Bill Gates tops Forbes' list of billionaires
New York (NY) - Bill Gates leads Forbes' list of the world's richest people for the 13th time in a row. The Microsoft co-founder's wealth is estimated at $56 billion.
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11.3.2007 Bill Gates' to-do list
NEW YORK--It's still a year before Bill Gates shifts from a full-time Microsoft worker to a part-timer. Which is good, because there's plenty he still wants to achieve.
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4.2.2007 Bill Gates Again Tops List of Richest Americans
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is the richest person in America for the 14th year in a row, followed by investor Warren Buffett, according to Forbes magazine's latest list of the wealthiest Americans.
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21.9.2007 Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell Top List of IT Influencers
Gates was named by 84% of the participants, Jobs by 73%, and Dell by 53% of CompTIA voters.
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7.11.2007 Gates still has a long to-do list
For years, the Microsoft chairman has been a fiery advocate, inside the company and out, for the notion that computers should be controlled, not just by mouse and keyboard, but also by more natural means, such as voice, touch and digital ink.
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19.10.2007 If You Were Bill Gates, What Would You Buy Next?
If Microsoft chairman Bill Gates gave you a blank check and asked you to spend it in ways that would improve Microsoft's bottom line, what would you do with it? We're not talking planes, trains and automobiles here; we're talking tech investments. We know Microsoft technical evangelist
Robert Scoble would go Web 2.0-crazy with his mad money. But what about you?
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4.2.2006 What's Next for Bill Gates? - Part 2
In Part 2 of Time's interview, the Microsoft chief talks about the battle against Google, Origami and other new products from the Microsoft machine
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12.3.2006 Bill Gates: How I work
Not much of a paper chase for Microsoft's chairman, who uses a range of digital tools to do business.
Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect, Microsoft, U.S.A.
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5.4.2006 Who will replace Bill Gates?
Since joining Microsoft I've heard Bills name in conversations with me so many times now that It's quite disturbing to be honest. In that, a lot of the time I get the "yeah well tell your buddy Bill..." or "..When you next See Gates..." piecemeal conversations.
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12.3.2007 Bill Gates wants to go to space
The world's richest man Bill Gates is considering a possible flight into space, a Russian cosmonaut said from International Space Station Wednesday, citing Gates' colleague, current space tourist Charles Simonyi.
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15.4.2007 Bill Gates Award
At the Company Meeting, it was announced that Dave Cutler won the new Bill Gates Award, which is meant to recognize those who have made the absolute highest contributions to Microsoft (the award will be given only in years in which a suitable candidate emerges, and Bill has promised to return to present it. It is different from the Gates Award for Global Health, which is given by his Foundation and is sometimes referred to incorrectly as the "Bill Gates Award").
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10.9.2007 The quotable Bill Gates
In the past several decades, Microsoft's departing leader has provided plenty of choice quotes for audiences to ponder.
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23.6.2008 Bill Gates Still the Richest Man
Microsoft chairman architect Bill Gates is still the wealthiest person in America with a total of $51 billion, according to Forbes' annual list. Four out the top five richest Americans represent the technology industry, with fellow Microsoft founder Paul Allen, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison trailing Warren Buffett.
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Bill Gates Turns 50
What to get for the guy who has everything, even a knighthood?
Bill Gates turns 50 today, and such a landmark age deserves a landmark party. Official details were scant with a likely understated acknowledgment that he'll be "spending time privately with friends." common -
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Bill Gates - Too much money to tax
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said today the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast.
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1.2.2006 Bill Gates, still the richest person
Microsoft's chief visionary moving further away from day-to-day corporate work. For the first time did not offer a strategy outlook at last year's financial analyst meeting. Instead, prefers to dive into innovative projects, foster collaboration among Microsoft's many divisions.
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10.3.2006 Bill Gates Spills About What's Next for Microsoft
In a two-part interview, Gates talks about the future of digital photography, search technology and more
TIME: How do you think about innovation? What are your cues? Is there a way you look at the world and derive a vision of the future? People wonder how Bill Gates comes up with the next big idea.
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11.3.2006 Bill Gates Wishes he Wasn't so Rich
The corporate leader says he doesn't like the attention of being the world's richest man.
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6.5.2006 Little-Known Facts About Well-Known Leaders - Bill Gates
Everyone knows the most recent headlines about our country’s greatest leaders. In this feature, we’d like to shed some light on the lesser-known facts about these folks in hopes of giving you a little greater insight as to what makes them tick.
