World
Bill Gates pushes for far higher taxes on the rich
Bill Gates, the world’s second richest person, has said he wants his fellow billionaires to pay much higher taxes. Gates, 64, has a net worth of $113.7-billion.
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Investment
Bill Gates is the world’s richest person once again
This time it’s official. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates overtook Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person on Friday, reclaiming the top ranking for the first time in more than two years.
News
Gates: Microsoft would have beaten Android if not for antitrust
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says we would all be using Windows Mobile today instead of Android if an antitrust case had not been lodged against the software giant in the late 1990s.
Cloud computing
Microsoft wins $10-billion US defence contract in huge blow to Amazon
Microsoft has won the sought-after Jedi cloud computing contract with the Pentagon, dealing a blow to the market leader, Amazon.com, which had been the front-runner.
Investment
Jeff Bezos is set to lose his crown as world’s richest person
Jeff Bezos is about to relinquish the title of world’s richest person to Bill Gates, as Amazon.com shares tumbled in late trading on Thursday.
Investment
Bill Gates criticises political calls for breakup of Big Tech
Bill Gates, who knows a thing or two about antitrust investigations, doesn’t think it’s a good idea to break up the biggest US technology companies as some politicians have suggested.
World
Echo of Bill Gates as tech giants brace for antitrust showdown
US technology giants are headed for their biggest antitrust showdown with congress in 20 years as lawmakers and regulators demand to know whether companies such as Google and Facebook use their dominance to squelch innovation.
Podcasts
TalkCentral: Ep 265 – ‘Sorry, Bill, it’s all Linux now’
In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the woes at Econet Media and what they might mean for the launch of Kwese Free TV in South Africa. Plus lots more…
Consumer electronics
Gates says Jobs cast ‘spells’ to keep Apple from dying
Apple’s Steve Jobs was singular in his ability to take a company “on a path to die” and turn it into the world’s most valuable – in part by “casting spells”, billionaire Bill Gates said.
News
Bill Gates laments losing to Android
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has said his “greatest mistake ever” was allowing Google’s Android, rather than his own company’s software, to become the world’s biggest mobile operating system.
