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    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
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      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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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’

    • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
      Coronavirus pandemic
      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

    • Monday, 25 April, 2022
      Gates-backed company accused of firing whistleblowers

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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
      Bill and Melinda Gates to end marriage after 27 years

      Couple say they will continue to work together at their charitable foundation

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