Bill Gates
How do billionaires become billionaires? Is it creativity? Education? Family life? Education may not be a key. Oracle founder Larry Ellison did not graduate from college. Neither did Bill Gates who...
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest philanthropy in the United States and the second largest in the world. Here's a list of the stocks included in the foundation's endowment.
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Bill Gates wants Americans to eat more synthetic beef. He says that this could help save the environment.
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America’s major market indexes set records in the early part of the year, only to be battered by an unprecedented economic pandemic brought on by the spread of COVID-19. The markets have...
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Microsoft announced Monday that there are now a billion active machines running the Windows 10 operating system. However, this goal was reached two years later than expected.
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It's one thing to have won the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract from the Department of Defense, but it's more important to consider how Microsoft might be able to use this over Amazon and AWS as the...
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The role of the world’s most valuable person by net worth has traded back and forth between Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft founder Bill Gates for a while. Both have a net worth of more...
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A SpaceX rocket botched an important government satellite launch, Intel trumpeted the future of its self-driving car technology, and other important headlines.
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The possibilities around gene editing are almost endless. Some of the goals and hopes around gene editing sound like they were pulled right out of a science fiction or futuristic film. Imagine if you...
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A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday should only serve to remind how deep the ties between Gates and Buffett go.
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Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) apparently cannot give away enough to help worthy causes. Oxfam has targeted him as one of the eight people who have wealth equal to the of the...
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While the market action since the start of the year has been very unsettling, the mere fact that insiders are jumping on the lower prices of their companies is a significant and very positive sign.
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Microsoft's new CEO, Satya Narayana Nadella, has started to shift the company's core business toward the cloud. For the time being, he has been successful.
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Satya Nadella may be the CEO of Microsoft, but the fingerprints on the company's most recent quarterly results belong to former CEO Steve Ballmer.
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Company founders may step away from CEO jobs, but they rarely give up the power that goes with them.
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