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Bono Wishes A Happy Birthday To Bill Gates
6:33AM Jesus Diaz | Bill Gates — one of my favourite Gizmodo readers, technology capo di tutti capi and philanthropist — was in Vancouver last week, watching a U2 in concert and celebrating. And of course, Bono greeted him. Belated Happy Birthday, Señor Gates. [Techflash]
Business
Ballmer On Those Crazy Ballmer YouTube Videos
6:45AM Wilson Rothman | This is the one you’ve waited for, where I get Steve to talk about his animalistic YouTube persona. But how do you ask calm collected Steve about crazy sweaty Steve? Very carefully. More »
Random Stuff
Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Lollies
6:00PM Rosa Golijan | Bill Gates is on another charitable streak through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a $US100,000 investment to find a way to fight childhood malaria with chocolate and gum. More »
Business
Bill Gates Lost $US7B Last Year, Is Still Richer Than God
11:20AM Adam Frucci | Pity poor Bill Gates! In this terrible economy, he lost $US7 billion last year, bringing his net worth down to… $US50 Billion. More »
Business
12 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Showed Up At A Jobsnote
7:00AM Adam Frucci | Remember this? When Steve had to put a live feed of Bill Gates up in front of a seething mass of fanboys in exchange for $US150 million to save Apple from certain death? More »
Computers
Bill Gates Predicts Tablets To Be ‘Most Popular Form Of PC Sold In US’
7:51AM Mark Wilson | Our own Adam Frucci doesn’t like the idea of tablet computing. And most of the world agreed with him back in 2001 when Bill Gates and Microsoft were pushing the form factor. More »
Online
You’re A Bigger Internet Nerd Than Bill Gates
2:39AM Matt Buchanan | Over 10,000 friend requests later, Bill Gates has sworn off Facebook. Fair enough, but he’s “not that big at text messaging” and “not a 24-hour-a-day tech person,” told a business forum in India. He even reads stuff on dead trees! “I read a lot and some of that reading is not on a computer.” More »
Software
7:20AM Bill Gates | Our Gizmodo ‘79 celebration may have ended last week, but there’s room for a final post, written by famed retiree and mosquito wrangler Bill Gates. It’s no joke: Gates read the series then sent this in: More »
Bill Gates, Guest Writer, Reflects On Microsoft 1979
7:20AM Bill Gates | Our Gizmodo ‘79 celebration may have ended last week, but there’s room for a final post, written by famed retiree and mosquito wrangler Bill Gates. It’s no joke: Gates read the series then sent this in: More »
Business
When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
6:20AM John Herrman | Anyone who knows tech knows certain names—Gates, Jobs, Woz, Kamen, Stringer—but before they became legends, they were busy doing, well, some curious stuff. Here’s a glance at their lives circa 1979: More »
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