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William H Gates III

, 47 , self made

Source: Microsoft
Net Worth: $40.7 bil
Home State: Washington
Marital Status: married , 2 children
Harvard University, Drop Out

Microsoft founder no doubt sleeping easier after settling pesky federal antitrust suit. This year the world's richest man will even get a little extra pocket change – about $100 million – from company's first shareholder dividend. Microsoft no longer the torrid growth machine it once was, but is weathering tech storm better than most. Having kicked himself upstairs to more cerebral job of chief software architect, Gates is busy working with developers to push Microsoft beyond the desktop into devices like tablet PCs, cell phones, TVs. Maintaining secrecy on next version of Windows (dubbed Longhorn, set for release in 2005), claims it's not just an upgrade. Meanwhile tackling global health and education with $24 billion Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Funds flowing to disease prevention (polio, AIDS), vaccine development; lately buying drug stocks. Diversifies own wealth via Cascade Investments: Corbis, stakes in Republic Services, Canadian National Railway, Gabelli Asset Management.

Bill Gates

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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates speaks to talk show host Charlie Rose, not pictured, during a taping of Rose's show in Stanford, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. ...
A profile picture of Microsoft founder Bill Gates had horns drawn on to Gates's head along with a moustache. And for 10 months, a Wikipedia entry informed ...
Bill Gates is a blend of two types, C and D. Most people are a blend of two types. They can switch types depending upon the situation. ...

The new Microsoft commercial, featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates out discount shoe shopping, was unveiled Thursday night on TV. ...
The first videos starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld have appeared on YouTube, and the results are surprisingly amusing. But will they help sell copies ...
5 -- Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates topped the list of who Americans would like to take on a day-long hike according to a survey released today and ...
On which planet does this advert make any sense? (Answer that and you could be in line for a $300 million contract....) Maybe it's the first part of a ...
And you get to see Bill Gates shake his money maker-not that there's anything wrong with that. The 90-second ad (which you can find on YouTube or ...
It hired Seinfeld to help, and the first commercial featured the comedian and Bill Gates at a shoe store. The problem, it seems, is that many people just ...
It appears as if the highly-touted Microsoft advertising campaign has begun featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. The ad spot didn't even produce a ...
The advertisement is Seinfeld and recently retired Microsoft founder Bill Gates spending some time shoe shopping in a mall. I guess the idea is to play off ...
blogs have been buzzing over the past few weeks since Microsoft's announcement of their deal with Jerry Seinfeld as Windows Vista's new posterboy. ...
And seeing how the punchline was, ummm, Bill Gates adjusting his shorts, I don't think I want to get it. Check out the commercial and tell me if I'm wrong ...
Time recently wrote about Bill Gates' numerous philanthropic endeavors. I think that the Gates Foundation deserves kudos for at least two reasons: Gates' ...
It is also true, as Mr. Gapper notes, that Bill Gates saw this coming many years ago - and sounded the alarm in a famous memo to Microsoft's executives. ...
I don't know whether he will be amused or bemused to see that the first direct quote full of praise comes from none other than his old nemesis Bill Gates, ...
The misconception is that the top 5 percent are all people like billionaire Bill Gates, who after all, some say, can afford higher taxes. ...
As an Inc. 5000 honoree, SeQual Technologies is now a member of the most influential business club in America; alumni include Bill Gates of Microsoft, ...
He'll join Microsoft founder Bill Gates for a series of commercials. Jerry doesn't work cheap, he'll get a reported $10 million bucks. ...
He is writing a book about the research endeavors of Bill Gates and Paul Allen. You can reach him in care of editor@crosscut.com.
Bill Gates Foundation has just budgeted $4m to investigate the potential of rainwater harvesting in the third world. But what about the first world? ...
By Emil Protalinski | Published: September 03, 2008 - 05:27PM CT In January, Bill Gates made his last CES keynote speech, and ever since he stepped down ...
Bill Gates, in other words, was right to be paranoid. Most people spend 90% of their time in front of their computer interacting with the Internet by way of ...
() ] on the offensive; taking aim at the enemy, Bill Gates. Well, that be a little dramatic, but Google is making a major attempt to chip away at the ...
He is writing a book about the research endeavors of Bill Gates and Paul Allen. You can reach him in care of editor@crosscut.com.
A BBC insider said the show was likely to be turned into a series of one-off specials, with the successful Fiona Bruce fronted programme on Bill Gates in ...
Bill Gates once famously said that if General Motors had improved its technology at the same rate as the computer industry, we would all be driving $25 cars ...
coondoggie writes "Bill Gates and the Charles Simonyi Fund for arts and Sciences this week donated $30 million to an ambitious telescope that researchers ...
Bill Gates is a technology man and a brilliant thinker. Luckily, blessedly, he has a wife who values context and the essential role that women play: Women ...
In Olympic news, Michael Phelps became the Bill Gates of the swimming pool by monopolizing on gold medals. In politics, Sen. Barack Obama announced Sen. ...
It does all remind me of Bill Gates' book "The road ahead", released over 10 years ago now. He mentions netscape as being a competitor and how they were ...
By CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER Why isn't a Bill Gates or a Steve Jobs born in Honduras? I mean, why is it that creative people don't emerge in the Third World, ...
(Dallas Morning News, The (KRT) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) DALLAS _ Move over, Bill Gates. You've got company. The former full-time executive of Microsoft ...
New Delhi: Global superstar artist Damien Hirst, whose fanclub include the likes of Bono from U2 and Bill Gates, is now ready to market to India. ...
No longer does Bill Gates stand guard outside your cell... It's time to ditch Windows and build a linux distro around the TouchSmart UI. ...
Bill Gates once famously said that if General Motors had improved its technology at the same rate as the computer industry, we would all be driving $25 cars ...
Just last night, soon to be ex-Microsoft CSA Bill Gates and current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shared the stage and talked about the next version of ...
The Monopoly worm sent itself by email, boasting "proof" that Microsoft boss Bill Gates was guilty of abusing his monopoly position. ...
But unless you're Bill Gates, it may be difficult to put $3.7 billion dollars in perspective. So here is a little primer on what $3.7 billion is. ...

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