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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.

Bill Gates Joins the Oversharing Generation: He Tweets, He Pokes and Now, He Blogs!

Kara Swisher in News on January 20, 2010 at 12:00 pm PT

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates–who has been devoting most of this time to philanthropic work via the Gates Foundation–has just launched an ambitious blog and information site. He is calling it “The Gates Notes: An Inside Look at Global Matters,” but BoomTown has officially nicknamed the site–which you can see on a screen grab after the jump–All Things B(ill) or perhaps All Things G(ates) today.

The Entire D6 Interview With the Gates Foundation's Melinda Gates (4 of 4)

Kara Swisher in News on July 31, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here’s Part 4 of 4 of an interview Walt Mossberg did with the Gates Foundation’s Melinda Gates. In this video, Melinda Gates answers questions from the audience about the time frame for the foundation, models of philanthropy, how businesses can become more philanthropic, how to improve troubled schools by eliminating “facelessness,” entrepreneurs and how to get better teachers.

The Entire D6 Interview With the Gates Foundation's Melinda Gates (2 of 4)

Kara Swisher in News on July 29, 2008 at 12:34 am PT

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here’s Part 2 of 4 of an interview Walt Mossberg did with the Gates Foundation’s Melinda Gates. In this video, Melinda Gates talks about how the massive foundation focuses its efforts, its vaccine programs, her and her husband’s increased involvement and the public broken high school educational system in the U.S.

The Entire D6 Interview With the Gates Foundation's Melinda Gates (1 of 4)

Kara Swisher in News on July 28, 2008 at 1:43 am PT

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here’s Part 3 of 4 of an interview Walt Mossberg did with the Gates Foundation’s Melinda Gates. In this video, Melinda Gates talks about her early days as a Microsoft product manager, how to take technology to the developing world, the politics of vaccines and how the Gates Foundation can be “catalytic” wedge.

Special D6 Tab in The Wall Street Journal

Kara Swisher in News on June 9, 2008 at 6:00 am PT

The Wall Street Journal published a special tab about our sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place live two weeks ago. The Journal editors selected about half of the interviews done there by Walt Mossberg and me, either separately or together, and edited the longer transcripts down to the parts they thought readers would like best.

Ask New D6 Speaker–Yahoo President Sue Decker–a Question!

Kara Swisher in News on May 9, 2008 at 8:48 am PT

Earlier this week, BoomTown posted our speaker list for the sixth edition of D: All Things Digital, which will take place in a few weeks–May 27 to 29, to be exact–in Carlsbad, Calif. Just recently, we added Jerry Yang, CEO and co-founder of Yahoo, and now he is being joined onstage at the conference by Yahoo President Sue Decker (pictured here in a lovely Wall Street Journal dot-drawing).