Bill Gates

In Fight To End Malaria, Bill Gates Backs Gene Technologies

World News | Reuters | Thursday April 19, 2018

Gene-editing technologies that alter mosquitoes' DNA could prove critical in the fight against malaria, Bill Gates said on Wednesday, and ethical concerns should not block progress in such gene-modifying research.

Forbes Top 10 Billionaires List For 2018 Is Out. A Look At The World's Richest

World News | Edited by Richa Taneja | Wednesday March 7, 2018

The Forbes Top 10 Billionaires list list features the likes of Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, famed investor Warren Buffet, Facebook CEO Mark Zukerberg among others.

Jeff Bezos Tops Forbes' List of World's Richest People

Agence France-Presse | Wednesday March 7, 2018

Bill Gates, Microsoft's co-founder and an occasional bridge partner of Buffett's, ranks second on the Forbes list with wealth of $90 billion.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos Tops Forbes World's Rich List As Trump's Wealth Drops

World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday March 6, 2018

Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is now the world's richest person, having snatched the top spot from Microsoft founder Bill Gates who slips to second place, according to Forbes magazine's annual billionaires list published Tuesday

No, Bill Gates Won't Give You Cash To Forward Emails. Reddit AMA Highlights

Offbeat | NDTV Offbeat Desk | Thursday March 1, 2018

On Tuesday, Microsoft co-founder and one of the world's richest men Bill Gates hosted his sixth Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything). The billionaire tech mogul responded to all kinds of questions on his goals, achievements, hobbies and whether he ever just gets up to make himself a peanut butter sandwich (spoiler alert: he's not a sandwich man but does ma...

Bill Gates Says Super Wealthy Like Him Should Pay Significantly Higher Taxes

Business | Indo-Asian News Service | Monday February 19, 2018

Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates has said that he should pay more in taxes and that the government should require other super-wealthy people like him to contribute "significantly higher" amounts.

What The Gates Said About Donald Trump And His Tweets

World News | Reuters | Tuesday February 13, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump should treat people - especially women - with more respect, and continue investments in poorer countries for the sake of global security, the world's leading philanthropic couple Bill and Melinda Gates said on Tuesday.

If Jeff Bezos, Mukesh Ambani, Jack Ma Funded Their Governments

World News | Marine Strauss, Wei Lu, Bloomberg | Tuesday February 13, 2018

How many days could the government keep running if the richest person of each country was paying for it? We created the 2018 Robin Hood Index to delve into the subject. We took 49 countries with various political regimes and expenditure types and the richest individuals of each of these nations. We then compared their net worth as of end-December 2...

IBM Sues Former HR Boss Hired By Microsoft

World News | Reuters | Tuesday February 13, 2018

International Business Machines Corp sued its former executive Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, who was named Microsoft Corp's new chief diversity officer over the weekend.

Bill Gates Played Secret Santa. Sent These Superb Gifts To Lucky Redditor

Offbeat | NDTV Offbeat Desk | Monday December 25, 2017

A Redditor participating in Reddit's Secret Santa game was in for a huge shock when her gifts finally arrived. She had somehow hit Secret Santa jackpot because hers just happened to be Bill Gates.

On Bill Gates' Best Of 2017 List, Akshay Kumar's Toilet: Ek Prem Katha

Entertainment | Wednesday December 20, 2017

Akshay Kumar's film Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is on Bill Gates' list of six positive things that happened in 2017

Bill Gates Meets Yogi Adityanath, Discusses UP's Medical Issues

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday November 18, 2017

Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Friday met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and discussed with him ways to intensify the immunisation programme against Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES).

Rajnath Singh Meets Bill Gates, Asks Help In Building 'Model Villages'

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday November 17, 2017

Microsoft founder Bill Gates today met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and discussed with him various welfare initiatives of the American philanthropies in India.

Bill Gates Makes $100 Million Personal Investment To Fight Alzheimer's

World News | Reuters | Tuesday November 14, 2017

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.

Amazon's Bezos May Be World's Richest But He's Far From Most Generous

World News | Karen Weise, Dina Bass, Bloomberg | Wednesday November 1, 2017

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos may have surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to be the richest person in the world, but there's one title he isn't likely to claim: world's most generous.