Bill Gates
Bill Gates wants to give away 99% wealth by 2045
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has announced on May 8 that he plans to donate nearly all of his wealth within the next two decades, significantly accelerating the timeline for winding down the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
9 May 2025, 10:37 AM
AI generated images of tech billionaires go viral
Some AI-generated images of the richest tech billionaires in the world have recently gone viral on the internet.
11 April 2023, 09:57 AM
Pausing AI won't 'solve challenges': Bill Gates
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said that calls to pause the development of artificial intelligence will not “solve the challenges” ahead.
6 April 2023, 09:56 AM
‘ChatGPT will change our world’: Bill Gates
ChatGPT is a chatbot that responds to user inquiries in a remarkably human-like manner.
12 February 2023, 13:59 PM
Science of Simplicity: Why successful people aren’t into showing off brands
What do Mark Zuckerberg, John Paul DeJoria and Bill Gates have in common apart from mega success? Their nondescript clothes, of course. Where celebrities pull out all the stops with their designer wear at every occasion, a majority of those belonging to the uber rich club wear and re-wear the most ordinary looking shirts and t-shirts to all sorts of extravagant occasions, rather nonchalantly. What is it that makes these pocket heavy people so carefree in their choice of wardrobe, even when they know they are constantly under the glare of the media?
21 July 2022, 12:38 PM
Bezos, Gates and Buffett still top world's rich list: Forbes
Jeff Bezos remains the world's richest person, ahead of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, according to the latest Forbes list of the ultra wealthy.
5 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Ellen makes Billionaire Bill Gates guess grocery prices
Bill Gates appears on the "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", and plays a guessing game in which he attempts to name the prices of various household products and food items.
22 February 2018, 08:02 AM
Bill Gates ditches Windows Phone for Android
The Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announces in an interview with Fox News Sunday that instead of Windows Phone he's now using an Android phone.
27 September 2017, 10:57 AM
Buffett donates $3.17b to Gates charity, 4 others
Warren Buffett on Monday donated roughly $3.17 billion of Berkshire Hathaway Inc stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and four family charities, his largest contribution in a more than decade-long plan to give away his fortune.
11 July 2017, 09:39 AM
What do successful people have in common?
What do Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Jack Ma have in common?
22 April 2017, 07:52 AM
Sonia Bashir Kabir wins Microsoft Founder Award
Sonia Bashir Kabir, managing director of Microsoft Bangladesh has won the prestigious Founders Award given by Bill Gates.
1 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Seminar on “E-Commerce in Bangladesh”
Bill Gates had once quoted, “If your business is not on the internet, then your business will be out of business”.
17 February 2016, 18:00 PM
bKash revolutionising banking for poor: Bill Gates
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest philanthropic organisation, has in the past given away money, much of it to fight infectious diseases.
Now it has a new strategy of investing in technologies that can make goods and services affordable to the poor.
24 January 2016, 08:00 AM
Bill Gates: US 'should take more' refugees
The United States "should set a better example" by taking in more refugees, the billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates tells the BBC.
22 January 2016, 14:15 PM
5 Bill Gates quotes everyone should hear
Over the years, Bill Gates has given us quite a few pearls of wisdom that perfectly capture his philanthropic sensibility and business acumen.
29 October 2015, 08:08 AM
Zuckerberg moves closer to become world's richest person
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has moved a step closer to becoming the richest person in the world.
23 July 2015, 15:05 PM
Protests grow against Facebook's Internet.org
The backlash against Facebook's "free mobile data" Internet.org scheme has spread across the globe.
19 May 2015, 15:01 PM
Bill Gates is named world's richest person again
Bill Gates is declared the richest man in the world for the 16th time by Forbes magazine's annual ranking of global billionaires
3 March 2015, 05:17 AM