Browsing: Melinda Gates

Bill Gates thinks toilets are a serious business, and he’s betting big that a reinvention of this most essential of conveniences can save a half million lives and deliver $200-billion-plus in savings.

Bill Gates has made his largest gift since the turn of the century, giving away Microsoft shares that accounted for 5% of his fortune, the world’s biggest. The billionaire donated 64m of the software maker’s shares valued at $4.6bn