Philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates suggested the state of Norway should invest a portion of its massive USD800 billion wealth fund to countries in Asia and Africa.
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Bill Gates says the ideas that come from Silicon Valley's silly companies are "going to be really important"
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates thinks that innovation drives progress and doesn't mind the silly endeavors that some companies in Silicon Valley are engaged in because it is from them that important ideas emerge.
Forbes Magazine: Bill Gates regains top spot for world's wealthiest man
Bill Gates bagged the top spot once again and is the current richest man in the world based on his estimated net worth, said Forbes magazine.
Google's Eric Schmidt to donate $1M to firms that use technology to solve world problems
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said he will be putting money where his mouth is and donating $1 million to companies that will use technology to find solutions to global problems, TechCrunch reported.
Microsoft invests $15M in Foursquare, inks licensing deal for location-based data
Tech giant Microsoft invested $15 million in location-based social networking app Foursquare and inked a licensing deal to use the latter's places database in their products and services.
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Bill Gates bought a 6% stake in Spain's FCC for EUR 113.5 million. Billionaire Bill Gates had purchased a 6% stake in Spain-based construction firm Fomento de Construcciones & Contratas or FCC.
Co-founding chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer had sought for re-election in Microsoft's board of directors, said a Reuters report.
Three of the top 20 investors in computer software company Microsoft had urged its board to push the firm's founding chairman Bill Gates to step down from office.
In a interview at a Harvard fundraising campaign, Microsoft chairman and founder Bill Gates admitted that the keyboard combination of Control, Alt and Delete keys to log into a PC was a mistake and should had only been one key.
Ballmer made an impassioned plea to investors of Microsoft stock as well as took stock of his work as CEO of Microsoft.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index, Ortega recently passed Buffett as the world's richest individual.
PayPal's mistake made a resident from Pennsylvania the richest person alive for a few hours with exactly US$92,233,720,368,547,800.
Kymeta raised US$50 million new financing. Kymeta, a Redmond-based satellite antenna developer that is not even a year old, showed signs of quick growth.
Buffet gave around 17.5 million Class B shares to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Warren Buffett has contributed a record US$2 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
