Like almost everyone who uses email, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so irritating. I believe that computers are the most incredible tool we can use to feed our curiosity and inve...
In 2000, the couple combined two family foundations and contributed close to $16 billion to form the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Its initial focuses were education, world health, and communities in the Pacific Northwest. Bill’s father, William H. Gates Sr., was one of the first co-...
Educators from the US and beyond: please share your teaching stories with Mr. Bill Gates. How have the policies of the Gates Foundation influenced your classroom, your students, your teaching, your schools, and your communities?
Since then, the Gates Foundation has spent $1.5 billion on grants focused on agriculture in Africa, according to Candid, a nonprofit that researches philanthropic giving. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is by some measures the largest private foundation in the world and is best known for ...
At the time of his resignations from both the Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway boards in March of 2020, Gates said he wanted to devote more time to his work through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In the letter posted on LinkedIn, Gates, 64, wrote that he wanted “to dedicate mo...
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill is fundamentally shifting his focus from achieving his dream of "a PC in every home" to helping realize the vision of "people without disabilities ineverycountry/region". He talks about how each one of us can help make this dream come true by do...
Reported by Area 1 Security, an email phishing campaign has been discovered in which the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is being impersonated with messages demanding Bitcoin being sent out. The messages closely resemble that of the Twitter hack with an attractive quick rich scheme offer. ...
Bill Gates this morning announced a book, "Source Code," due out in February 2025, focusing on his early years before Microsoft.
In addition to extending Microsoft's success, Gates also turned his attention to philanthropy, including the establishment of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates and his wife endowed the foundation with $24 billion to support philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learni...
Those financial benefits convinced many, including the Gates Foundation, that mobile money was a powerful tool in the fight against global poverty. "People being able to participate on their phone, no matter where they live, even if they’re in a remote rural village in Tanzania or Kenya, th...