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Gates stressed on promoting quality and user friendly toilets to ensure their proper use.
Last winter, Microsoft founder Bill Gates spent a whopping $600,000 per month to rent a plush bungalow in Wellington, Florida.
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates have announced the decision to end their marriage after 27 years, saying "we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in the next phase of our lives".
How could we have been so wrong? Nothing but love for these tech moguls, then and now.
Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates will inaugurate the Digital Lifestyle 2005 to be organised in Bangalore by MAIT, the apex body representing the hardware, training and R&D services sectors of the IT industry in India.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and retiring Chief Executive Steve Ballmer are standing for re-election to Microsoft Corp's board of directors, despite recent moves by some investors to reduce their influence.
The next version of Microsoft Corporation's Office software will feature simpler graphics and try to anticipate users' tasks to make the product easier to use, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has said.
Gates says he wants to spend more time on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
'If people want to work 90 hours, we should let them work.' 'If people want to work 30 hours, you should let them work 30 hours.' 'But they should not expect the same level of success and attention.'
Microsoft, the world's largest software company, is keen to partner India in a project to issue unique identification to each citizen, its chairman Bill Gates said on Friday.
In what was seen as a huge surprise for his constituents, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit his parliamentary constituency of Amethi with Microsoft chief Bill Gates. The visit was kept a closely guarded secret until the news broke out late on Monday evening.
Gates said that fifty years ago, no 55-person company was bought for $19 billion
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, challenged global leaders in his fourth annual letter to invest in innovations that are accelerating progress against poverty, or risk a future in which millions needlessly starve.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says that people will see a sea change in the way they interact with computers in the coming five years.
The most innovative thing in our industry was the idea of creating a software industry around the personal computer.
The South African Federation of the Urban Poor on Thursday disclosed this in statement saying the money was donated by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The money would be directed through the Slum/Shack Dwellers International, which is based in South Africa.
One year has passed since his startling declaration, but there are no apparent signs that Gates is ready to step away, said The New York Times.
Gates, who is also co-chair in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, further said since the issue of climate change is "complicated", different interventions are required to be taken including developing new variety of seeds and their distribution to farmers.
Despite their business rivalry, Gautam Adani did attend the big pre-wedding event in Jamnagar hosted by Mukesh Ambani over the weekend.
Out of 24,230 IIT and NIT grads, about 8,000 students didn't find any takers during campus placement drives this year.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has said that the curbs on how many foreign workers US tech firms can bring into the United States should be done away with, according to news reports.
By 2035 most countries will have higher per-capita income than what China has right now.
S Somasegar, senior vice president, Microsoft Corporation, shares his experiences of having worked closely with Bill Gates.
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The Microsoft founder told lawmakers that the immigration system would have to be revamped in such a fashion so as to allow more number of people to get into America on H-1B visas and it did not make sense for a bright foreign student to be educated using American tax-payers money and then sent home on some immigration requirement. "It makes no sense to educate people in our universities, often subsidised by US taxpayers, and then insist they return home," Gates said.
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates promised to extend all support to Centre's efforts to expand the reach and effectiveness of sustainable sanitation services .
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has offered to set up high tech agro kiosks across Maharasthra to help farmers get information on weather and cropping patterns.
Gates and his wife Melinda, 44, have three children -- Jennifer, 14, Rory, 11, and eight-year-old Phoebe.
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Microsoft Corporation on Tuesday announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately.
Aadhaar is something that had never been done by any government before, not even in a rich country
Rajinikanth's older daughter Aishwaryaa gave us a little preview of her parents' visit to Jamnagar for the pre-wedding celebrations of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani.
The innovative sewage plant can turn human faeces into electricity and clean drinking water.
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard whne he was just 19 to start Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975.
American business tycoon and philanthropist Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Friday announced an emergency relief fund of $700,000 for the flood victims of Jammu and Kashmir.
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