Tag: Bill Gates

• 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.

• Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 10:56 UTC

  Bill Gates finances research project to improve corn yields

  

  Billionaire computer magnate Bill Gates is to fund a €8m research project into whether cereal crops can be genetically engineered with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

• Thursday, March 8th 2012 - 06:10 UTC

  Mexico’s tycoon Slim world’s richest man for a third consecutive year

  

  Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, who on Wednesday topped the Forbes rich list for a third consecutive year with a fortune of 69 billion dollars, invests widely as he seeks to expand his massive telecoms empire.

• Sunday, January 30th 2011 - 21:44 UTC

  Bill Gates Donates U$120 Million To Fight Polio

  

  Last year at the World Economic Forum, Bill and Melinda Gates called for the next ten years to be the decade of vaccines. This week as talks reconvene in Davos, Switzerland, Gates in partnership with the United Kingdom, has donated an additional $120 million dollars to fight polio in particular. This news comes in light of the Global Health Fund fraud accusations that Gates has $150 million invested in.