Gates Pledges $10B For Vaccines The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said today that it is pledging $10 billion to foster more work on research, development, and delivery of vaccines over ... Gates Foundation To Benefit From Berkshire Hathaway Joining S&P 500 That's The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As this GuruFocus data show, Berkshire represented about 53.4 percent of the Gates Foundation's more than $10 ... Bill Gates Discovers Twitter Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is dedicated to eradicating malaria and other diseases from poor countries. Twitter is awash in fake Bill Gates pages, as well as bogus accounts for numerous other celebrities. But Gates' new page carries Twitter's "Verified Account" stamp, indicating its authenticity. Gates is building up a fast following on Twitter. As of early Wednesday, the mogul had more than 178,000 followers. As for those he is following, Gates appears to look to a wide variety of sources for inspiration and information. Among the 40 Twitter accounts Gates is tracking is, not surprisingly, Microsoft. He's also following the MalariaNoMore c... Online Learning Gets High Praise From Bill Gates In hiss 2010 annual letter, recently posted to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website, Bill Gates makes a pretty strong case for ... Bill Gates says Internet needs to thrive in China - Reuters ... remains the company's chairman but tends to focus his attention on the philanthropic activities of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which he runs ... YONHAP NEWS The South Korean leader will also have a 20-minute meeting with Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for informal discussions on the global economic condition and the potential of South Korea as one of the world's most wired countries.   Lee will then head back to Seoul later in the day, ending a three-day stay in Switzerland packed with hectic schedules, including a meeting with FIFA President Sepp Blatter to solicit his backing for South Korea's bid to host the 2022 World Cup finals and participation in the annual conference of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.   In a special address for political...

Bill Gates joins Twitter, tweeting on 'cool things' in philanthropy In fact, you can get a thorough update on these "cool things" from his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation annual letter, which was just published on Jan. 25. ...

Bill Gates urges Silvio Berlusconi to put aid before beauty In an annual report issued on Monday by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Italy's aid was listed in 2008 at 0.21% of GDP, compared withthe UK's 0.48%. ...

Bill Gates launches Gates Notes to share his thoughts So far, the site has information about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, epidemic preparedness, relief for Haiti and climate change. ...