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Top 10 tech news stories of the decade
As hard as it may be to remember now, the dot-com boom was nearing its dizzying peak as the decade started. But just as the bust hit a few months later, Google was pairing a savvy business model with great technology, Apple was most decidedly getting its mojo back, and Bill Gates was becoming exasperated with those pesky trustbusters.
2009-12-31 -
CNN
Carlos Slim détrône Bill Gates
L'homme le plus riche du monde n'est plus Bill Gates. Le cofondateur de Microsoft s'est fait détrôner par le Mexicain Carlos Slim, selon le classement 2010 des milliardaires de ...
2010-03-11 -
Le Point
Recent Toshiba Corporation News
Tokyo, Mar 30, 2010 (IRG) - Japanese technology firm Toshiba has teamed up with TerraPower, a company controlled and promoted by Bill Gates, to develop nuclear reactors that can run for more than 100 years without periodic refueling of the uranium.
2010-04-03 -
Japan Corporate News
H. Edward Roberts dies at 68
H. Edward Roberts, 68, who developed an early personal computer that inspired Bill Gates to found Microsoft, died April 1 of pneumonia at a hospital in Macon, Ga.
2010-04-05 -
Washington Post
Apple supplante Microsoft en Bourse
C'est pourtant ce qui est arrivé mercredi 26 mai, lorsque l'action de la firme créée par Bill Gates, pâtissant du retournement de la Bourse de New York et ...
2010-05-27 -
La Croix
Microsoft Has Six Mobile Operating Systems
Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation that focuses on developing, licensing, and manufacturing software for computers. It was founded by Bill Gates. Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, and is most recognized for...
2010-06-17 -
Business Insider
Bill Gates to keynote at 2010 mHealth Summit
Bill Gates, Co-Chair and Trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will provide a keynote address on the opportunity of mobile technologies to improve health outcomes in the developing world at the 2010 mHealth Summit, the summit organizers announced today. The summit, organized by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health in partnership with the National Institutes of Health ...
2010-08-04 -
News-Medical-Net
U.S. Billionaires Pledge Fortunes To Charity
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett (R) and Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates (L) at Columbia University in New York, November 12, 2009. More than 30 US billionaires pledged on Wednesday to give away at least 50 percent of their wealth to charity as part of a campaign by investor Buffett and Gates.
2010-08-05 -
Bernama
Bill Gates tops Forbes 400 'rich list' for 17th straight year
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 20:25:00 BOSTON: Microsoft founder Bill Gates has retained his position as the richest man in the United States with a net worth of US$54 billion, topping Forbes '400 Richest Americans List' for the 17th year in a row, according to Press Trust of India on Thursday. Industrialist Warren Buffett, Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, has bagged the ...
2010-09-23 -
The Malay Mail
Gates tops Forbes' rich list for 17th year
BOSTON: Microsoft founder Bill Gates has retained his position as the richest man in the United States with a net worth of US$54 billion, topping Forbes '400 Richest Americans List' for the 17th year in a row, according to Press Trust of India on Thursday.
2010-09-23 -
New Straits Times
Bottoms up! Drinks magnate is China's richest
Beverage magnate Zong Qinghou tops the list of the richest men in China with a personal wealth worth an estimated $12 billion, according to a survey. China - Zong Qinghou - Forbes list of billionaires - Bill Gates - Asia
2010-09-29 -
MSNBC
Proposed wealth tax puts Microsoft icons at odds
The state that produced America's richest man has never taken a cut of its residents' income. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his father would like to change that in Washington state; the company's CEO would not.
2010-10-01 -
MSNBC
Washington wealthy clash over income tax on rich
The state that produced America's richest man has never taken a cut of its residents' income. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his father would like to change that. Bill Gates - Microsoft - United States - Income tax - Tax
2010-10-01 -
Boston Globe
State's wealthy clash over income tax on rich
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and his father are among the wealthy Washingtonians who have joined labor unions and other traditional Democratic allies to support a tax-the-rich ballot measure that is dividing the state's business leaders.
2010-10-01 -
KOMO Seattle