Entries for July 13th, 2008

Q&A with Bill Gates: Microsoft’s pushing its frontiers

Eight months from quitting his day job to focus on philanthropy, Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates remains enthusiastically engaged in promoting the software giant’s many new business initiatives. Gates is doing all he can to help Microsoft secure a foothold in digital entertainment, mobile devices and new Internet services, such as IP telephony and IPTV. [...]

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Bill Gates enteres bridge chanpionship

July 22 (UPI) — Having conquered the global computer industry, multi-billionaire Bill Gates has entered the North American Bridge Championships in Nashville, Tenn.
The Microsoft founder was on hand this weekend for the championship bridge event along with his partner, former world champion Sharon Osberg, attempting to mimic the success he had with computers, The (Nashville) [...]

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Gates loses richest ranking to Mexican tycoon

A Mexican telecoms tycoon has toppled Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, as the world’s richest man after amassing a $67.8 billion (£33.6 billion) fortune.
Sentido Común, a Mexican financial website, has calculated that Carlos Slim Helú, a 67-year-old turnaround specialist, is worth $8.6 billion more than Mr Gates.
The rocketing share price of América Móvil, one of [...]

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Harvard dropout billionaire Gates finally gets his degree

New York, June 8 (DPA) Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates finally got his Harvard degree, more than 30 years after dropping out of the prestigious university to enter the software business and become the richest man in the world.
‘We recognize the most illustrious member of the Harvard College class of 1977 never to have graduated from [...]

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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs on one stage talking! wath the video

And with that, they were off: Reminiscing about the glory days of early computer programming, 16K operating systems, and storing data on tape drives — all the while finishing each other’s sentences
you can watch excerpts of the video here:
 http://blogs.wsj.com/dnotebook/2007/05/30/gates-jobs-on-stage/
or read the transcript of it here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118063909956120356.html
 

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