Latest Bill Gates Stories
LIVERMORE, Calif., July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fellows of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation helped form a team that has been selected as grant recipients to participate in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge" (RTTC), announced at the AfricaSan conference in Rwanda as part of more than $40 million in new investments launching its Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene strategy. The winning "Biochar Group" is a volunteer...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, announced it had secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT and had received financing from France's Total and from a personal investment by Bill Gates. "This is an important step forward for Liquid Metal Battery Corporation," said Luis Ortiz, LMBC's...
PORTLAND, Ore., July 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Jason Franklin, a leading voice of the philanthropy world and executive director of Bolder Giving in NYC, will address America's brightest at Mensa's 2011 Annual Gathering July 1st, 2011. Mensa attendees, with membership requiring a top 2% IQ, will discover how anyone can expand social impact through well-considered philanthropy. Franklin's message is that outrageous generosity is an expanding trend for donors across the economic spectrum, many...
CLEVELAND, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- According to jobs expert Jeff Christian, founder of CTPartners and founder and CEO of Revenue Beast, "One might think that the top recruiters are Gerry Roche, or Tom Neff, however the actual list of top recruiters is quite different." Christian explained, "The top recruiters are Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and John Chambers. Rather than conducting searches for a fee, their model was to gobble up incredible talent. They knew how to scale companies...
$4.3 billion has been pledged by international donors, led by Britain and Bill Gates, to buy vaccines that help protect children in poor countries against life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhea, a London conference announced on Monday.Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), which is supported by Microsoft's Bill Gates, says the funding would save more than four million lives in the next four years, by providing more than 250 million of the world's poorest...
"Helping poor farming families grow more crops and get them to market is the world's single most powerful lever for reducing poverty and hunger." WASHINGTON, May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today told a group of political, business, and development leaders that supporting farming families in developing countries is critical to overcoming poverty and hunger. "I came here today to join those calling on the U.S. and...
"¢ 107 million spam emails received by UK homes each day or over 1,000 every second "“ up 30% from 82 million in 2007 "¢ Spamdemic spreads to mobiles "“ 4 million unsolicited text messages received every day "“ up 300% from 1 million in 2007 "¢ Just 8 out of 10 (79%) broadbanders have a spam filter, potentially leaving nearly 4 million (21%) completely exposed to email spam attacks "¢ 1.6 million Brits (8%) deal with unsolicited emails incorrectly, giving spammers an "˜open...
GENEVA, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, called on government leaders to increase their investments in vaccines and to hold themselves accountable for extending the benefits of vaccines to every child. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/gatesfoundation/49363/ (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110517/MM01624 ) In a keynote address at the 64th World...
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, United Way honored Microsoft Corporation with two Summit awards for the company's generosity and for innovative technology and software programs focused on improving education. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110504/MM95810LOGO) "Microsoft is maximizing all its resources, from financial to software to employee expertise, to improve education and help young people and communities," said Brian Gallagher, president...
SEATTLE, April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced 88 new winners of US$100,000 each to support innovative research that has the potential to dramatically improve lives in some of the world's poorest countries. The funding, made possible through the Grand Challenges Exploration (GCE) program, will enable researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges. "One bold idea is all it takes to...
