Bill Gates

May 04, 2021

Bill and Melinda Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage

The divorce filing, which states that the couple have no minor children, comes after the youngest of their three children is believed to have recently turned 18.

February 17, 2021
Manufacturing could challenge climate goals, warns Bill Gates

Manufacturing, especially in the cheap construction staples steel and cement, accounts for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.
January 17, 2021
Bill Gates is America's biggest farmland owner

Bill and Melinda Gates amassed 242,000 acres of land in the US, with the largest holdings in Louisiana (69,071 acres), Arkansas (47,927 acres) and Nebraska (20,588 acres), according to The Land report.
November 20, 2020
Bill Gates says summer of 2021 will be almost normal

Two vaccines, one each from Pfizer and Moderna, have already turned up more than 90 per cent efficacy results and are moving fast towards applying for emergency use approval.
July 16, 2020
Twitter accounts of Obama, Gates and others hacked in Bitcoin scam

The ruse included bogus tweets from former President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a number of tech billionaires including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
May 24, 2020
As millions lose jobs, US billionaires get richer by $434bn during the pandemic

The top five US billionaires - Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett and Oracle's Larry Ellison - saw their wealth grow by a total of $75.5 billion, or 19 per cent.
November 16, 2019
Bloomberg Billionaires: Bill Gates regains lead, Ambani 14th richest in the world

Jeff Bezos had ended Bill Gates' 24-year run as the richest man in 2018 with a net worth of $160 billion.

Bill Gates

Bill and Melinda Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage

Manufacturing could challenge climate goals, warns Bill Gates

Bill Gates is America's biggest farmland owner

Bill Gates says summer of 2021 will be almost normal

Twitter accounts of Obama, Gates and others hacked in Bitcoin scam

As millions lose jobs, US billionaires get richer by $434bn during the pandemic

Bloomberg Billionaires: Bill Gates regains lead, Ambani 14th richest in the world

Jeff Bezos loses world's richest man title to Bill Gates

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation honours Modi, staff quits in protest

Warren Buffett donates $3.6 bn to Gates' and family charities