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A plea for poop: With jar of feces by his side, Bill Gates urges safe disposal of human waste
Placing a jar of feces on a pedestal next to him, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates made a plea Tuesday for the safe disposal of human waste as he kicked off a "Reinvented Toilet" Expo in China. "You might guess what's in this beaker — and ...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies of cancer at 65: family
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, the man who persuaded school-friend Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard to start what became the world's biggest software company, died on Monday at the age of 65, his family said. Allen left Microsoft in 1983, before the company ...
As Amazon slashes prices, boss Jeff Bezos sees jump in wealth over $150 billion
As Amazon marked its "Prime Day" with price cuts across a range of products, founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos saw his net worth hit new peaks, increasing his lead over fellow billionaires. Bezos's net worth topped $150 billion on Monday, according to the Bloomberg ...
Bill Gates mocks Trump for not knowing difference between HIV and HPV
Bill Gates is not a huge fan of Donald Trump, and at a recent event hosted by his foundation, he made that clear as he revealed details about his interactions with the U.S. president. The billionaire Microsoft founder drew laughter from the crowd when he ...
Jeff Bezos tops Forbes world's rich list with $120 billion as Trump wealth slides
Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is now the world's richest person, having snatched the top spot from Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who slips to second place, according to Forbes magazine's annual billionaires list published Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump's ranking on the list fell to 766th ...
Cybershopping sends Amazon soaring and net worth of founder Jeff Bezos atop $100 billion
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was a $100 billion man on Monday as the online retail colossus raked in cash from the holiday weekend's cybershopping spree. Forbes magazine's real-time ranking of the richest people had Bezos on top, with a personal net worth of $100.3 billion. Microsoft ...
The gap between the superrich and the poorest half of the global population is starker than previously thought, with just eight men, from Bill Gates to Michael Bloomberg, owning as much wealth as 3.6 billion people, according to an analysis by Oxfam released Monday. Presenting ...
Gates, fellow billionaires look to plow $2 billion into clean energy initiatives
Bill Gates, the world's richest man, led a group of philanthropists in vowing to plow $2 billion into clean energy through personal investments and a new fund to be set up next year. Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp., will be joined by 26 private investors ...
40,000 converge on Omaha for Warren Buffett's Berkshire 'Woodstock for Capitalists' gala
Warren Buffett puts on a good show. Especially when he is the show. That show grew bigger as more than 40,000 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders poured into Omaha this weekend to celebrate his 50th anniversary running the company, at what the world's third-richest person calls Woodstock ...
The world's richest person got even richer this year. And a basketball superstar-turned-owner made the list for the first time. Forbes said Monday that Bill Gates's net worth rose to $79.2 billion in 2015 from $76 billion last year. That put him at the top ...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is once again top of the list of the world's richest people. Forbes magazine announced its ranking of the world's billionaires Monday. Gates, who led the list for 15 of the past 20 years, won the spot back from Mexican telecom mogul ...
Meet the emerging world's vaccine pioneers
More must be done to target the 22 million children, mainly in the poorest countries, who do not have access to lifesaving vaccines that protect against diseases such as measles, pneumonia and rotavirus, writes Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates.
