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Vanguard
March 31, 2018
But whatever reprieve the President got turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory because exactly two days after the MLK family endorsement, the real family of Martin Luther King Junior, comprising his biological children, denied the so called 'family' they came to give President Buhari his 'award' and issued aÃâà...
THISDAY Newspapers
March 31, 2018
But whatever reprieve the President got turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory because exactly two days after the MLK family endorsement, the real family of Martin Luther King Junior, comprising his biological children, denied the so-called 'family' that came to give President Buhari his 'award' and issued aÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 31, 2018
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has met with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-founder Bill Gates at his home in Seattle, the Saudi Press .... suspend high-level diplomatic contact with Moscow and not send any members of the royal family to the 2018 football World Cup hosted by Russia.
CNBC
March 30, 2018
What Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates was doing at 20 years old ... Today, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is one of the world's richest people, with a total net worth estimated at nearly $90 billion. But a little over four decades ... "I was officially on leave, I didn't have, like, a family to feed or anything. But, I wasÃâà...
Arab News
March 26, 2018
During his visit to the center, the founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation highlighted the medical efforts, the family care and childcare programs the center provides for the poor and the sick in the city, and praised the MWL for establishing the International Islamic Relief Organization, one of the bestÃâà...
CNET
March 26, 2018
"When I met Bill Gates, I would say he had the emotional quotient of a snail. And now you can ... The Microsoft co-founder and his wife have, of course, been associated with an enormous amount of charitable work, striving to eradicate malaria and trying to reduce inequality in the world. There's something inÃâà...
Africa.com
March 25, 2018
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is visiting Nigeria to see first-hand the progress the country is making on primary healthcare provision, polio ... Some of the major areas of investment include agriculture, maternal and child health, nutrition, family planning, and financial services for the poor.
Zimbio
March 22, 2018
During The Big Bang Theory red carpet and panel at PaleyFest, the cast and creatives from the show talked about the most exciting things that are yet to come this season. Series stars Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, and Kunal Nayyar were all in attendance, and they didn't hold back when itÃâà...
Pulse Nigeria
March 22, 2018
The Microsoft founder said over $1.6 billion has been invested in Nigeria's key areas of agriculture, primary healthcare, immunization, polio eradication programmes, nutrition, family planning amongst others through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The philanthropist urged the federal government toÃâà...
Good4Utah
March 22, 2018
I don't think Bill Gates would feel like his Eagle Scout award was somehow diminished if there were some exception made to acknowledge Logan." He said the family's ideal outcome is for the BSA to acknowledge Logan's Eagle Scout project and adjust the wording in their policies to include those withÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 13, 2018
The investment arm of Bill Gates has increased its holdings in Ecolab Inc. to 10.1 percent of the company. Cascade Investment LLC — already the largest shareholder in the St. Paul-based global provider of water, hygiene, and energy products and services — purchased 694,343 additional shares ofÃâà...
CNBC
March 13, 2018
"Clearly we need a hugely broad set of talents," Gates said during a Q&A with his wife Melinda and Lin-Manuel Miranda in New York City last month. "But if your talents take you towards science or programming or advances in biology or energy breakthroughs, those kind of deep areas are going to be theÃâà...
Business Insider Nordic
March 12, 2018
Gates called it "an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world" and his wife, Melinda, echoed the praise: "Hans Rosling tells the story of 'the secret silent miracle of human progress' as only he can," she wrote in her review. Bill and Melinda Gates were good friends of Rosling, and before he died he had one lastÃâà...
Business Insider
March 11, 2018
According to a 2017 survey by Gallup, the weekly median spending on food for American families is $130 — that's roughly $520 a month. Specifically, 24% spend less than $100 a week, 42% spend $100 to $199 a week, 18% spend $200 to $299 a week, and 12% spend $300 or more. But that amount ofÃâà...
Mashable
March 6, 2018
Forbes magazine has released its annual list of super duper rich people on Tuesday, and move over Bill Gates because Jeff Bezos is flush with cash. ... Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly worth $71 billion, behind Warren Buffett and Bernard Arnault and family, respectively.
