William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955){{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}} is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.
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Elon Musk eclipses Bill Gates to become the world's second richest person
Elon Musk is now worth more than $128 billion, making him the second richest person in the world behind Amazon bald-king ...
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Windows XP source code leaks online in the most unusual of places (it's 4chan)
Microsoft probably won't be happy about that. It seems the source code for Windows XP has leaked online — on notorious ...
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Musk, Thiel, and Gates: the 3 tech billionaires shaping our world
In the 20th century, politicians’ views of human nature shaped societies. But now, creators of new technologies increasingly ...
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Gates Foundation sold $1B worth of Berkshire stock last quarter — it's still up $500M
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation made just one stock market play last quarter: selling off $1 billion worth of shares ...
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Gates commits $150M to make $3 COVID-19 vaccines for vulnerable nations
Bill Gates is giving millions to ensure low- and middle- income countries can secure COVID-19 vaccines for under $3 per dose. ...
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UK first to source coronavirus vaccines from biotech firms backed by Bill Gates
The UK is the first world government to buy potential vaccines jointly made by the Bill Gates-backed Pfizer and Germany's ...
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Bill Gates commits $750M to help Oxford vaccinate the world against COVID-19
Gates' millions will support the delivery of 300 million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine, confusingly dubbed AZD1222. ...
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A look at the $17 billion stock portfolio of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made big Wall Street bets on US tech — pouring hundreds of millions of dollars ...
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Bezos and Zuckerberg worth $60B more in two months, thanks to COVID-19
It's true. Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Ballmer — the trio of billionaires from Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft — are balling ...
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What Elon Musk can learn from Bill Gates about handling a pandemic
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge ...
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Send in the clowns
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...
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Bill Gates to fund 7 coronavirus vaccines for quicker results, likely 'wasting' billions
'Even though we’ll end up picking at most two of them, we’re going to fund factories for all seven [...]," said Microsoft's ...
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Bill Gates: Coronavirus testing in the US is unorganized
Last night, Microsoft's co-founder and the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, held an AMA ...
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Bill Gates steps down from the Microsoft board of directors
After 45 years with the company, Bill Gates is taking his most backseat role yet. He's stepping down from the board to focus ...
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Tesla Cybertruck pre-orders have purportedly blown past the 500,000 mark
Unofficial numbers suggest Cybertruck pre-orders have blown past the 500,000 mark — but Bill Gates is buying a Porsche ...
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Buffett dumps $800M worth of Apple stock, invests in biotech and groceries
Berkshire Hathaway still owns more than 5% of Apple, despite unloading almost a billion dollars worth of stock in the last ...
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Apple, Facebook, and Warren Buffett: Here's the top 25 stocks for millennials
The average millennial investor is buying up tech stocks, but Tesla surprisingly isn't the most popular stock among thirty-somethings. ...
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Bill Gates owns a lot more Apple stock than you might think
How many dollars worth of Apple stock does he actually control through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust’s stake ...
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Bill v Bowie: How (not) to sell a tech idea
The year is 1995. Bill Gates explains to a skeptic David Letterman on his late-night show why the Internet is “the new ...
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NotJordanPeterson lets you generate uncannily realistic Jordan Peterson sound bites
NotJordanPeterson is a mind-boggling voice AI that lets you say anything you'd like in the voice of Canadian psychologist ...
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India addresses cryptocurrency scam wave with new police training course
High-ranking police officers in India will receive cryptocurrency training to help with investigations involving digital ...
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Indian scammers stole $2M in cryptocurrency using inspirational Bill Gates quotes
In spite of repeated warnings by the country's central bank, people in India continue to fall for cryptocurrency scams.
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Hackers target major UK supermarket's Twitter with phoney Bill Gates Bitcoin scam
Hackers took control of British multinational retailer Tesco’s Twitter account yesterday, urging followers to send Bitcoin ...
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Microsoft seems very proud of its smart contract auditing tools for blockchain
Microsoft is very proud of its Azure Blockchain-powered smart contract auditing tools for Ethereum which supposedly make ...
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Australian celebs targeted in long-running Bitcoin scam on Facebook
Bitcoin fraudsters are still using celebrities to promote their scams on Facebook and dupe investors out of money.
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Bill Gates and the EU announce a €100M investment fund to combat climate change
Bill Gates has signed an agreement with the EU, on behalf of his billionaire investment coaltion, to launch a joint €100M ...
