Bill Gates reveals that the debate and conflict over GM foods are threatening the efforts of The Gates Foundation in its attempt to end world hunger. ‘An “ideological wedge” threatens his global effort to help farmers.’
Over the recent years, The Gates Foundation has been ‘helping alleviate hunger and poverty by giving small farmers the tools [...]

Microsoft founder Bill Gates decided to contribute in an unusual way to combat malaria: bet on sweets. Through his charitable foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates, the billionaire gave on Tuesday $ 100,000 for unconventional solutions to world problems. Disease, two proposals have drawn attention. One speaks of gum, the other in chocolate.
The first idea, [...]

Billionaires are obviously ambitious, smart, and very, very, very lucky. There are, however, some surprisingly common traits among them. Here are the trends that presented themselves.
The most common professions among the parents of American billionaires were engineer, accountant, and small-business owner – all math-related careers. They have passed on the mathematical prowess to their offspring, [...]

After taking the world by a storm with Microsoft and reaching PC to households all over the world, Bill Gates is getting ready to tame the hurricanes. He is supporting climate scientists and inventors working on a system that can slow down hurricanes by lowering ocean temperatures. His name figures among the patent seekers for [...]

Well, well education really seems to have lost popularity in one of the most developed nations on the globe. Non-Profit Organisations and major corporate bodies of U.S. are launching “Get Schooled” initiative at Paramount Pictures Lot in Hollywood on Sept 8. The main aim is to reform the nation’s public schools and promote education.
Among big [...]

With little success caused by Windows Mobile 6.5 and the Zune media player, columnists from various sites on the Internet begin to speculate and encourage the purchase of Palm by Microsoft. The rumors started from the official release of WebOS, Palm’s new operating system based on Linux.
The giant of Bill Gates should buy Palm? George [...]

Facebook is a popular destination for people to connect with friends, make news friends and keep abreast of everything that is happening in most everyone’s lives. The social networking site has increased in popularity over the years and the fact that a number of celebrities admit to having a Facebook account has only increased the [...]

Bill Gates’ charitable organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is what occupies most of the billionaire’s time, interest, and focus these days. The organization is very much involved in healthcare, especially the access to it by the poorest nations on earth. Since stepping down from the day to day operations of Microsoft, he has involved himself with such [...]

Those who have a lot can do a lot. Bill Gates, David Rockefeller Sr., Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett were just some of the top billionaires and most prominent philanthropists who held a secret meeting in New York, not so much to discuss how lucky they have been down the road but to talk about some [...]

Bill Gates is arguably the number one business leader that the past quarter-century has produced. An instinctive innovator and incurable entrepreneur for most of his life, he started what would be a long career in programming computers at the tender age of 13. He quit Harvard in his junior year to develop what would eventually [...]