Microsoft chairman Bill Gates may have lost $18 billion in the economic crisis, but he's still the world's richest man, according to Forbes magazine, which estimates Gates' wealth as being around 40 billion. Gates is more closely associated with computer ...

Software mogul Bill Gates announced today that his foundation will distribute more than $300 million in grants to improve teaching in public schools across the country. Gates pledged nearly one-fifth of that money to charter school operators who run dozens of schools in the Southland.

Pittsburgh Public Schools received a $40 million grant from Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Thursday.

The good news: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it's giving over $300 million to the cause of training good teachers and figuring out what makes a good teacher . The bad news: None of the money is coming to San Francisco. $290 million is being spread around to four testing ground school districts in Tampa, Pittsburgh, Memphis, and L.A., where it will be used for teacher ...

“Bill Gates” recently called a Desloge couple to announce the news that they had just won at least a million from Microsoft.

From delivering food and clean water to impoverished areas in Africa to helping find cures for diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, it's hard to argue with the fact that the Bill & Melinda Foundation has done a significant amount of good in the w.

The endowment of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is closely watched because of its value focus and close association with Warren Buffett.

Microsoft's Surface tabletop computer team has graduated from being a pet project of founder Bill Gates to a group that stands up on its own, and contributes back into other parts of Microsoft.

Even as Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda Gates, were announcing a $90 million, seven-year grant to Memphis City Schools last week, t....

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday a $335 million investment in teacher effectiveness, funding experiments in tenure, evaluation, compensation, training and mentoring in three large school systems and a cluster of charter schools.