PETER LAZENBY is fascinated by a book of cartoons that shows how newspaper cartoonists were employed to, on the one hand, denigrade and, on the other, to defend the miners’ strike of 1984-85 ...

Bill Gates says that if he were young again, he'd be afraid of more than just the atom bomb. "There's, you know, about four or five things that are very scary, and the only one that I really ...

Bill Gates said he grew up worrying about nuclear war, but future generations will have to be concerned about that as well as bioterrorism and climate change—to name a few. Bill Gates has laid ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation trust holds a highly concentrated portfolio with just a handful of great stocks. The investments are heavily influenced by Gates and long-time trustee Warren ...

Bill Gates with a printout of the Altair BASIC source code from 1975, one of Microsoft’s earliest software artifacts. Click to enlarge. (Gates Notes / Ian Allen) [Editor’s Note: Microsoft ...

It's one for the watch list for now, and it looks like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust has already made easy money on the stock. Lee Samaha has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

Bill Gates told Patrick Collison that younger generations should worry about four things. They are the climate crisis, unchecked AI, nuclear war, and the spread of disease. Gates said that despite his ...

Mr Gates retained the reins of Microsoft CEO until stepping down in 2000. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently admitted that he regretted quitting Harvard University to run the software ...

Not everyone agrees with Huang's view, though. Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft (MSFT 0.08%) co-founder Bill Gates thinks quantum computing could be ready for prime time within three to ...

Bill Gates could have been the world’s first trillionaire if he had never sold any shares of his Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock. He owned 45% of the company when it went public in 1986 ...

Before he left Harvard University to co-found Microsoft, Bill ... Gates had learned to write code on back in Seattle. The company rolled out the red carpet for the young Gates, flying him to ...