6 posts and columns on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Sorry, Folks, Bill Gates Is Not Coming Back to Microsoft

in News on December 8, 2011 at 1:05 pm PT

Fortune suggests Gates is mulling a comeback, but a source close to the billionaire says that just isn’t the case.
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Tech Leaders Make Forbes’ Most Powerful People List

in Enterprise on November 5, 2011 at 11:21 am PT

Forbes has compiled a list of the 70 most powerful individuals, and along with some of the world’s leading politicians and religious leaders, tech leaders made a strong showing.
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Gates Foundation Offers $20 Million in Education Tech Grants

in News on October 11, 2010 at 12:05 pm PT

Bill Gates may not be the Superman everyone’s waiting for, but he regularly uses what powers he has in the service of education. In the latest episode, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today it will put up as much as $20 million in funding for projects responding to the first in a series of Next Generation Learning Challenges. This set of grants will focus on supporting new technology that leverages online learning and interactivity to improve college readiness and graduation rates in the U.S. New sets of challenges will be issued every 6-12 months.

Education Documentary Featuring Bill Gates Gets First Distribution Deal at Sundance

in News on January 25, 2010 at 1:03 am PT

Bill Gates was at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend–not just to sample some of the fare at the well-known independent film festival, held annually in Park City, Utah, but also to appear at the screening of a documentary about the crisis in public education in which he appears and that scored the first distribution deal at the event. The worldwide rights for “Waiting for Superman,” directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Participant Media, were sold to Paramount Vantage, a unit of the Viacom movie studio.

Bill Gates, Blogger

in Media on July 24, 2009 at 6:23 am PT

Now that Bill Gates isn’t running Microsoft day to day, he is primarily focused on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is tackling big hairy problems like malaria. But apparently he still has enough time to moonlight as a free-lancer for Gizmodo.
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Video: Bill Gates, the TED Conference and a Box Full of Mosquitoes

in Media on February 6, 2009 at 1:57 pm PT

What does it look like when one of the world’s richest men unleashes a box full of mosquitoes at a high-end conference? That’s what Bill Gates did at the TED confab earlier this week in a much-discussed stunt. And now you can see for yourself.