June 15th, 2022
NYC, 15th June 2022: The tech billionaire & founder of tech company Microsoft Bill Gates, criticised cryptocurrencies and NFTs. He termed cryptocurrency & Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) as fake, saying that it is based only on the Greater fool theory.
Gates was speaking at an event on climate change hosted by TechCrunch. Bill...
October 16th, 2018The co-founder of software giant Microsoft Paul Allen has passed away in Seattle at the age of 65. Along with Microsoft, Allen also founded a privately held company in 1986 called Vulcan.
It was two weeks ago that Allen tweeted and disclosed that the cancer, for which he was successfully treated nine years ago, had returned. He also...
April 19th, 2018Grail Inc, the cancer-detection startup backed by two world's wealthiest men is planning to raise $1 billion to push growth much ahead of its Initial Public Offering in Hong Kong.
The very first product that will focus on screening test for nasopharyngeal cancer will be launched this year informed Grail Incorporation.Nasopharyngeal...
November 25th, 2017Jeff Bezos worth surpassed $100 billion!
As per the Bloomberg's reports, Amazon Inc founder's net worth has exceeded $100 billion for the first time. As the online retailer's shares jumped more than 2 percent due to sale on Black Friday Amazon, it added $2.4 billion worth to Jeff making it to a total of $100,3 billion.
Jeff already...
October 28th, 2017Amazon.com Inc's post-earnings surge has pushed Jeff Bezos to the top of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index for the first time, ahead of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates who had held the spot as the richest person on Earth for four years.
Bloomberg Billionaire Index showed that Jeff Bezos added $10.4 billion to his net worth as Amazon...
September 27th, 2017Microsoft founder Bill Gates was all praises for the company's Indian-American CEO Satya Nadella, saying he has successfully charted a course for making the most of the opportunities created by technology and helped the IT giant to stand out in the computing industry.
In stepping out of the long shadow of former Microsoft leaders...
August 31st, 2017Spanish retailer Amancio Ortega became the world's richest person on Tuesday, claiming the crown for less than a day.
Ortega, 81, is now worth an estimated $85 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time rankings of the world’s billionaires. His net worth is up $1.2 billion in the last month Amancio Ortega, founder of Zara's parent...
June 1st, 2017An entrepreneur is someone who organises and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. Ever wondered how the likes of Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, J.K Rowling and many others became successful entrepreneurs? Believe it or not they know what it’s like to...
May 28th, 2017Linkedin Co-founder Reid Hoffman along with Bill Gates & others lead latest funding round of more than $30 million in change.org. The news was first disclosed by Reid Hoffman on his Linkedin account.
Other existing Change.org investors include Richard Branson, Ashton Kutcher, and the rapper Nas.
Change.org performs functions...
January 28th, 2017Microsoft Corp's market capitalization topped $500 billion for the first time since 2000 on Friday, after the technology giant's stock rose following another quarter of results that beat Wall Street's expectations.
Shares of the world's biggest software company rose as much as 2.1 percent to $65.64, an all-time high, in early...
December 13th, 2016Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and a group of high-profile executives are investing USD 1 billion in a fund to spur clean energy technology and address global climate change a year after the Paris climate agreement.
Gates launched the Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund on Monday along with billionaire entrepreneurs such as Facebook...