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23.6.2007 Bill Gates' new project: Farming
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates announced a new direction Friday as he pledged $306 million in grants to develop farming in poor countries, leading the charge for corporate responsibility at a major meeting of business chiefs.
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26.1.2008 The secret of Bill Gates success
As Bill Gates prepares to end his full-time work at Microsoft, he tells the BBC in an interview that it wasn't just what Microsoft did, but what his rivals didn't do that let Microsoft get ahead.
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20.6.2008 Rant Collumn for Bill Gates
Jim Lynch from ExtremeTech wrote a rant collumn about Bill Gates leaving Microsoft, here are some parts.
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3.7.2008 Bill Gates puts Bedingfield in his Xbox
IN the video that accompanies her first international hit, Unwritten, the British singer-songwriter Natasha Bedingfield is trapped inside a book trying to escape from a musty library.
Unwritten's startling imagery and catchy tune so impressed Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, that he has appointed Bedingfield his first corporate "artist in residence".
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26.3.2006 WinHEC 2006: Bill Gates Keynote
The annual WinHEC conference is kicking off in Seattle this morning with a keynote address by Microsoft boss Bill Gates:
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23.5.2006 Bill Gates says U.S. education system needs work
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Monday that the U.S. higher education system is the envy of the world but primary and secondary schools are failing to adequately prepare students for college.
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14.11.2006 Bill Gates Takes a Jab at DRM
Microsoft recently held a get together for a small group of high-profile bloggers ahead of the Mix Conference.
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17.12.2006 Bill Gates 'anxious' about US tech leadership
A lack of technology skills is causing the US to fall behind in the global knowledge economy, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates warned in a testimony before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labour and Pensions.
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8.3.2007 Bill Gates Talk on Computing from 1989
Bill Gates discusses the software and computer industry, and how Microsoft has contributed. Gates also discusses his views on the future of the computing industry.
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25.3.2007 Bill Gates Headed For Space, Says Cosmonaut
Rumor revealed during live interview on Russian TV, based on a report from a former Microsoft engineer aboard the International Space Station.
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12.4.2007 Bill Gates: The next great success will come from Asia
"The next great success will come from Asia", said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in Boao, south China's Hainan Province Saturday.
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22.4.2007Gates regains Forbes rich list top spot
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has found himself back at the top of Forbes magazine's list of the richest billionaires as the worldwide economic
downturn takes its effect on the wealth of many of the world's richest people. 332 people have been wiped off the list completely after their
fortunes have fallen below the $1 billion mark, according to BBC News, leaving just 793 total places. One of those booted off the list, also
loosing the title of world's youngest billionaire, is the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg.
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12.03.2009Bill Gates Still the Richest
Man
Microsoft chairman architect
Bill Gates is still the
wealthiest person in America
with a total of $51 billion,
according to Forbes' annual
list. Four out the top five
richest Americans represent
the technology industry, with
fellow Microsoft founder Paul
Allen, Michael Dell and Larry
Ellison trailing Warren
Buffett...
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24.09.2005Gates: Great To Be An Underdog
In the wake of Microsoft's collapsed bid for Yahoo!, Bill Gates spoke with Forbes.com on Sunday afternoon in an exclusive interview to talk about
Google, the future of Microsoft and why he likes being the underdog.
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05.05.2008Gates Regains Top Spot on Forbes List as Billionaires Dwindle
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates regained the title of worlds richest person on Forbes magazines annual ranking of billionaires worldwide, as the
global recession slashed the size of the list by 30 percent...
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12.03.2009Gates Slips From 'Richest Man' Status
Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates has been supplanted as the world's richest man, according to a
revised Forbes Magazine ranking, using October 1 data. Gates
now takes second place to Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, whose wealth Forbes estimated at $58 billion.
Gates had held the top richest spot for 15 years, but his wealth slipped from $57 billion in August to $55.5 billion in October, the magazine
reported. Taking third place, at $25.4 billion, was Gates' ostensible nemesis, Larry Ellison, cofounder and CEO of Oracle Corp.
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11.10.2008Bill Gates tops U.S. wealth list 15 years in a row
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is the richest person in the United States for the 15th year in a row, but economic woes have claimed some members of
Forbes magazine ranking of the 400 wealthiest Americans.
Dropouts this year include former American International Group chief
executive Maurice Greenberg, and former eBay chief Meg Whitman, while among those on the list some 126 fortunes declined -- six times more than last
year.
