Gates Foundation News
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Amazon Prime Air, Sushi-Delivery and More Ways Drones Might Be UsedDrones are Not Just for War. Soon They Might be Dropping Off Your Pizza.
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Broadband in Schools Gets Boost From Tech Gurus
… broadband in every school is getting a boost from the philanthropy of two technology gurus — Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates . Zuckerberg's Startup: Education and Gates ' foundation have contributed a combined $9 million to the nonprofit …
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Broadband in Schools Gets Boost From Tech Gurus
… broadband in every school is getting a boost from the philanthropy of two technology gurus — Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates . Zuckerberg's Startup: Education and Gates ' foundation have contributed a combined $9 million to the nonprofit …
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Broadband in Schools Gets Boost From Tech Gurus
… broadband in every school is getting a boost from the philanthropy of two technology gurus — Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates . Zuckerberg's Startup: Education and Gates ' foundation have contributed a combined $9 million to the nonprofit …
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Undergrads Return to Crumbling Myanmar University
… Yangon University is getting international help to remake itself. Johns Hopkins, Cornell and Oxford universities and the Gates Foundation are among the groups that have provided assistance or expressed interest in doing so. Charles Wiener, a professor at …
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Gates Announces 'Next Generation Condom' Challenge Finalists… key components in condoms of the future. Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced 11 finalists in his "next generation condom ..... which he launched in March through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 's Grand Challenges in Global Health. The finalists each …
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The Wealthiest People in Each State Are 19 Percent Richer Than Last Year… by Microsoft founder Bill Gates in Washington state ..... Richest Americans Led by Bill Gates , According to Forbes ..... the 50 states: 1. Bill Gates : $70.8 billion Microsoft ..... of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2. Warren Buffett …
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Major Microsoft Investors Want Bill Gates Out as Chairman… Major Microsoft shareholders are calling for founder Bill Gates to step down as the company's chairman. Three investors ..... 2008 to work full-time with his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . Gates is Microsoft's largest individual shareholder …
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'House of Horrors' Abortion Doctor Defends His 'War Against Poverty'… reading the Bible, perfecting his Spanish, exercising, and has been contacting charities, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative in attempts to be heard on issues like prison and justice reform. "He believes that …
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Google Tests Internet-Filled Balloon in California As Bill Gates Criticizes the Project… tests is a new critic of the ambitious project: Bill Gates . "The purpose of these flights is to allow ..... the $300K Test-Tube Burger Gates runs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , which is dedicated to improving education and …
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Product Promises New Age of Mosquito Prevention
… California at Riverside paired up to create this unique technology with help from benefactors such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The patch is designed to be durable and affordable everywhere and it is certainly …
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Urine-Powered Cellphone Is No Pee-Pee Joke… this isn't just something for the science journals and books. The project is in part funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , with the goal that the research and technology can have real-world applications, especially in the developing world …
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President Obama's 'Smarter Government' Plan… part of a team OMB that presided over three years of budget surpluses in the 1990s. After a Philanthropic work of the gates foundation and Wal-Mart foundation she's come back to help us move this effort for. She's not only one. We've also welcomed …
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Bill Gates : Richest Man and Also one of the Most GenerousLast week, Bill Gates , the co-founder of ..... with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . Thus far, 105 millionaires ..... director of its Project on Philanthropy and Civil Society, told ..... and personal style of philanthropy is characteristic of Slim ..... the group Hispanics in Philanthropy . For centuries, the ..... leading philanthropists like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are …
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Bill Gates Regains Title of World's Richest Person
Image credit: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images Bill Gates has regained his title as richest man in the world after ..... of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , hit a five-year high on Thursday at $72.7 billion …
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U.S. Worst Place in Industrialized World for Babies… has access to healthcare. It is not an easy thing to solve. But as Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , wrote in the report's foreword, "Saving newborn lives will prevent incalculable suffering."
