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The death of Steve Jobs has, and will continue to dominate the blogospheres and news feeds for several days to come—and rightly so. Few people have had such a significant and measureable impact on ...

Here is a look at the life of Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft. Personal Birth date: October 28, 1955 Birth place: Seattle, Washington Birth name: William Henry Gates III Father: William Henry ...

NEW YORK - In a memoir out next month, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen details tensions in his relationship with Bill Gates, including a scene from 1982, when he overheard Gates talking to ...

Microsoft was shaped by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella over the course of the last half-century in the male-dominated tech world. Friends since childhood in Seattle, Gates and ...

In 1980, Bill Gates made a decision that would shape the future of Microsoft—offering Steve Ballmer a small stake in his company. At the time, it was just 4% of the company. Decades later, that same 4 ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos believes that Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are exceptions to the idea that dropping out of college leads to entrepreneurial success.

Some of Big Tech’s greatest success stories are from college dropouts. Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004 from his ...