Tag Archives : Bill Gates

GSV Capital, a publicly traded closed-end mutual fund, buying 225,000 shares of the social networking giant Facebook at an average price of $29.28 per share has stirred the markets big time. Since the news started doing the rounds of the market, the Faecebook stocks have gained 40% and have traded even higher on the secondary market. Forbes had estimated [...]

As the saying goes, ‘‘no good deed goes unnoticed’’, it could very well be the reason why both Carlos Slim and Bill Gates keep getting richer day by day. Both, considered to be two of the world’s wealthiest men have been known to be donating generous amounts of money to healthcare concerns across the globe. Now, Mr. Gates and Mr. Slim announced [...]

Yahoo announced on Monday (19 / 4) hiring a former Microsoft executive as its chief product manager. From 17 / 5, the former corporate vice president for Windows Live platform, Blake Irving, will assume the position of Chief Product Officer at Yahoo. Blake Irving officer in a statement said that “Yahoo! Has an impressive product portfolio and [...]

Bill Gates is in touch with reality. He refuses to ride the global warming alarmist propaganda bandwagon. Bradford Plumer in The New Republic mentions the recent TED Conference in Long Beach where Gates ‘told the audience that climate change was the world’s most vexing problem, but that it would take “energy miracles” for the world to zero out [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 this system. According [...]

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 Kurian, [...]