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Bill Clinton Says Hillary 'Hasn't Mentioned' 2016 Run to Him
… titans like President Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates share the same stage, the subject inevitably turns to the ..... is also the co-chair and trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , has advocated for an immigration system that attracts …
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Bill Gates Offers Grant for 'Next Generation Condom'(Image Credit: Grott, Vegard/AFP/Getty Images) Bill Gates ' latest project gives a whole new meaning to the old Microsoft ..... the "next generation condom" through The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 's Grand Challenges in Global Health. The estimated 80 …
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The New Normal (The Note)
… Foundation, the retailer's charity division, and previously ran the global development wing of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . http://abcn.ws/Z8GJc5 WHERE IN THE WORLD IS JOE BIDEN? Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks at AIPAC's …
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New Cabinet Nominees to Tackle Budget, Climate Change… under Jack As deputy director norm being part of a team that presided over three budget surpluses in a Later she helped the gates foundation grow into a global force for good. And then she helped the Wal-Mart foundation expand its charitable work. So Soviet …
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Obama Announces Trio Of Cabinet-Level Positions
… Burwell previously served with new Treasury Secretary Jack Lew as deputy director of OMB and later held a top position at the Gates Foundation and led the Walmart Foundation. As Obama put it, "Sylvia knows her way around a budget." She understands "our goal …
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Obama to Nominate Walmart's Sylvia Mathews Burwell as Budget Director
… Foundation, the retailer's charity division, and previously ran the global development wing of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . Burwell's appointment has not been unexpected. In her, Obama's pick clearly indicates a mesh of corporate resume …
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Richard Branson, 11 Other Foreign Billionaires, to Give Wealth to 'Pledge' Charity… 1 billion. "The approach of my wife, Susie, and I to philanthropy is very simple," his letter begins, suggesting that ..... demonstrate to the world that the Russian traditions of philanthropy are coming back."
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The 50 Most Influential Networking Tycoons… net worth individuals. For Bill Gates , the first person on the list ..... according to Wealth-X: 1. Bill Gates category: $261 billion Co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and founder of Microsoft 2 …
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The 10 Wealthiest Networking Kings and Queens
… Wealth-X: 1. Bill Gates category ..... co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and founder ..... their wealth to philanthropy . Wealth-X ..... the country, Bill Gates , donating ..... dollars to the Gates Foundation and other causes …
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Khan Academy: Learn Everything, Online… doing some unbelievable 15-minute tutorials. Reporter: Bill gates did more than look at the kahn academy videos. He helped ..... 2009, kahn finally quit his day job and partnered with the gates foundation and google to form the kahn academy. Here's how it works …
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Khan Academy: Taking Learning Out of 'One Pace Fits All' Classroom… the world have noticed, including some heavy hitters like Bill Gates . Gates did more than look at the Khan Academy videos, he ..... in 2009, Khan finally quit his job and partnered with the Gates Foundation and Google to form the Khan Academy. Here's how it works …
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Japan Tops List of Healthiest Countries… published today. The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 , a large-scale collaboration funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to assess trends in health and disease in 187 countries, has released its rankings of the top 10 countries with the highest …
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Warren Buffett's 7 Pearls of WisdomOf all the biographers competing to be Warren Buffett's Boswell, Carol Loomis, dean of writers at Fortune magazine, would seem to be the best equipped. For more than 40 years, she has been Buffett's personal friend and sometime bridge partner. For 35, she has ghost-edited his annual letter to the
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The Wealthiest Person in Each State… the companies they founded. Bill Gates , the country's wealthiest ..... compiled by Wealth-X. 1. Bill Gates : $64.5 billion Microsoft ..... co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2. Warren Buffett: $49.6 …
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Forbes Assembles Billionaires For 'Richest Room In History'… wow.'" The meeting was part of a larger Summit on Philanthropy , where 161 of the richest people in America met in June ..... The 400 list's top-10 richest this year include: Bill Gates at #1; Warren Buffett, #2; and Larry Ellison, #3 ..... richest people on the 30th anniversary Forbes 400 list: 1. Bill Gates , $66 billion 2. Warren Buffett, $46 billion 3. Larry …
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Forbes Lists Most Powerful Women… husband in 2000. Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates , came in fourth. She has been a fixture on the list. Gates co-chairs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , which gives out billions of dollars each year in grants and …
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ABC News on the Map - Aug 15
… music and dance in honor of the African nation's first gold since 1972. Seattle: Bill Gates Searches for a New Toilet The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is looking to fund an innovative toilet. One uses microwave energy to transform human …
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The Global Note: Damascus Blasts…Toughest-Ever Cigarette Rules?…"Economic Suicide" in Europe…A One-Handed Maestro
… with the government discussions. GATES FOUNDATION : REINVENTING THE TOILET The Gates Foundation wants inventors to re-think the ..... into charcoal. They are part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation competition to reinvent the toilet …