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  • Bill and Melinda Gates to annihilate malaria worldwide

    Bill and Melinda Gates took the risky step of seeking to eradicate malaria worldwide instead of just keeping it under control. A goal of anything short of eradication would be unethical and a bad business decision, despite unsuccessful efforts to stamp...

  • Gates Foundation offers grants to annihilate tuberculosis

    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to invest $280 million (201.9 million EUR) in the program fighting against tuberculosis, a disease that has been mostly eliminated in the United States but still kills nearly 2 million people in the world each year...

  • Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates visits Peru

    Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates visited the ancient Incan capital of Cuzco in Peru and is expected to attend a reenactment of the ancient Festival of the Sun. Gates explored the lost Incan city of Machu Picchu Saturday and on Sunday he was to attend...

  • Bill Gates, Steve Jobs make rare joint appearance at technology conference

    Legendary technology rivals Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made a rare joint appearance and wasted no time making nice. "Bill built the first software company in the industry," said Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc. "Bill focused on software...

  • Bill Gates: next technology level comes from Asia

    Bill Gates last week held a conference in Asia, and from that moment he started to spread rumors that Asia will increasingly become a source of technological innovation. The Microsoft chairman said that the quality of the work being done at Microsoft...

  • Microsoft aims to have 2 bln users by 2015

    Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced a new purpose of doubling the number of computer users to 2 billion by 2015. This aim will support the Microsoft promise by cutting its software prices to governments in developing countries that provide free computers...

  • Bill Gates preparing for a space trip

    Couple days ago somebody spread a rumor that Bill Gates is preparing for a space trip. Wired has blogged about this, saying that Russian Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhi says that his fellow passenger on the current voyage to the International Space Station...

  • Bill Gates to graduate Harvard

    The founder of Microsoft and the richest man in the world, will graduate after 32 years he abandoned the Harvard University. During his junior year, Gates dropped out of the university to work full-time on Microsoft, a company he and his childhood...

  • Bill Gates limits computer time for kids

    The Microsoft founder Bill Gates, said his 10-year-old daughter, his oldest child, was not a hard-core Internet and computer user until this year, when she started at a school where the students use tablet computers for almost everything, reports Reuters...

  • Gates- in London to promote Vista to Europe

    Moldova.ORG -- Bill Gates presented the consumer release of the new Vista operating system, yestarday in a small auditorium at the British Library in London.Gates will be in Europe for four days, and his visit includes stops in Scotland, Hungary and France...

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