And then India's Namita Unni-krishnan and others will worry about Bill Gates and Microsoft.
Part of it, of course, is simply that Bill Gates and Microsoft are newsworthy in and of themselves.
Everyone from Steve Jobs (Apple), Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Michael Dell (Dell) in the industry's first generation to Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google) in the current one has so far complied.
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For those interested in the charitable works of the very rich, the new Forbes 400 issue has several important stories, including a conversation on wealth and responsibility between Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and a profile of George Kaiser, the publicity-shy Oklahoma oilman who is trying to help poor kids in own back yard.
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Hollywood moguls Barry Diller and David Geffen dropped out of UCLA and the University of Texas, respectively, while Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg never completed their studies at Harvard.
Bill Gates , founder and chairman of Microsoft , continues to try to assure that he lands a place in the broadband world.
Do the right thing for America-let dollars sprint from old assets to new ones at the speed of light. n Bill Gates, chairman and CEO of Microsoft: Don't let the bozos get you down. n Jim Barksdale, CEO of Netscape: Be kind to yourself in your Mississippi retirement years.
Thirty-eight US billionaires have pledged at least 50% of their wealth to charity through a campaign started by investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Shares in the company, which operates car dealerships, surged late in the month on news that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and private equity investor Edward Lampert had increased their positions in AutoNation.
Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and software boss, regards this interface crisis as one of the biggest challenges for his firm, alongside the security holes in Windows and, perhaps, the threat from Linux, an open-source operating system.
But lest we become entirely cynical, it is worth noting that our industry (and the world at large) also has many examples of leaders whose high rank and access to female company has not led them to step over the line: I give you Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Apple founder Steve Jobs, both devoted family men.
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Members reportedly include Microsoft head Bill Gates, and Formula One champion Alain Prost .
One of the knocks on Jobs was that he never contributed much of his considerable fortune, or celebrity, to charity -- at least not in the public ways other tech titans like Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg have.
The cast in the film includes: Partovi, Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat, Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Drew Houston of Dropbox, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, Gabe Newell of Valve, Ruchi Sanghvi of Dropbox, will.i.am, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.
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And of course, Sean Fanning, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates who all equally revolutionized technology with their businesses Napster, Facebook, and Microsoft.
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates were approached by a family representative to gauge their interest.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor Tony Blair.
Gates (father of Microsoft founder Bill) and 89-year-old Charles T.
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The issue gained worldwide attention in September, when Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett travelled to China to persuade the super-rich there to donate more of their money to worthy causes.
The district, which encompasses some of the most affluent areas in the state (it's home to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos), is the type of place where House Democrats have made inroads in recent years.
The big news this week amongst the 50 international billionaires whose wealth Forbes tracks in real time was that Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates officially overtook Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim Helu as the richest man on the planet.
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In press interviews following his ruling, the judge was quoted as speaking harshly about Microsoft and its chairman, Bill Gates .
Wednesday's address marked the energetic Ballmer's debut as CES keynote pitchman, a job that had been handled for the past decade by Microsoft chairman and industry pioneer Bill Gates.
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It is Bill Gates, the co-founder and former chief executive of Microsoft Corp.
One could say the same for Microsoft when Bill Gates viewed himself as the visionary and Steve Ballmer was the operator.
The technology echoed the demo given by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in his Sunday keynote, and the audience seemed impressed on both occasions.
Mr. Ghonim's Facebook profile, which he updated often, lists Mr. ElBaradei as someone he admires along with Microsoft founder Bill Gates, billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Apple founder Steve Jobs.
For many years, as Microsoft grew, Bill Gates eschewed public relations and politics as tawdry activities unbecoming of a pure entrepreneur only to find himself up to his eyeballs in government law suits.
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