Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Gates Foundation, U.S. Government Back Cellphone Banking for Haiti

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 10, 2011 at 10:35 am PT

Digicel has been given a $2.5 million grant for being the first company to establish mobile banking in Haiti. It’s part of $10 million in funding established to boost cellphone-based savings in the impoverished and quake-stricken country. Even before the quake, only one in 10 Haitians had access to traditional banking services.

Weekend Update, 02.07.09

Beth Callaghan in News on February 7, 2009 at 4:24 pm PT

What spreads faster than economic gloom and doom, and is more infectious than professional anxiety? That phenomenon known as “25 Things.” Just in time for Facebook’s fifth birthday, the record-breaking waste of time may have reached critical mass this week. Elsewhere this week…

Video: Melinda Gates Highlight Reel, Part Two

John Paczkowski in D6 on May 29, 2008 at 10:11 am PT

Here are a few video highlights from the second half of the D6 interview of Melinda Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted by conference co-host Walt Mossberg.

Video: Melinda Gates Highlight Reel, Part One

John Paczkowski in D6 on May 29, 2008 at 10:10 am PT

Here are a few video highlights from the first half of the D6 interview of Melinda Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted by conference co-host Walt Mossberg.

All Lives Are Equal: Melinda Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

John Paczkowski in D6 on May 29, 2008 at 9:20 am PT

Before she ever dated Bill Gates, let alone married him, Melinda French was a damned good product manager at Microsoft. She brought to market Microsoft Publisher, which popularized the step-by-step wizards that have since spread through software everywhere. And she made a valiant, if failed, effort to radically simplify computers with Microsoft Bob. Now, with her husband, she heads the world’s largest charitable foundation, bringing to philanthropy a rare combination of compassion and the business skills she honed at Microsoft.