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REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Speaking to shareholders at Microsoft Corp.'s annual meeting today, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer highlighted the company's recent product launches and financial performance, and outlined the company's shift to devices and services. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO) "In 2012, our revenue grew to a record $73.7 billion," Ballmer said. "We also maintained strong cost discipline resulting in cash flow...
NEW YORK, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jeffrey Modell Foundation (JMF), a global non-profit organization dedicated to early diagnosis, proper treatment, and public awareness of genetic immune deficiency diseases, known as Primary Immunodeficiencies (PI), today announced a working collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to achieve a common goal to end polio worldwide. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...
Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations grants invest in bold ideas to address global health and development challenges SEATTLE, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced more than $21 million US in new grants through its Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) initiative. GCE is a tiered granting mechanism that funds innovative ideas to tackle key global health and development problems, and provides additional resources for...
REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today commemorated its 30th Employee Giving Campaign and announced that U.S. employees raised $1 billion in cash since 1983 for approximately 31,000 U.S.-based nonprofits and community organizations. CEO Steve Ballmer announced the milestone during a special town hall event at the Microsoft Redmond campus, which included Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Washington State Gov. Chris Gregoire. (Logo:...
REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.23 per share, reflecting a 3 cent or 15 percent increase over the previous quarter's dividend. The dividend is payable December 13, 2012 to shareholders of record on November 15, 2012. The ex-dividend date will be November 13, 2012. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO) The company also announced that Raymond V....
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Modern sanitation is a major problem for nearly a third of the world’s population. To attack the issue head on, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has called forth on scientists to reinvent an everyday object that many of us take for granted: the toilet. Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates announced during a technology showcase in Seattle this week that his foundation would allot further funding for...
SEATTLE, Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bill Gates today announced the winners of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge--an effort to develop "next-generation" toilets that will deliver safe and sustainable sanitation to the 2.5 billion people worldwide who don't have it. The awards recognize researchers from leading universities who are developing innovative ways to manage human waste, which will help improve the health and lives of people around the world. To view the multimedia...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced the first in a series of agreements with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and UNITAID to buy-down the price of the Xpert(®) MTB/RIF test in an effort to drive adoption of the technology as a critical tool in interrupting the transmission cycle of...
Grand Valley State University will host the inaugural conference of The International Big History Association, August 2-5. Big History has caught the attention of scientists and academics from across the globe, as well as the interest and financial support of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (PRWEB) July 23, 2012 Something BIG has been brewing for more than two decades. Big History has caught the attention of scientists and academics from across the globe, as well as the...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Billionaire philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates of the Gates Foundation are set to unveil funding for a campaign to improve access to contraception in the developing world, a cause that has been near and dear to their hearts for more than a decade. The Gates’ have been supporting contraception since first mulling over special causes to support in the mid 1990s. And Melinda, who told Reuters she and her husband are committed...
