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Ray Ozzie, who took over for Gates in 2006 as Microsoft's chief software architect, drops a few hints about new tech company Cocomo. Ray Ozzie, aka Bill Gates' handpicked successor as Microsoft's chief software architect, has a new start-up.

Ray Ozzie, who took over for Gates in 2006 as Microsoft's chief software architect, drops a few hints about new tech company Cocomo. Ray Ozzie, aka Bill Gates' handpicked successor as Microsoft's chief software architect, has a new start-up

Ray Ozzie, who took over for Gates in 2006 as Microsoft's chief software architect, drops a few hints about new tech company Cocomo. Ray Ozzie, aka Bill Gates' handpicked successor as Microsoft's chief software architect, has a new start-up

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming up with Beijing to fund a series of revolutionary agricultural and biotech initiatives. China might be using Gates to further its economic imperialism. But maybe that's not such a bad thing

The Gates Foundation is bringing stronger, hardier versions of staple crops to the developing world. Do the good motives outweigh the issues with GM food

You can't dump on this idea: A new $40 million initiative by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will help develop futuristic toilets that transform human waste into usable electricity and fuel. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced on Tuesday that they are giving away more than $42 million to develop new, innovative toilets for use in the world's poorest regions

LINDAU, Germany--Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates thrilled a crowd of 566 young researchers from 77 countries gathered here June 26 for opening ceremony of the 61st Meeting of Nobel Laureates, and he wasted no time in telling them what to do.

I think it's possible. However even more possible, I think, is that a Steve Ballmer departure is inevitable. Last year, I wrote a posting on this blog (tongue in cheek at the time) entitled "Why I want Bill Gates Back"

A new set of $100,000 grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a range of mobile phone applications in an effort to improve global health. The latest projects funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation could turn smartphones into superphones that are part doctor, part secretary, part Orkin man. The Gates' Grand Challenges Exploration has previously given $100,000 grants to early-stage research focused on urgent health problems and come up with some amazing ideas for treatment .

As states scramble to understand new educational standards, Gates eyes an opening for video games. Around the country, a new career-minded education standard is slowly edging out the old academic focus on Lord Of the Flies book summaries and five-paragraph essays. So far 42 states have pledged to adopt the (coercively) voluntary standards championed by President Obama, the National Governors Association, and billionaire education crusader, Bill Gates

01 / NYU For opening up a second campus in Abu Dhabi. There, NYU is shepherding the most successful and ambitious attempt yet to export overseas a full-fledged American liberal arts university.

On October 1, 2009, in Bryn Mawr, Pa., a wrecking crew arrived at the gates of a Mediterranean palazzo with Gothic windows and a massive swallowtail battlement that would have been more appropriately perched on a promontory above the Grand Harbour in Malta than nestled on this suburban parcel. But ...