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18.09.2008The Forbes 400
One billion dollars is no longer enough. The price of admission to this, the 25th anniversary edition of the Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion, up $300
million from last year. The collective net worth of the nation's mightiest plutocrats rose $290 billion to $1.54 trillion.
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Street led the charge, despite this summer's market jitters. Nearly half of the 45 new members made their fortunes in hedge funds and private equity.
Money manager John Paulson joins the list after pocketing more than $1 billion short-selling subprime credit this summer.
Leveraged buyout titans David Bonderman and James Coulter of Texas Pacific Group make their first appearance on the list, along with William
Conway, Daniel D'Aniello and David Rubenstein of the Carlyle Group. Blackstone billionaires Peter Peterson and Hamilton "Tony" James also join the
Forbes 400 for the first time.
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21.09.2007Seattle tops 'Forbes' most wired cities list
The list-happy business magazine Forbes Thursday released its annual survey of the
nation's most wired cities. Topping the list is
Seattle, the home of Amazon.com, Starbucks, and Microsoft (well, it's in a suburb).
Surprisingly, none of California's
famed tech cities are in the top 10. San Francisco dropped to No. 11 from No. 4 last year, mainly because of its lack of high-speed access options.
But take heart, San Franciscans: Forbes still says you're the most tech savvy city in the country, since you have the highest percentage of
home broadband Internet users in the country. Following right behind the "city by the bay" are San Diego and Los Angeles.
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23.01.2009Gates Foundation Assets Plummet 20%
No surprise that Bill Gates, along with everyone else, is getting hammered by the recession. But
Dealbook breaks down the numbers: The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is down 19%, and Bill's Cascade Investment is down another 18%.
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18.02.2009Did Yahoo Bid Cost Bill Gates "World's Richest" Title?
Dan Frommer: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man,
according to Forbes
magazine. The new leader: Berkshire Hathaway boss Warren Buffett, worth an estimated $62 billion. Gates fell to third place -- after Mexican
telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu -- and is now worth an estimated $58 billion.
Not that Gates cares, but did Microsoft's (MSFT)
$44.6 billion bid for Yahoo (YHOO) cost him the title?
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06.03.2008Bill Gates expands photo empire
Bill Gates has acquired a 5.2 percent stake in Eastman Kodak, according to
a regulatory filing today. The
Microsoft chairman owns the shares through his Cascade Investment LLC investment arm and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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18.02.2009How Bill Gates Uses Office and Three Monitors
Bill Gates drops a lengthy
blog post explaining how he gets things done, Microsoft style, using three monitors to watch an inbox, read or write documents,
and browse the web. Spoiler: He also digs SharePoint, LiveMeeting, and other MS apps...
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28.07.2009Inside Bill Gates' real Facebook account
Ever wondered what Bill Gates' Facebook really looks like? This week, reports have surfaced that Bill Gates stopped using Facebook because too
many people wanted to add him as a friend. Gates told an audience in New Delhi he had tried out Facebook but ended up with "10,000 people wanting to
be my friends". According to Gates he had trouble figuring out who was a real friend and who was not, "It was just way too much trouble so I gave it
up," Gates told the business forum. Over the years that Facebook has been operating there have been many parody and fake screen shots of Bill's
Facebook pages but Neowin can reveal Gates' true Facebook page today.
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26.07.2009Bill Gates Again Tops List of Richest Americans
According to Forbes magazine's 25th annual ranking of the 400 richest Americans, Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($59 billion) is the richest person
in America for the 14th year in a row, followed by investor Warren Buffett ($52 billion) - the pair's fortunes each grew by $6 billion in the
past year. Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson ($28 billion), head of Las Vegas Sands, and software tycoon Larry Ellison ($26 billion), chief
executive of Oracle, remain at spots 3 and 4, respectively. " The collective net worth of those listed on the 400 this year rose $290 billion
to $1.54 trillion ," Forbes said.
For the first time since 1989 there are no members of the Walton family, descendants of Wal-Mart
founder Sam Walton, in the top 10. The Waltons were displaced by Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who came in at 5th place with fortunes
of $18.5 billion, and brothers Charles and David Koch, who run Koch Industries and are each valued at $17 billion, earning them 9th place.
