Monday, March 30, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Philanthropy : Gates decided to increase donations in 2009 to $3.8 billion, up 15% from 2008
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
The Top 20 Richest People in the World, Bill Gates is first
World's Billionaires 2009, William Gates III, Net Worth: $40 billion.
• Software visionary regains title as the world's richest man despite losing $18 billion in the past 12 months.
• Stepped down from day-to-day duties at Microsoft last summer to devote his talents and riches to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Organization's assets were $30 billion in January; annual letter lauds endowment manager Michael Larson for limiting last year's losses to 20%.
• Gates decided to increase donations in 2009 to $3.8 billion, up 15% from 2008.
• Dedicated to fighting hunger in developing countries, improving education in America's high schools and developing vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS.
• Appointed Microsoft Office veteran Jeffrey Raikes chief executive of Gates Foundation in September. Gates remains Microsoft chairman. • Sells shares each quarter, redeploys proceeds via investment vehicle Cascade; more than half of fortune invested outside Microsoft.
• Stock down 45% in past 12 months.
• "Creative capitalist" wants companies to match profit making with doing good.
• Software visionary regains title as the world's richest man despite losing $18 billion in the past 12 months.
• Stepped down from day-to-day duties at Microsoft last summer to devote his talents and riches to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Organization's assets were $30 billion in January; annual letter lauds endowment manager Michael Larson for limiting last year's losses to 20%.
• Gates decided to increase donations in 2009 to $3.8 billion, up 15% from 2008.
• Dedicated to fighting hunger in developing countries, improving education in America's high schools and developing vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS.
• Appointed Microsoft Office veteran Jeffrey Raikes chief executive of Gates Foundation in September. Gates remains Microsoft chairman. • Sells shares each quarter, redeploys proceeds via investment vehicle Cascade; more than half of fortune invested outside Microsoft.
• Stock down 45% in past 12 months.
• "Creative capitalist" wants companies to match profit making with doing good.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Kid's dream
Bill Gates said: I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
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www.acehforum.biz
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Gates: If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill and Bull.
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www.iasfbo.inaf.it
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Hu jintao: Act natural, Gates. Act natural.
He's a communist. Do communist understand money?
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
The Magic "ET" Gates most empowering tool ever created
Bill Gates said, "I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
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www.sportcartoons.co.uk
Monday, March 2, 2009
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Attention, Bill Gates says, "We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior."
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
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