Showing posts with label gates. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Friday, January 27, 2012

Bill Gates Donates $750 Million to Global Fund

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The donation was made as a promissory note intended to tide the fund over regular cash shortages.

Mr. Gates, who made the announcement at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said tough economic times were “no excuse for cutting aid to the world’s poorest,” and called the fund one of the “most effective” entities to which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donates.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The Microsoft Courier Was The Wrong Product At The Wrong Time, And Bill Gates Was Right To Kill It

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The real mystery about Microsoft's "Courier" project to build a two-screen tablet for content creators isn't why it was killed.

It's why it was ever allowed to get so far in the first place.

CNET's Jay Greene dug up the whole story of Courier from a series of interviews with Microsoft execs and employees, both current and former.

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