Following the stir created by ex-Microsoft executive Dick Brass, who recently claimed the company had become an "uncompetitive innovator," attention has returned to internal e-mails that were made public during an antitrust lawsuit several years ago. The legal blog Groklaw has sifted through many of the documents, uncovering a message from 2003 showing Bill Gates' praise for Steve Jobs and ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $10 billion to fight childhood vaccines comes with a challenge for wealthy countries to do more.

Robert Gates walks from the 15th tee at The Hills Golf Club in Queenstown, New Zealand, during Round 3 of the New Zealand Open.

Bedfellows were never more strange than those assembling this week in Long Beach, California, for the annual Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference: Director James Cameron, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former covert CIA analyst Valerie Plame are among the eclectic mix of speakers.

ST. PAUL - State Democrats burst out of the gates with twin $1 billion bonding bills on the first day of the legislative session, including funding for an innovative mining engineering program at Mesabi Range Community and Technical College and other projects on the Range.

Groklaw uncovers a couple of e-mails from Bill Gates and then-Windows leader Jim Allchin revealing that Microsoft was worried about iTunes when it first launched.

by Susan Crabtree Two Democrats signed on to a Republican bill that would prevent any funds from being spent on prosecuting Guantánamo Bay suspects in U.S. federal court. Reps. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.) and Mike McMahon (D-N.Y.) last week joined Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) and 16 other Republicans in sponsoring the legislation, which would deny the Justice Department any funds for trying Khalid Sheikh ...

Two Democrats signed on to a Republican bill that would prevent funds from being spent on prosecuting Guantánamo Bay suspects. Read more...

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PORTLAND, ME--(Marketwire - February 9, 2010) - EnviroLogix Inc., a company that develops and manufactures rapid, on-site and lab-based agricultural diagnostics, and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO, the world's largest nonprofit research institute focused on plant science, announced that they will collaborate to support one of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand ...