perhaps its greatest test in the protracted war between science and nature. Of course, ...

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 ...

Bill Gates Sr., father of the Microsoft mogul and soon-to-be author, previewed his new autobiographical book in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal. In the interview, the Gates family patriarch discusses seminal moments in his own life, while providing a rare glimpse into the formative years of his son, the world's wealthiest man. Gates Sr., a World War II veteran and former Seattle ...

In a recent Vogue interview, Melinda Gates confided that she's battled some iPhone envy in her day: "Every now and then I look at my friends and say 'Ooh, I wouldn't mind having that iPhone'." It's just too bad for her that Apple is forbidden fruit in the Gates household. "There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get ...

Most of you have seen the Microsoft ads featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld doing nothing in particular. While the ads weren't spectacular, they were pretty darn funny. The American public seemed to disagree, and the ads were pulled pretty quickly. Now, we may know why. In a recent New York Times article, the market research company Brand Keys found that the "Shoe Circus" ad featuring ...

Now that he no longer needs to worry about running Microsoft on a day to day basis, Bill Gates has lost his mind. After taking the stage at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, the former CEO of Microsoft declared, "Not only poor people should experience this," and let loose a swarm of mosquitoes on the crowd. It almost (but only almost) makes sense when you realize that the ...

When Bill Gates speaks about money, people listen. And according to Mr. Gates, the future is looking pretty grim: The philanthropist and former boss of a little company called Microsoft told the BBC that it could take as long as four years for the world economy to reverse its current downturn. Speaking at the World Economic Forum last week, Gates said the world's poor could not wait for ...

Before they were mortal enemies, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were just two big dorks who really liked computers, and each other! Of course, the video (check it out after the break) also predates that whole Windows thing by about seven years. This bizarre dating show, taken from an Apple Event in 1983, features a bunch of software guys in '80s-era-preppy khakis and polo shirts answering questions ...

Even if you're one of the wealthiest men in the world, given away billions of dollars, created a little thing called Windows, and have some mysterious new company on the horizon, you just can't escape some of life's more "normal" tasks. Take, for instance, the wedding of billionaire Charles Simonyi and not-as-rich-but-still-loaded socialite Lisa Persdotter. The one and only Bill Gates, and old ...