Bill Gates credits his mother, Mary Gates, for playing a crucial role in securing a pivotal contract with IBM that set the ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has fallen to 12th place in wealth rankings after reducing his fortune from $175 billion to ...

Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft and one of the wealthiest men in the world. Gates was a software genius who dropped out of Harvard to launch a wildly successful career in tech. He now ...

The billionaire Microsoft cofounder was succeeded as CEO by Steve Ballmer, who led the company from 2000 to 2014.. Gates wrote in his his memoir, "Source Code," which came out last month, that he ...

Bill Gates is reflecting on Microsoft's 50th anniversary — and sharing the company's original source code (as well as the story behind it) ... (L-R) Paul Allen and Bill Gates in 1984.

Microsoft co-founder and one of the world’s most prominent tech visionaries, Bill Gates, is turning his attention toward a new type of technology.In an interview with CNBC, Gates said that if he ...

Bill Gates tends to look towards the future. In the early 1970s, he envisioned a future of mass personal computing. Today, his work revolves around other initiatives, such as the future of global ...

Microsoft, which turns 50 years old today (April 5), started off with a lie. In 1975, the 20-year-old Gates and 22-year-old Allen approached MITS, the electronics company behind Altair 8800, and ...

In January 1975, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen read an article in the magazine Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800 home computer by a small company named MITS.

Fueled by Microsoft’s soaring stock price and dividends, Bill and Melinda have already poured a combined $60.2 billion into the Gates Foundation since its founding in 2000, helping cement their ...