Bill Gates
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Real test of NDA govt is how it embraces unpopular decisions: Gates
India | Sep 19, 2014, 07:13 AM ISTNew Delhi: The real test for India's new government would lie in how it embraces unpopular decisions which would be of benefit to the country, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said.“The real test of the
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Gates back on top of Forbes' billionaire rankings
Mar 04, 2014, 11:29 PM ISTNew York: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person.Forbes magazine announced its ranking of the world's billionaires Monday. Gates, who led the list for 15 of the past 20 years, won
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Top 10 richest people on planet in 2014
Oct 24, 2014, 12:24 PM ISTNew Delhi: The richest people in the world got even richer in 2013, adding $524 billion to their collective net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world's 300 wealthiest
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Bill Gates world's most admired person, Sachin Tendulkar fifth, Modi 7th : poll
India | Jan 12, 2014, 08:44 PM ISTLondon: Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been named as the most admired person on the planet with cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar fifth on a list of 30 people compiled after a poll in 13 countries,
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Top executives share the best advice they ever received
Dec 20, 2013, 06:58 PM ISTNew Delhi: If you are looking to build a successful and rewarding career, then it makes sense to turn to those who have already been there and done that.Here is a list of tips from
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Bill Gates turns editor for technology magazine
Nov 14, 2013, 01:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: Popular technology and social media blog Mashable has reported that philanthropist and former Microsoft chief Bill Gates has turned guest editor for the December issue of Wired magazine. The Gates-edited magazine will include
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Watch in pics: Bill Gates $8.7 million Florida mansion
World | Nov 15, 2013, 02:41 PM ISTNew Delhi: One of the world's richest men Bill Gates bought this mansion in the winter equestrian capital Wellington to boost his daughter's showjumping career. The mansion was built in 2010. The four-acre luxury property
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Bill Gates should resign, 3 top Microsoft investors tell board
Oct 02, 2013, 09:42 AM ISTNew York/Seattle: Three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft Corp have told the company's board that the founder of the company and one of the world's richest men Bill Gates should now step down
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Bill Gates admits CTRL-ALT-DEL was mistake, as was dropping out of Harvard
Sep 27, 2013, 01:21 PM ISTNew Delhi: Microsoft co-founder has admitted for the first time that using the key combination of Control-Alt-Delete to log into a PC was a mistake.Gates commented on the so-called “three finger salute” in a talk
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Bill Gates, Kofi Annan back leniency for Rajat Gupta
World | Oct 13, 2012, 09:53 AM ISTNew York, Oct 13 : Rajat Gupta, Goldman Sachs' former Indian-American director convicted of insider trading, has received letters of support from the likes of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and former UN Secretary General Kofi
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India to be open-defecation free in ten years says Jairam Ramesh
National | Jun 30, 2012, 08:03 PM ISTAgartala, Jun 30: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said India has embarked on a ten-year mission to make India an open-defecation free country.The minister, who held a review meeting with representatives of Northeastern
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Bill Gates wants rich nations to be more generous on foreign aid
Jun 03, 2012, 12:28 PM ISTMumbai, Jun 3: Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is of the opinion that rich countries of the world should be more generous so far as foreign aid to third world
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Bill Gates' ultimate dream is, a low-cost toilet
Jun 01, 2012, 10:30 AM ISTNew Delhi, May31: After offering new age IT solutions to the world, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has now set his eyes on achieving his ‘ultimate' dream - low cost toilets.Come August and he will host
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Bill Gates Praises India For Polio Eradication
World | Jan 26, 2012, 01:31 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jan 26: Bill Gates, co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has praised India for managing to eradicate polio despite all odds. “In 2012, we need to keep India and all the other
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Bill Gates Developing Nuclear Reactor With China
World | Dec 07, 2011, 10:24 PM ISTBeijing, Dec 7: Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates says he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new kind of nuclear reactor. During a talk at China's ministry of science & technology on