While the courtroom laughter was played high in most accounts, with News.com reporting that even Microsoft's lawyers were chuckling at the videotaped cat-and-mouse game, ZD's court story surprisingly recounted Gates's testimony without recounting the apparent courtroom disbelief.
Can the biggest private foundation in the world, now channelling Mr Buffett's fortune as well as Mr Gates's, really be so impotent?
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One small proviso: the advantages of keeping your distance will come only if your hunches are as good as Mr Buffett's, your software as dominant as Mr Gates's or your films as popular as Mr Lucas's.
BBC's poor cousin is now hanging on to Bill Gates's coat-tails.
The notion that cars must form the centre of every industrial economy looks pretty quaint given that the combined market value of Detroit's Big Three is dwarfed by that of Bill Gates's Microsoft.
Jobs and Gates's lessons to managers aren't about being cruel to be kind or successful.
Well, first, consider whether Robert Gates's arrival is really a repudiation of the so-called neoconservative vision.
Which is, in a sense, what the police are saying in professor Gates's case.
Gates's endorsement was the topper to a relatively successful two weeks for the government's IT hopes.
But if Gates's words to Newsweek are any indication, all of this may be about to change.
Mr. Gates's flagship project is the Washington Park Arts Incubator, scheduled to open this fall on Chicago's South Side.
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Bill Gates's company makes money by selling intellectual property, jealously guarding its programs' source code and fighting software piracy.
Goldberg centered on then-secretary of defense Robert Gates's angry statement to his colleagues in the wake of Netanyahu's visit.
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Mr. Gates's lesson to managers was more along the lines of innovate, work hard and trust the customer through open systems.
During Mr Gates's last visit to Beijing, his hosts agreed to set up a hotline between the Pentagon and China's defence ministry.
Rumors that Bill Gates's Microsoft would locate in the corridor proved premature.
Gates's successor at the Pentagon will be outgoing CIA Director Leon Panetta.
IR Mr Gates's arguments may also be applied to the electricity utility business.
Mr Gates's focus on poor-country diseases increases the chances of making the breakthroughs in medicine and delivery systems necessary to beating those illnesses.
Gates's attempt to mitigate the story's impact by claiming that actually, the White House is weighing all its option only made things worse.
This is the sort of thorny problem that requires brains as well as money and the second reason why Mr Gates's donation is so interesting.
Bob Gates's decision to prematurely retire General David McKiernan as the senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan solidifies the Defense Secretary's reputation as firer in chief.
The 2006 QDR already foresaw that America had to deal with a range of crises, and Mr Gates's review only tinkers with America's military structure.
Mr Gates's membership of the much-heralded Iraq Study Group means that he will have a vested interest in getting the report accepted and acted on.
Goldberg failed to mention that Gates's record has been consistently anti-Israel.
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Their first stop was Germany, specifically Gates's Huguenot House in Kassel.
In contrast, studies of Mr. Gates's leadership style suggest he followed a much more traditional path: He tried to meet the needs of consumers, not create them.
Despite Bill Gates's declaration in 2004 that spam would soon be a thing of the past, it is clearly a vast problem that is not going away.
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