Investor Kirk Kerkorian was the biggest gainer on the list, his fortune rising by more than $9 billion in the past year to $18 billion and
moving from 26th to 7th place. Of the top 400 richest Americans, Forbes said 270 are entirely self-made, 74 inherited their wealth and 39 are women.
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22.09.2007Bill Gates introduces Bill Gates
Bill Gates gave a big speech Thursday night about eradicating disease, saving the world, and other stuff like that. But for pure entertainment value
-- and impact -- he was completely upstaged by his dad. Here's how Bill Gates Sr. introduced his son at the Rotary Club of Seattle's centennial
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06.03.2009Little-Known Facts About Well-Known Leaders - Bill Gates
Everyone knows the most recent
headlines about our country's
greatest leaders. In this
feature, we'd like to shed
some light on the lesser-known
facts about these folks in
hopes of giving you a little
greater insight as to what
makes them tick.
Bill Gates
- William
Henry Gates was born on
October 28, 1955, in Seattle,
Washington, USA.
- His
father William was a corporate
lawyer, and his mother Mary
was a schoolteacher.
- By the age of 17,
Gates had sold his first
computer program, a
time-tabling system for his
high school, for $4,200.
- Gates scored 1590 on
his SAT standardized test. The
top score for the test is
1600.
- Gates told his
university teachers he would
be a millionaire by age 30. He
became a billionaire at age
31.
- While at Harvard,
Gates co-wrote Altair BASIC,
which became Microsoft's
(then called Micro-Soft) first
product.
- He met his
wife, Melinda French, in 1987
at a Microsoft press event in
Manhattan while she was a
worker for the company. They
would go on to get married on
New Years Day in 1994.
- In 2002, Bill Gates
was considered more idolized
than Chinese Communist leader
Mao Tse-tung in a poll of
teenagers in Hong Kong and
China. The survey was
conducted by the City
University of Hong Kong.
- In 2005, Gates was
honored with the title Knight
Commander of the Order of the
British Empire by Queen
Elizabeth II of England.
- As of the March 2007
issue of Forbes magazine, Bill
Gates has been listed as
Number 1 on "Forbes' Richest
People" list for 13 years in
a row. His current net worth
is about $56 billion.
- Gates has recently
announced that he will be
reducing his involvement at
Microsoft and will be devoting
more time to his charity
work.
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24.06.2007Bill Gates not the worlds richest person anymore
According to Sentido Comun,
Carlos Slim Helu has surpassed
Bill gates as the worlds
wealthiest person. The Mexican
magazine estimates Slim to be
worth about $67.8 billion,
while Gates is estimated at
"just" $59.2 billion.
Slim, who controls
Teléfonos de Mexico (Telmex),
has been climbing up the
ladder over the past months
and was recently ranked at #2
on Forbes list of the worlds
richest people. Sentido Comun
believes that the sharp price
increase of Telmex stock -
+27% between March and June of
this year “ was the single
most important reason that
allowed 67-year old Slim to
reach the top spot.
Besides Telmex, Slim's
holdings include five
insurance companies, a retail
chain, mining companies, an
auto parts manufacturing
company, a bank and a tobacco
company. He also has an
investment history in the U.S.
where he owns CompUSA and Saks
Fifth Avenue.
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03.07.2007Bye, Bill. A fond remembrance
On this final day of Bill Gates' salaried employ at the company he founded, we recall a period of history way, way back -- an era when Gates was one
giant among many, and just as likely to survive the shakeout as any other...
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28.06.2008Bill Gates unleashes mosquito swarm on TED crowd
Every year, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged
to give the talk of their lives. Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, who retired last year to devote himself into the Bill & Melinda Foundation, was
invited to speak at TED Conference this year devoted to "Great Unveilings." Gates Foundation has been recently working on ending Malaria and has
spent millions fighting the disease. Malaria is a dreadful disease affecting only poor countries and it looks Bill Gates wanted everybody to have a
feel of it at the TED conference!
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05.02.2009Bill Gates on Project Natal and Windows
Project Natal was unveiled as a revolutionary new gesture-based controller for the Xbox 360 during this year's E3 games expo, but while you may be
looking forward to using it to control games in your living room it could also find its way into your office, according to Bill Gates. In an
interview with CNET News, the Microsoft chairman and former CEO Bill Gates revealed that the company is looking at ways of using the Project Natal
hardware with Windows PCs through the same "software libraries and applications." The ideas started in Microsoft Research, which is the "crown
jewel in terms of always feeding neat new things into Microsoft" in the eyes of Gates.
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