Could pee-power be the next energy source? Bill Gates backs scientists using urine to charge phones August 14, 2014 When explorers were filling in the 'here be dragons' gaps on maps and discovering weird and wonderful things like the potato, drinking urine was often resorted to as a means of survival. Now the BioEnergy team at Bristol Robotics Laboratory – a collaboration between the University of Bristol and the University of the West [...]
Bill Gates sells down stake in outsourcer G4S May 28, 2014 MICROSOFT co-founder Bill Gates has sold off part of his stake in G4S, the scandal-struck outsourcing firm said yesterday. Multi-billionaire Gates owned the shares through his companies Cascade Investment and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. It is thought that he sold a small part of his stake, bringing his holding down to just [...]
Bill Gates’ firm Corbis buys UK sports marketer May 19, 2014 CORBIS Entertainment, owned by billionaire Bill Gates, today announced it has bought City-based sports marketing firm WSM Communications, in a deal set to create a sports and entertainment marketing group spread across both sides of the Atlantic. Corbis Entertainment is a division of Corbis, a digital content and entertainment rights company founded by Gates in [...]
The Long View: Bill Gates is gone and the dot-com era is over: It’s only the end of the beginning February 6, 2014 AS FACEBOOK turns ten, and with Bill Gates stepping down as Microsoft chairman, it feels like something is drawing to an end. But if so, it is only the end of the technological revolution’s beginning. It is extraordinary to look back now and think how visionary both Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg were: Gates saw [...]
Gates pleased with search for new CEO November 19, 2013 MICROSOFT chairman Bill Gates said yesterday he was pleased with the software giant’s progress in finding a new chief executive and that the search committee had spoken to a number of candidates, but did not give a date by which he expected a new leader to replace the retiring Steve Ballmer. Speaking at Microsoft’s annual [...]
Spain’s FCC soars after Bill Gates buys stake October 22, 2013 SHARES in Spanish builder FCC surged 13 per cent to an 18-month high yesterday after the company said late on Monday that Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, had become its second largest shareholder. The debt-laden construction company said Gates had bought six per cent of the firm for €113.5m.
Bill Gates tops Forbes rich list with $72bn pile September 16, 2013 MICROSOFT founder Bill Gates has topped the Forbes list of America’s richest 400 for the 20th time, with a cash pile of $72bn (£45.3bn). With his wealth up $6bn from last year, Gates has also reclaimed the title of world’s richest person, having passed Mexico’s Carlos Slim in May. Berkshire Hathaway guru Warren Buffett proved [...]
How to create a new Microsoft and dominate the marketplace July 1, 2008 Bill Gates left Microsoft last week after 33 years dominating the age of PC computing. He got a couple of things right. First of all, when a contemporary, said there would only ever be a couple of computers in the world, Gates saw that in fact it would be a high-volume, low-margin business. Secondly, he [...]