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US immigration restrictions introduced over the weekend are bringing the technology industry together in unified anger like never before. While the clampdown isn’t an immediate threat to businesses, emotions

Artificial intelligence is still in a “mainframe era” in which computing power is concentrated in a few companies’ hands, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a presentation in Munich on Monday. The computer industry is “worshipping”

On one end of the phone, there was Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, who has pledged a good chunk of his fortune to ending climate change. On the other end of the line, there was President-elect Donald Trump, who has described

Bill Gates and more than a dozen of the world’s wealthiest individuals revealed a new, US$1bn investment fund late on Sunday to foster major advances in clean energy production. Dubbed Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the 20-year fund

Technology billionaires are making a run for the top of the global wealth rankings as surges for Facebook, Amazon.com and Google parent Alphabet added US$5,6bn to their founders’ fortunes this week. Google co-founders

Jeff Bezos just snuck past Warren Buffett to become the third richest person on Earth. The Amazon.com founder’s net worth was US$65,05bn on Thursday (R923bn at the time of writing), topping Buffett by $32m on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he’s enthusiastic about the company’s US$26,2bn acquisition of LinkedIn, viewing it as an opportunity to build a business network for the working world like Facebook has created for

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will deliver the 14th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on 17 July, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the University of Pretoria announced on Tuesday. Gates, 60, who co-chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will

According to the latest ranking of the world’s richest people, published on Wednesday, Bill Gates still tops the list with a fortune of $75bn, while the net worth of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has leapt higher in the past year