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Bad Press Continues To Dog Bill Gates Amid Reports He Was Pushed Off Microsoft Board For Inappropriate Relationship
Bill Gates was nudged off the Microsoft board in 2020 as directors pursued an investigation into the company founder's prior relationship with a female employee, according to news reports.
Members of the board had hired a law firm to examine the issue in 2019 after a Microsoft engineer alleged in a letter that she had…
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Bill And Melinda Gates Split After 27 Years: “We No Longer Believe We Can Grow Together As A Couple”
Bill and Melinda Gates, who built a large and multi-faceted philanthropic organization that became the focus for Bill Gates after he left Microsoft, are splitting.
The couple announced their decision on Twitter.
“We have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable…
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By Dade Hayes
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Anthony McCarten & Compelling Pictures To Make Film Of Warren Buffett & Bill Gates’ Kinship And Unprecedented Charitable Initiatives
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony McCarten and his Muse of Fire Productions struck a deal with newly formed producer/financier Compelling Pictures, to produce the big screen adaptation of his forthcoming non-fiction book Wednesday at Warren's, Friday at Bill's. The book is both a rigorous examination of the 30-year friendship…
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Bill Gates Exits Microsoft Board To Focus On Philanthropy Full-Time, Ends An Era At The Company
It’s the end of an era at Microsoft.
The giant company announced Friday that co-founder and Technology Advisor Bill Gates stepped down from the board of directors to dedicate more time to his philanthropic efforts, including global health, development, education and his increasing work tackling climate change…
Bill Gates Docuseries From ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Director Set At Netflix
Netflix has announced a new docuseries about Microsoft founder Bill Gates from Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, He Named Me Malala). The three-part series, Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates explores the mind and motivations of the tech visionary, business leader and philanthropist. It’s set…
Sun Valley Agenda Details: Pro Sports Rights, Brexit, Mike Pompeo And More
EXCLUSIVE: While talk of direct-to-consumer streaming and the M&A climate is in the air at Allen & Co.’s annual retreat in Sun Valley, the actual day-by-day agenda includes sessions reaching far beyond the media racket.
Cybersecurity, foreign affairs, education, Brexit and the human brain will all be explored in the…
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Bill Gates To Guest Star In ‘The Big Bang Theory’
Bill Gates has been tapped to guest star in an upcoming episode of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory.
The billionaire Microsoft founder and philanthropist will appear as himself in an episode to air in March. When Penny (Kaley Cuoco) hosts Gates at work, the guys do everything in their power to meet him.
Gates previously…
Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Retreat: Opioid Epidemic, Barry Diller, Bill Gates Take Center Stage
Another day at Sun Valley and another round a panel discussions, with attention this year paid on this country’s growing opioid epidemic — i.e. overdoses and prescription drug dependency driven by over-prescriptions of drugs such as pain meds. The crisis is growing at an alarming rate in this country and now is the…
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By Anita Busch
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Microsoft Taps Satya Nadella To Be CEO
After a search process that seemed as drawn out as a season of American Idol, Microsoft decided to stick with an insider to replace Steve Ballmer in the software company’s top job. A 22-year veteran of the company, Satya Nadella was EVP of the Cloud and Enterprise group, and formerly oversaw the Bing search service. Mi…
Tech And Media Execs Continue To Dominate Forbes’ Richest Americans List
Bill Gates‘ net worth of $72B enabled him to claim the top spot on the Forbes tally for the 20th consecutive year — followed by Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett ($58.5B), Oracle’s Larry Ellison ($41B), and then Koch Industries’ Charles and David Koch ($36B). While Buffett fattened his holdings the most over the…
TNT To Re-Air 'Pirates Of Silicon Valley'
Will Hollywood Book Biopic Of Steve Jobs?
As a tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died yesterday, TNT will preempt its primetime lineup for two back-to-back airings at 8 PM and 10 PM of its 1999 original movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, the only film to date that portrays the technology innovator. It follows…
Oprah Only Hollywood Star At Camp Allen
Hollywood arrived at the annual Allen & Co investment conference in Sun Valley today — but I don’t know why. It’ll be a showbiz snorefest. Because only “A Conversation With Oprah Winfrey” is scheduled and no one is interested unless she comes clean about how much money she’s caused Discovery’s David Zaslav to piss…
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