Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates Is Now The Richest Man In The World Again

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) chairman, co-founder, and former CEO Bill Gates is now the richest man in the world again, according to Bloomberg.  Gates was previously dethroned by Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim back in 2007.  Gates still owns 436 million shares in Microsoft and the stock price of the company is now at a five-year high, up 27% this year alone.  This increased Gates’ wealth on paper.  Gates is now worth around $72.1 billion, which is over half a bill dollars ahead of Carlos Slim.

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Interview: Bill Gates Wishes He Had Steve Jobs’ Sense Of Design

Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates was recently interviewed by Charlie Rose on 60 Minutes about his relationship with the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.  Gates and Jobs were intense rivals, but had a lot of respect for each other.
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Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Sean Parker, and Brad Smith Join FWD.us

Earlier this month, we wrote about how Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg launched a political group called FWD.us.  Now Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft General Counsel and EVP Brad Smith, and Airtime founder Sean Parker have also joined FWD.us.  FWD.us is focused on immigration, education, and employment issues in Washington D.C.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen Re-Enact Classic Photo

In 1981, Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen took a photo where they were surrounded by PCs.  Earlier this month, the two re-enacted the photo at Allen’s Living Computer Museum in Seattle.  The computers in the recent photo are even the same models.

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Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jack Dorsey Release Short Movie About The Importance Of Learning How To Program

Bill Gates (Microsoft chairman), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO), and Jack Dorsey (Twitter CEO/Square CEO) has made a short video about a nonprofit focused on making programming classes more widely available in schools.  The video promotes the non-profit Codes.org, an organization founded by Hadi Partovi.  Only a few schools offer programming classes and this organization aims to fix this issue.  
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Acknowledges Mistakes In Mobile

Microsoft Corporation chairman Bill Gates was interviewed on CBS recently to answer questions about the company.  In the interview, he acknowledged that they have made a number of mistakes in the mobile market.

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Bill Gates Does A Reddit AMA

Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates went on Reddit today to participate in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session.  He answered several questions regarding his personal life, Microsoft, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Below are some of the highlights:

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