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Tag: Bill Gates

President Trump to host Apple CEO Tim Cook, other tech CEOs for first event in newly renovated Rose Garden

Thursday, September 4, 2025 9:08 amThursday, September 4, 20252 Comments

U.S. President Donald Trump will host a dinner to be attended by Apple CEO Tim Cook and over two dozen technology and business leaders…

Bill Gates: ‘We’re going to have a hung election and a civil war’

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 10:46 amTuesday, September 27, 202240 Comments

Bill Gates is worried about domestic polarization in America, causing him to seemingly predict a “hung election” and “civil war” …

Had Microsoft not sold its $150 million in Apple stock, it’d be worth over $120 billion today

Monday, September 19, 2022 10:00 am3 Comments

Nearly 20 years ago, Microsoft sold its Apple Stock for $550 million, leaving some $120 billion on the table…

Microsoft directors decided Bill Gates needed to leave due to affair with employee

Monday, May 17, 2021 3:35 pmMonday, May 17, 202110 Comments

Microsoft board members decided that Bill Gates needed to step down from its board in 2020 as they investigated into a relationship with a…

Bill Gates and Melinda Gates to divorce after 27 years

Monday, May 3, 2021 4:56 pmMonday, May 3, 202135 Comments

Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, famous for becoming the world’s richest man by creating an insecure upside-down fake Mac…

Twitter hacker who targeted Apple, Elon Musk, others gets three years in prison

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 4:53 pm4 Comments

The Tampa Bay teenage hacker who took control of several well-known Twitter accounts — Apple, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Bill Gates…

Bill Gates: We’re lucky COVID-19 wasn’t a more fatal disease

Thursday, August 13, 2020 12:52 pmThursday, August 13, 202018 Comments

Bill Gates says he’s optimistic about the chances of seeing through the wilder theories from anti-vaxxers and others and of beating COVID-19…

The Gates Foundation bought 500,000 Apple shares in Q1

Tuesday, May 26, 2020 10:01 amTuesday, May 26, 202027 Comments

The Gates Foundation picked up a cool 501,044 Apple shares in the first calendar quarter of 2020. Apple shares are currently the all-time high…

Sun Valley ‘summer camp for billionaires’ canceled due to COVID-19

Friday, May 8, 2020 12:53 pmFriday, May 8, 20204 Comments

The 2020 Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, with attendees like Tim Cook and Warren Buffett, among many others, has been an epicenter for large…

Bill Gates: Getting a COVID-19 vaccine by 2H21 would be ‘history-making achievement’

Thursday, April 23, 2020 4:37 pm68 Comments

Getting a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine by second half 2021 would be “history-making achievement,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says…

Bill Gates: Steve Jobs was a ‘wizard’ who ‘cast spells on people’

Thursday, July 18, 2019 12:02 pmThursday, July 18, 201911 Comments

Gates revealed that he has never met a person who rivaled Jobs’ ability for…

Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, dead at 65

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 10:25 amTuesday, October 16, 201812 Comments

Paul Allen, the fiercely private Microsoft co-founder known as much for his love of sports…

Microsoft buys GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock

Monday, June 4, 2018 11:34 am12 Comments

Microsoft Corp. said it reached an agreement to buy GitHub Inc., the code repository company popular…

Bill Gates: Apple is an ‘amazing’ company with best profit potential in tech

Monday, May 7, 2018 9:55 amMonday, May 7, 201813 Comments

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates backed Warren Buffett’s decision to up his stake in Apple…

Bill Gates backs plan to cover earth in video surveillance satellites

Thursday, April 19, 2018 5:00 pm26 Comments

“Live and unfiltered” coverage of the Earth has been backed by former Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates…

A test used by NASA assessed top leaders, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Trump

Friday, February 23, 2018 9:46 amFriday, February 23, 201849 Comments

Ever wanted to get inside the heads of the world’s top leaders?

Steve Jobs: These are 2 essential ingredients for success

Wednesday, November 15, 2017 4:28 pmWednesday, November 15, 201711 Comments

Steve Jobs is an entrepreneurial legend…

How big is Apple? Gold? Bitcoin? This one chart puts it all in perspective

Thursday, June 22, 2017 10:28 am4 Comments

Bitcoin burst into our financial consciousness like a fiery comet…

Bill Gates tells banned his kids from having mobile phones until they turned 14

Friday, April 21, 2017 2:30 pm19 Comments

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, says that he did not permit his children…

Bill Gates wants to tax ‘job-killing’ robots

Monday, March 27, 2017 2:25 pmMonday, March 27, 201759 Comments

This is the dumbest idea since Messrs. Smoot and Hawley rampaged through the U.S. Capitol in 1930…

Bill Gates says President Trump could be like John F. Kennedy

Thursday, December 15, 2016 10:24 am64 Comments

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates met with President-elect Trump at Trump Tower…

