Tag: Bill Gates

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 20:50 UTC

  Italian pharmaceuticals to be produced in Chile with Bill Gates grant

  

  The Bill Gates Foundation has allocated a grant to Italian company ReiThera Srl to produce Chile vaccines against COVID-19, it was announced.

• Tuesday, October 19th 2021 - 18:38 UTC

  UK signs agreement with Bill Gates to further develop environment-friendly technologies

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and world-leading entrepreneur Bill Gates Tuesday announced a Clean Energy Partnership worth about 400 million pounds sterling (more than US $ 550 million), according to a 10 Downing St. statement.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:54 UTC

  Melinda Gates describes Trump's de-funding of WHO dangerous and nonsensical

  

  Pulling funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) is a dangerous and nonsensical move when the world is facing the health crisis brought by the COVID-19 disease pandemic, Melinda Gates said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, March 6th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are the world's wealthiest persons

  

  Jeff Bezos remains the world's richest person, ahead of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, according to the latest Forbes list of the ultra wealthy, while far behind President Donald Trump jumped 51 spots in the ranking.

• Wednesday, November 7th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  Bill Gates in China presents his latest revolution: futuristic toilets

  

  U.S. billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates unveiled on Tuesday in Beijing a futuristic toilet that doesn’t need water or sewers and uses chemicals to turn human waste into fertilizer. The Microsoft Corp co-founder, who a day earlier was one of the high profile guests at a major trade event in Shanghai, also lauded the globalized and free trade systems that made the toilet technology possible.

• Monday, November 5th 2018 - 18:06 UTC

  Bill Gates foresees taxes on robots to keep people at their jobs

  

  Microsoft founder Bill Gates foresees that a special tax on robots will be introduced in the near future to help people keep their jobs, according to an interview published Monday in the Japanese Nikkei newspaper.

• Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 06:52 UTC

  Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft has died aged 65

  

  Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, has died aged 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He had revealed the disease's return only two weeks ago, after previously being treated for it in 2009. Allen had said he and his doctors were “optimistic” about treatment.

• Wednesday, August 16th 2017 - 15:51 UTC

  Bill and Melinda Gates donate US$ 4.6bn to charity; since 1994 they have given US$ 35bn

  

  Bill Gates has given away US$4.6bn to charity in his largest donation since 2000. He remains the world's richest person, despite giving away 64 million shares in Microsoft. The shares are equivalent to 5% of his total fortune, currently estimated to be US$ 89.9bn.

• Tuesday, February 4th 2014 - 21:39 UTC

  Microsoft names Satya Nadella as new CEO; Gates becomes technology advisor

  

  Microsoft Corp named company veteran Satya Nadella as its next chief executive officer, ending a longer-than-expected search for a new leader after Steve Ballmer announced his intention to retire in August.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 00:29 UTC

  Mexico’s Slim, world richest billionaire; Spanish fashion chain owner leaps to third place

  

  Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has topped Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest billionaires for a fourth year. The magazine estimates that Mr Slim, whose business interests range from telecommunications to construction, is worth 73bn dollars.