Sentences with phrase «following bill gates»

If you have an interest in computers, technology or software, following Bill Gates is pretty much essential.

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If you're looking for book suggestions to fill your reading list this year, you could do a lot worse that follow the blog of Microsoft - founder - turned - philanthropist Bill Gates.

In the following excerpts, they recount the first of just two formal joint interviews with Steve Jobs, then running the ill - fated NeXT, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, which took place at Jobs's home in July 1991.

Following a long line of benefactors like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford, Microsoft founder Bill Gates ignited the current philanthropic revolution.

The investment is not part of Gates» philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will be followed with another $ 50 million in a number of start - up ventures working in Alzheimer's research, Gates said.

Bill Gates pledged $ 12 million toward universal flu vaccine research following a devastating flu season.

Take for example the following pairs: Bill and Melinda Gates Beyoncé and Jay - Z (the late) Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell

The overall Forbes list is topped as usual by Bill Gates of Microsoft, with $ 86 billion, followed by familiar names Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway at $ 75.6 billion and Jeff Bezos, whose $ 72.8 billion reflects a sharp rise in the value of Amazon.com.

The researchers started by asking Christian volunteers to give their own views on controversial topics, such as abortion, followed by what they thought were the views of God, average Americans and public figures such as Bill Gates.

The Weills have been following the footsteps of Bill and Melinda Gates» clean energy research fund by actively supporting research.

And certainly they don't yet (and likely never will) provide the detailed guidance that Jay, in a follow - up post, faults Bill Gates for promising.

Alongside the launch, BAE Systems conducted research that shows that a quarter of 14 to 18 - year - olds would rather follow in the footsteps of innovator Mark Zuckerberg (23 per cent) or tech genius Bill Gates (28 per cent) for careers over household names such as Ed Sheeran (17 per cent), David Beckham (9 per cent) and Kylie Jenner (9 per cent).

So, would a President Hillary Clinton follow the education ideas of Bill Gates?

ASCD receives a follow - up, two - year grant of $ 250,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to provide educators with free, ongoing, virtual professional development training focused on the instructional shifts required by the Common Core State Standards.

So far, I've gleefully picked on Bill Gates, Penny Pritzker, Bruce Rauner and Walmart, and generally followed my own advice.

Following a speech last October in which Bill Gates announced a major shift in the education priorities and strategy of his foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is moving to implement its plan to invest the biggest share of its education philanthropy dollars in education networks that come up with their own «locally driven solutions» to improve student achievement.

Secretary Duncan's remarks were followed by speeches from Alan Golston, the President of the U.S. Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and from District of Columbia Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee.

More practically to daily ordinary life, in an «ask me anything» session on Reddit less than two weeks ago, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, answered the following about what he thought technology would hold in the next 30 years:

If the deeply transformative impact technology has had on our lives in recent decades is not convincing, without attempting to even try to address any number of infinite areas of life on which technology has had an impact, the «2015 Gates Annual Letter» of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation projects that technology will profoundly affect, at the very least, the following core areas of life:

In fact, Bill Gates launched a miserable tablet with Windows 3.11 on it, then he launched a miserable tablet with Windows 95 on it, then a miserable tablet with Windows ME on it, followed by a miserable tablet with Windows Vista on it, a miserable tablet with Windows 7 on it, and several even * more * miserable tablets with Windows 8 and 8.1 on it.

Following is a transcript of the interview Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg conducted with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the D5 conference on May 30, 2007.

The news, which followed a long application process beginning last September, came as a surprise to the team of six, not least because Bill Gates has been publicly skeptical about the future of the payment technology in the developing world.