William Henry Gates, III
1955-
American Computer Scientist and Businessman
An internationally renowned computer programming pioneer and businessman, Bill Gates has won fame and fortune as a brilliant ...
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Gates, Bill
Born in Seattle, Washington, on October 28, 1955, William Henry Gates III, founder of the Microsoft computer empire, is, in the year 2003, the world's wealthiest
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Microsoft co-founder and chief executive officer William (Bill) H. Gates III (born 1955) became the wealthiest man in America and one of the most influential personalities on the ever-evolving informa...
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William Gates, the son of a prominent Seattle, Washington lawyer, was an underachieving math whiz in school. He was first exposed to digital computers while in the seventh grade and worked on various ...
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Bill Gates's supreme accomplishment has been to design and develop innovative software for the personal computer. Gate's software helped make PCs the universally popular machines they are today. Commu...
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Bill Gates, born William Henry Gates III, was first introduced to computers at Lakeside, a private school known for its intense academics environment. It was in the spring of 1968 that Lakeside decide...
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Have you ever dreamed of being a billionaire and being able to turn that money into good deeds for the less fortunate? Of course, all of us want to be billionaires, and after enjoying some of the mo...
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Bill Gates offered his vision Thursday for a new kind of capitalism that benefits the poor as well as the rich.Microsoft Corp.'s chairman and co-founder, one of the world's wealthiest men, said bus...
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It's almost too painful to talk about pharma's reputation these days, and, to be brutally honest, PhRMA, which ought to be serving as a powerful voice for what's right about the industry, has reall...
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In a recent column, Phillip Swann takes Bill Gates to task for saying that TV is terrible and that consumers will reject it in favor of Internet-based video within the next five years. Swann argues...
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Billionaire Bill Gates has
taken a stake worth $392 million in Mexican brewer Femsa,
according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing
Thursday. Gates' Cascade...
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Las Vegas (dpa) - You can't really argue with a guy whose vision,
expertise and sheer hard work have made him the world's richest man
at the same time as placing him at the ...
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told Congress on Wednesday that overhauls of the nation's schools and immigration laws are urgently needed to keep jobs from going overseas. "The U.S. cannot maintain ...
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Software tycoon Bill Gates gave his backing to a new initiative unveiled by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to tackle killer diseases in developing countries, but donor countries offered no new...
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Hamburg/Las Vegas, Nevada (dpa) - The first time Bill Gates
addressed a technology trade show at Las Vegas, his dad came along to
help.
Back in 1983, Microsof...
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LAS VEGAS, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill
Gates on Sunday took center stage at the world's largest
technology show for the last time and predicted that his
industry was on the cusp...
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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and wife Melinda sat down with Vietnam's prime minister on Tuesday to discuss ways to improve children's health in the communist country."We're learning about th...
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