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Bloomberg:
Bill Gates Retakes World's Richest Title From Carlos Slim   —  Bill Gates became the world's richest person today, the first time he has held the title since 2007.  His fortune was valued at $72.7 billion at 4 p.m. in New York, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
May 16, 2013, 6:05 PMIn context
CBS News:
Bill Gates on Steve Jobs: We grew up together   —  We've seen plenty of Bill Gates on television, but we'd never seen him get emotional before.  It was a striking, yet subtle moment in Gates' 60 Minutes interview this week when Charlie Rose asked him about his longtime business rival, the late Steve Jobs.
May 13, 2013, 1:05 AMIn context
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
BILL GATES ON THE IPAD: ‘A Lot Of Those Users Are Frustrated’   —  Bill Gates took a shot at the iPad while explaining Microsoft's rationale for the Surface this morning on CNBC.  —  He was asked about the declining PC market.  He said that tablets are growing in popularity, and it's …
May 6, 2013, 2:10 PMIn context
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Please Welcome Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Brad Smith and Sean Parker to the ZuckerPAC   —  Mr. Zuckerberg isn't the only tech titan scaling Capitol Hill this year — he brought friends.  —  The Facebook CEO adds a few more impressive names to the roster of his D.C. political advocacy group on Friday …
Apr 26, 2013, 9:45 AMIn context
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Bill Gates and Paul Allen reprise classic Microsoft photo, three decades later   —  The photo above is a Microsoft classic, showing the company's founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, surrounded by personal computers in 1981.  Fast forward 32 years, and check out the picture below …
Apr 4, 2013, 10:40 AMIn context
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Henry Blodget Is Quietly Planning a Stunning Return to Wall Street   —  Kind of!  —  Business Insider's co-founder and editor is the subject of a Ken Auletta profile in this week's New Yorker, which means Henry Blodget is now in some rarefied media mogul air (see: Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, etc.)
Apr 1, 2013, 9:50 AMIn context
Frank Catalano / GeekWire:
Bill Gates at SXSWedu: The future of education is data   —  Bill Gates at the SXSWedu conference.  Photos via Brandon Phenix.  —  If there was a single nerdy subtext that Bill Gates brought to his closing keynote at the SXSWedu conference in Austin, it was the importance of data.  —  Useful data.
Mar 8, 2013, 10:05 AMIn context
Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits:
Gates, Zuckerberg, Other Tech Icons Promote Youth Coding in New Film   —  A new nonprofit seeking to rally interest among children, parents and schools in computer programming is getting help from some big guns in the tech industry, including the founders of Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter.
Feb 26, 2013, 11:45 AMIn context
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Bill Gates calls for more innovation at Microsoft after mobile ‘mistake’   —  In an interview with CBS This Morning, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has admitted that the software giant didn't nail the mobile market when it had the opportunity.  “There's a lot of things like cellphones …
Feb 18, 2013, 1:25 PMIn context
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Bill Gates hits Reddit for an AMA, replies using 80-inch Windows 8 tablet   —  Microsoft chairman Bill Gates took to Reddit today for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session.  After describing Windows 8 as a “huge advance,” Gates also revealed he has “tried all of Apple [sic] products.”
Feb 11, 2013, 4:01 PMIn context

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Windows 8 Tips  —  Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry?  Come on in!  —  Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project.  It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API  —  The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR  —  Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review.  Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).