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Meet Impossible Foods, another VC-backed veggie meat startup
There are a lot of new plant meat innovations out there. But this one has created "plant blood," was founded by a Stanford biochemist and has raised $75 million from VCs.…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Satya Nadella: I’m in charge
Microsoft co-founder and former chairman Bill Gates is a high-profile and valued advisor, but advising is all he's doing, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.…
Read More7 takeaways from Bill Gates’ Rolling Stone interview
The Microsoft co-founder follows in the footsteps of John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and other luminaries to be the latest subject of the Rolling Stone interview.…
Read MoreAcademic social network ResearchGate aids debunking of stem cell study
Berlin-based ResearchGate, in which Bill Gates is a prominent investor, provided a platform for study results that led to highly embarrassing backpedaling from a Japanese research institute.…
Read MoreBill Gates’ Ask Me Anything: the highlight reel
Brave man: Bill Gates showed up on Reddit's Ask Me Anything Monday morning. Here are some takeaways.…
Read MoreReport: Huge Microsoft shakeup coming. Gates might give up chairmanship, Nadella in as CEO
Blockbuster news if true: the Microsoft co-founder could end up stepping down as chairman and Nadella gets nod for CEO.…
Read More2014 could be a big year for next-gen batteries
Look for the next generation of batteries, particularly for the power grid, to come out this year from some interesting startups.…
Read MoreAWS gets respect but also fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Hundreds of Amazon partners came to the desert to bask in the reflected glow of the cloud giant. Publicly, they love AWS; privately they worry that it'll end up eating their lunch.…
Read MoreMicrosoft meeting in a nutshell: Gates cried and directors got re-elected
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates got a little emotional discussing the contributions of out-going CEO Steve Ballmer at Tuesday's shareholder meeting.…
Read MoreWhy Bill Gates doesn’t fear internet “balkanization”
"The forces of unification are stronger" than those trying to fragment the internet, the former Microsoft chief said in Berlin on Wednesday.…
Read MoreEos Energy to soon crank out zinc-air batteries
Next-gen, low cost power grid batteries are emerging to help make the power grid more efficient, cleaner and more resilient. Eos Energy is the latest startup to begin the move to crank up manufacturing.…
Read MoreAmbri launches its first factory to make liquid metal batteries
A Bill Gates and Khosla-backed battery startup, Ambri, has reached an important milestone: it's opened up its first small scale factory.…
Read MoreApple Q4, Gates disses Zuckerberg, Mayer’s Cultural Revolution, and Chautauqua
Apple Q4 and looking ahead to 2014 Apple met its own estimates and analyst expectations posting record numbers on Monday for the…
Read MoreBill Gates goes nuclear in Idaho
Bill Gates, along with the staff of nuclear startup TerraPower, visited the U.S. government-owned Idaho National Labs this week to check out…
Read MoreBill Gates, Khosla put up $100M for Kior’s next plant project
Struggling next-gen biofuel company Kior now has funding commitments from Bill Gates for its plant expansion.…
Read MoreHey Microsoft: Pick a CEO already and get on with it
The longer the CEO transition takes, the more unfocused and unproductive Microsoft gets, according to insiders. Look for Microsoft to make its move just after the Q1 earnings call.…
Read MoreShocker: Anonymous Microsoft investors want to give Bill Gates the boot
Folks may have been thinking about it for awhile, but now some apparently are saying it aloud -- they want to push Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates out as chairman.…
Read MoreBill Gates backs power grid networking startup Varentec
A startup building smart networking tech for the power grid has gotten an investment from Bill Gates.…
Read MoreStartup SustainX brings a big next-gen air battery online
A new way to compress air and use it as a form of energy storage is getting ever closer to the mainstream with startup SustainX. The tech could be important to pair with solar and wind farms.…
Read MoreMicrosoft flashbacks show what could have been
Voice-controlled software; content synced across devices; location-aware applications; tablets -- Microsoft was touting all these things in 2000. So what happened?…
Read MoreIn defense of Steve Ballmer
Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is too loud, too bombastic, too sales-y, blah blah blah. He also built one of the world's most profitable and efficient sales and channel organizations. So there.…
Read MoreMicrosoft buys Nokia Devices and Services, Elop is EVP of Devices
Microsoft has announced that it will be buying Nokia’s devices and services business a various patents for $7.17 billion, and that CEO…
Read MoreValueAct Capital gets a seat on Microsoft’s board: Now what?
Amid the extremely wide and thin reporting on activist investor Mason Morfit’s joining Microsoft’s board, there is surprisingly little information. What we…
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