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    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      Geopolitics
      Xi meets ‘old friend’ Gates ahead of Blinken’s China visit

      President’s first confirmed contact with a US business leader this year signals tentative dialogue reopening

      Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Chinese president Xi Jinping met in Beijing on Friday
    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast28 min listen
      Bill Gates on Ukraine’s ‘shock to the system’

      US philanthropist on shrinking aid budgets, climate, technology and China-US tensions

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      ReviewTelevision
      Bill Gates is probed and baited in BBC interview with Amol Rajan

      The billionaire ‘face of American computing’ discusses work, philanthropy, God and romance

      A photo of Bill Gates in a grey sweater standing in front of a house next to Amol Rajan
    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      Interview
      Elon Musk’s Twitter is ‘stirring up’ digital polarisation, says Bill Gates

      ‘Seat-of-the-pants’ management of social media platform worries Microsoft co-founder

      Bill Gates
    • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
      InterviewBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      Bill Gates warns Ukraine war is sapping Europe’s foreign aid budgets

      Largest philanthropic fund says world ‘on track to achieve almost none’ of UN development goals

      Bill Gates
    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Moral Money
      Is Tucker Carlson right to blame ESG for Sri Lanka’s crisis? Premium content

      Plus, what’s behind Bill Gates’ new $20bn pledge

      Protesters inside the presidential palace in Colombo, Sri Lanka. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled to Singapore
    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
      Bill Gates donates another $20bn to his charitable foundation

      World’s fourth-richest man plans to boost annual distributions by 50% and warns of ‘huge global setbacks’

      Business magnate and philanthropist Bill Gates pictured in Idaho, US, this month
    • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
      Coronavirus
      Bill Gates calls for global surveillance team to spot pandemic threats

      The philanthropist urges world leaders to increase spending to improve preparedness for health threats

      Computer rendering of T-cells
    • Monday, 25 April, 2022
      Gates-backed company accused of firing whistleblowers

      US-listed Ecolab also praised ‘integrity’ of compliance culprit

      Ecolab premises in St Paul, Minnesota, US
    • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans massive giving expansion

      Annual spending jumps to $6.7bn as foundation overhauls governance following co-chairs’ divorce

      Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates
    • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
      Bill Gates warns of pandemics potentially far worse than Covid

      Philanthropist calls on governments to contribute billions to tackle future pathogens and increase vaccine supplies

      Bill Gates
    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      Technology sector
      Bill Gates-backed fund aims to invest $15bn in clean tech

      Breakthrough Energy Catalyst to leverage private-public capital to subsidise new markets for green technologies

      An American Airlines plane standing on the tarmac
    • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
      Microsoft Corp
      Microsoft shareholders back protest vote over sexual harassment claims

      Tech group called on to reveal more about handling of allegations in wake of pervasive cases

      Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
    • Sunday, 31 October, 2021
      Innovation
      Bill Gates: Funding clean technology is the way to avoid climate disaster

      We need to turn lab-proven concepts into ubiquitous products that people want and can afford to buy

      Close up picture of Bill Gates gesturing with both hands as he speaks during the Global Investment Summit at the Science Museum in London this week
    • Wednesday, 8 September, 2021
      Four Seasons Hotels Inc
      Bill Gates vehicle buys $2.2bn stake in Four Seasons from Saudi royal

      Tech billionaire cements control over luxury hotel group after deal with Prince Alwaleed

      A doorman waits to hail a taxi outside a New York hotel owned by Four Seasons
    • Wednesday, 8 September, 2021
      Mining
      BHP links up with Bill Gates-backed AI start-up to prospect for metals

      World’s biggest miner to harness KoBold’s technology to predict location of deposits

      Nickel samples inside a laboratory at a BHP refinery
    • Sunday, 18 July, 2021
      Health sector
      Soros and Gates back buyout of UK diagnostic technology group

      Mologic will be turned into a social enterprise for testing tropical diseases

    • Sunday, 11 July, 2021
      The Big Read
      The political awakening of Melinda French Gates

      The philanthropist has shifted from an intensely private figure to a leader comfortable in the spotlight

    • Wednesday, 7 July, 2021
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      Gates Foundation makes contingency plans for break-up

      Deal unveiled by philanthropic giant would give Melinda French Gates option of going it alone

      Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates
    • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      Gates Foundation pledges to donate $2.1bn to women’s causes

      First major initiative announced since philanthropic juggernaut was roiled by marital split

      Bill and Melinda Gates in 2018
    • Thursday, 17 June, 2021
      Microsoft Corp
      Microsoft chief Satya Nadella also takes on chair role

      Appointment comes amid scrutiny of board over handling of Bill Gates’s departure as a director

      Satya Nadella
    • Friday, 28 May, 2021
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      Gates foundation considers governance changes following divorce filing

      Billionaire couple’s pending split could alter way the charitable group operates

      Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates
    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Bill Gates says investigation into affair ‘in no way related’ to leaving Microsoft board

      Tech company reviewed relationship between co-founder and an employee

      Bill Gates
    • Friday, 7 May, 2021
      Jennifer Petriglieri
      The Gates divorce shows the messy reality for couples who work together

      Sustaining both a romantic and professional relationship is hard graft

      Bill and Melinda Gates said they no longer believe they ‘can grow together’ but will continue to ‘work together to shape and approve foundation strategies’
    • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
      ExplainerBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation faces uncertain governance after split

      Memos insist ‘business as usual’ at philanthropic organisation despite founders heading for divorce

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