Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's 414-foot Octopus boasts a basketball court and a commercial-quality recording studio.
Among the green billionaires are high-profile folks like Microsoft co-founders BillGatesBill Gates and Paul Allen.
Of some small consolation, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lost money pursuing the same idea of demand aggregation.
Earlier this week, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen detailed his thoughts about Windows 8 in a personal blog post.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is part of a trend in that department.
Indeed, since Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen purchased the franchise in 1997, the Sea Gals have gained much in the way of higher pay and better uniforms.
Among the best-known names of those who have signed on: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, investor Ronald Perelman, hotel magnate Barron Hilton and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
The Microsoft co-founder Wednesday touted the company's new Live Search Cashback program, which promises consumers money back when they buy certain products found on Microsoft's live.com search site.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen made waves late last month when the Wall Street Journal published a preview of his new book, Idea Man, out next week.
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Whether Microsoft co-opts Firefox's best ideas, or the Web browser continues gobbling up market share, we'll all be using Mozilla's best ideas to access those new applications soon.
The Microsoft co-founder was at Harvard Business School last week to treat an audience of students and alumni to his thoughts on the current economic and banking crisis.
The colorfully bizarre building by Frank Gehry looks like a three-dimensional cubist collage of smashed electric guitars, and is Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's eccentric gift to the city.
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.
That would bump him up to roughly 42nd place, trailing Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and maverick investor Kirk Kerkorian, but ahead of Microsoft's current chief executive, Steve Ballmer, and Fidelity's Abigail Johnson.
The idea of private space travel as the next frontier for adventurers has gained enormously popularity within the last decade, particularly after SpaceShipOne, financed by Microsoft co-founder PaulAllenPaul Allen, won the coveted Ansari X Prize in 2004.
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.
Another major milestone for the industry has been a growing interest and investment from entrepreneurs like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who financed the development of SpaceShipOne, winner of the Ansari X Prize, and British billionaire Richard Branson, founder of the space tourism company, Virgin Galactic.
Left with just two weeks to explain exactly how seven of the web's biggest properties (and three office supply chains) violated his company Interval's patents, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen figured out a plan -- Intervals' lawyers are drawing big, colored boxes around large swaths of the allegedly infringing websites' real estate.
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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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Myhrvold, who used to be the chief technology officer at Microsoft, co-founded Intellectual Ventures in 2000.
Apple and Microsoft have co-existed before, on many occasions.
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Once the last 10 yards of rail road is built, and I reckon we're looking at 2007, and we can watch our Broadband TV actually on our TV set, then that will be the point when Microsoft and co move from being complementary offers to becoming genuine competitors to Sky, NTL, and Freeview.
Microsoft sent seven lawyers to argue against just two from IW. A complication was that IW had to retain a good working relationship with Microsoft because of the co-operation it needed as a developer using Microsoft's DirectX product.
Also on Thursday's China Daily is the news that Bill Gates - co-founder of Microsoft - has confirmed that a company he helped found is co-operating on the development of a new type of nuclear reactor in China.
Sony and Microsoft said they would co-operate to develop new consumer-electronics products.
Billionaire Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, and CNN talk show host Larry King are among those who have signed on to have their genes sequenced as part of the Archon X Prize.
Former Microsoft CTO and Intellectual Ventures co-founder Nathan Myhrvold, who also spoke at EmTech about energy, said there should be a massive increase in research and development to address the daunting challenges in energy.
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Both tech entrepreneurs, Campbell was the president of QD3 Entertainment, a multi-platform media company, and formerly served as the Director of Business Development at Microsoft, while Watt previously co-founded MoviePass and NextMedium.
Billionaire Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), and CNN talk show host Larry King are among those who have signed on to have their genes sequenced as part of the Archon X Prize.
Paul Allen, the billionaire investor and co-founder of Microsoft (MSFT), is now an avowed patent troll.
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