President-elect Trump says Apple CEO Tim Cook called him after election victory

Tuesday, November 22, 2016 5:34 pmTuesday, November 22, 201661 Comments

Live tweeting from a meeting with president-elect Trump today…

Apple’s first 40 years: An oral history from insiders; Spoiler: Bill Gates had a bigger role in Apple’s success than even he may know

Friday, April 1, 2016 4:25 pmFriday, April 1, 201612 Comments

Four decades after Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak set out to turn computers into a tool that anyone could use…

Apple demands delay in NY iPhone case: Company wants to test FBI hack in San Bernardino terrorist iPhone case

Monday, March 28, 2016 4:55 pmMonday, March 28, 201616 Comments

Apple last week asked a federal magistrate in New York to extend a court filing deadline…

Ex-Apple CEO Sculley: FBI relying on hackers is fair

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 7:10 pmTuesday, March 22, 201612 Comments

Technology and social media companies recently joined Apple Inc. to fight the battle of will with the FBI…

Apple gets short-term win over Big Brother; issue deferred, not resolved

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 12:01 pmTuesday, March 22, 201613 Comments

Less than 24 hours before a highly anticipated Tuesday court session where prosecutors and Apple lawyers…

FBI could be using these hacks to break into killer’s iPhone

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 10:55 amTuesday, March 22, 201614 Comments

There are a number of ways the FBI could be attempting to hack into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino killer…

FBI says it may have found method to unlock San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone

Monday, March 21, 2016 8:19 pmMonday, March 21, 201666 Comments

The Justice Department said on Monday that it might no longer need Apple’s assistance to help open an iPhone…

Countdown to doomsday: Apple, FBI face off in court Tuesday

Saturday, March 19, 2016 10:55 am30 Comments

If you’ve been reading the headlines about Apple’s fight with the FBI, you know it’s easy to assume…

Apple sees weakness in FBI’s last-minute hearing request

Friday, March 18, 2016 2:58 pmFriday, March 18, 201618 Comments

A last-minute request by the FBI to call witnesses to next week’s court hearing in the San Bernardino iPhone case…

The FBI has a big ulterior motive in its war against privacy and Apple’s encrypted iPhone

Friday, March 18, 2016 9:32 amFriday, March 18, 201638 Comments

When a public interest group wants to create new legal precedent, its first step is to find…

The law is clear: The FBI cannot make Apple rewrite iOS

Friday, March 18, 2016 9:00 amFriday, March 18, 201656 Comments

No gaps; no interpretive sunlight: this statute stops the government from doing what it wants to do to Apple…

Apple engineers, if ordered to unlock iPhone, might resist

Thursday, March 17, 2016 9:57 pmThursday, March 17, 201665 Comments

If the F.B.I. wins its court fight to force Apple’s help in unlocking an iPhone, the agency may…

Apple’s Tim Cook on FBI fight: ‘No one’s going dark’

Thursday, March 17, 2016 3:56 pmThursday, March 17, 201619 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook makes his case for why his company doesn’t want to help the FBI unlock San Bernardino killer…

Harvard Law professor and former Obama special assistant dismisses FBI’s claims

Thursday, March 17, 2016 2:28 pmThursday, March 17, 201632 Comments

Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford and former special assistant to President Obama…

Inside Apple CEO Tim Cook’s fight against government overreach

Thursday, March 17, 2016 10:58 amThursday, March 17, 201616 Comments

We didn’t hear anything for a few days…

How the U.S. government’s War on Privacy provoked a backlash

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:25 pm28 Comments

The FBI’s underhand attempt to get a judge to order Apple to make iPhones less secure is largely backfiring…

Apple: ‘Government misunderstands the technology’ involved in demanding they decrypt an iPhone

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 11:29 amWednesday, March 16, 201618 Comments

Last week, the FBI had filed with the court, describing Apple’s court-borne resistance…

Apple: The FBI’s demand is unconstitutional

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:26 amWednesday, March 16, 201643 Comments

Apple shouldn’t have to comply with a search order for an iPhone used by one the San Bernardino, California…

Apple says U.S. ‘Founders would be appalled’ by DOJ order

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 8:28 amWednesday, March 16, 201638 Comments

Apple Inc. charged Tuesday that a court order forcing the tech giant to assist the federal government…

Donald Trump’s trade rhetoric splits GOP and makes traditional economists quake

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 4:15 pmTuesday, March 15, 201665 Comments

With his threats to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, rip up trade deals and force companies such as Apple…

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham finally talks to tech experts, switches side to Apple vs. FBI

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 3:29 pmTuesday, March 15, 201627 Comments

On February 18th, Senator Lindsey Graham had this to say about the FBI v. Apple court battle…

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