Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett are asking the nation’s billionaires to pledge to give at least half their net worth to charity, in their lifetimes or at death. If their campaign succeeds, it could change the face of philanthropy. Here’s Fortune with the report: Gates and Buffett started what can be called the [...]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $1.5 billion on Monday in a joint push with the United Nations to improve the health of women and children, while launching a lobbying effort to get governments and other non-profit groups on board. Here’s the official release we received from the Gates Foundation: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Melinda [...]

What a difference 10 years makes. Apple’s surpassing Microsoft in market capitalization Wednesday very much embodied the sour spirit of the Redmond company’s week, and the struggles within its Entertainment and Devices Division. Apple’s stock market capitalization (AAPL) has not yet quite surpassed Microsoft’s (MSFT), but the value of its actual business is now higher. [...]

Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are pledging $10 billion to develop and deliver vaccines to children all over the world. Bill and Melinda Gates said on Friday they would spend $10 billion over the next decade to develop and deliver vaccines, an increased commitment that reflects progress in the pipeline of products for immunizing [...]

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation isn’t afraid to offer grants to ‘different’ approaches toward science research. Once only an eccentric but respected professor could command funding for “out-there” projects as novel as chewing gum that can detect malaria or an electronic nose to smell tuberculosis. But a growing number of young scientists, armed with [...]