CNBC
March 5, 2018
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates might be one of the world's most well-known billionaires, but a new generation of Gates is coming up. ... "No one else in my family competes, but they love being around my horses and riding occasionally for pleasure when we're on vacation," Gates told Sidelines in 2016.
Entrepreneur
March 2, 2018
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no fan of cryptocurrencies, which he says have become a vehicle for crime, and in some cases can result in people's deaths. During a ... "Today computers can do simple things like search for specific words, but concepts like vacation or career or family are not 'understood.
Money Magazine
March 1, 2018
Bill Gates hosted his 6th Reddit “Ask Me Anything” on Wednesday, where he answered a variety of questions, ranging from his thoughts on climate change to his ... The question was actually framed in a very interesting way: Would he have become so successful had he been from a low-income family.
PYMNTS.com
February 28, 2018
Bitcoin Daily: Starbucks' Potential Blockchain App, Bill Gates Calls Crypto 'Super Risky' ... Bill Gates, though, is not entirely sold on crypto. .... that a whistleblower inside Denmark's biggest bank warned the institution that its Estonian branch was being used by members of the Putin family as a front for money laundering.
GeekWire
February 27, 2018
He said he will not be running for president in 2020; he's not a big beer drinker; his wife Melinda Gates is among his favorite celebrities; he thinks the speculative wave around crypto currencies is super risky; he's certain there will be another financial crisis similar to what happened in 1998; and he doesn'tÃâà...
Quartz
February 27, 2018
Earlier this month, Melinda and Bill Gates's annual letter said they'd been looking to identify areas in which they could expand their philanthropic work in ... of opportunities within his country: A stroll to Facebook's cafeteria, whose workers are forced to live with their families in garages, would have sufficed.
Axios
February 27, 2018
Today computers can do simple things like search for specific words but concepts like vacation or career or family are not 'understood.' " He's not running for President: "I won't be running for President because I am super committed to the work Melinda and I are doing at the Foundation and outside the Foundation. I agree itÃâà...
CNBC
February 21, 2018
They also answered more personal questions, including, "What happens when the two of you disagree?" "Working together as well as raising a family together, there's a certain intensity to that," Bill said during a Q&A with Melinda and Lin-Manuel Miranda in New York City last week. "But we're very luckyÃâà...
Business Insider
February 21, 2018
Billionaire Bill Gates sat down with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres for the first time this week. ... "I don't have that many things that are extravagant taste, so it didn't change too much," Gates said, adding that his primary concern at the time was being able to pay his employees, many of whom had families toÃâà...
AZFamily
February 18, 2018
(CNN) -- Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates says he should pay more in taxes and that the government should require other superwealthy people like him to contribute "significantly higher" amounts. "I need to pay higher taxes," Gates, who is worth over $90 billion, said in an interview with CNN'sÃâà...
CNBC
February 16, 2018
If you saw the video of Boston Dynamics' robot dog opening up a door for its fellow robot dog this week and were summarily frightened into believing the end is nigh, you are not alone. But also this week, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates gave reason to press pause on any apocalypse scenarios.
Markets Insider
February 13, 2018
"We both come from families that believed in leaving the world better than you found it," she wrote. The Gates' love of the work is easy to see in the way they discuss their various initiatives on Facebook and in the Gates Notes blog. (The classic example of this is the video in which Bill Gates takes a few sipsÃâà...
TheStranger.com
December 31, 1999
Not all bad news about “The Big One”: Single family homes should be okay. The wooden frames are flexible and will hold up with ground shaking. Additionally, even minor retrofitting of older commercial buildings would save a lot of lives. An earthquake during a wet season like winter or fall will be moreÃâà...
Quartz
December 31, 1999
“[Green] is one of her favorite authors, and she's converted our entire family to fans of his books,” he says of his daughter. Turtles All the Way Down might make for especially good dinner conversation for the Gates. The book is about Aza, a teenage girl with obsessive compulsive disorder, who goes inÃâà...
Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
December 31, 1999
Today computers can do simple things like search for specific words but concepts like vacation or career or family are not 'understood.' Microsoft and others are working on this to create a helpful assistant. It has always been kind of a holy grail of software particularly now that vision and speech are largelyÃâà...
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