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Katie Fehrenbacher Oct 21, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Startup Aquion Energy shows off the next generation of its battery for solar and the grid

Startup Aquion Energy was one of the first of its competitors to get a factory up and running. Now it's producing the second generation of its battery.…

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Science & Energy
Katie Fehrenbacher Oct 8, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

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.…

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Science & Energy
Barb Darrow May 28, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Microsoft’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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Mobile, Technology
Barb Darrow Mar 14, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

7 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
David Meyer Mar 14, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Academic 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.…

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Europe, Technology
Barb Darrow Feb 10, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Bill 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.…

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Cleantech, Cloud & Infrastructure, Mobile, Science & Energy, Technology
Barb Darrow Jan 30, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Report: 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Jan 9, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

2014 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.…

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Cleantech, Mobile, Science & Energy
Barb Darrow Nov 20, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

AWS 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Barb Darrow Nov 19, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Microsoft 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
David Meyer Nov 13, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Why 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Nov 12, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Eos 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.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Katie Fehrenbacher Nov 7, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Ambri 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.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Stowe Boyd Nov 3, 2013 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Weekly Update

Apple 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…

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Work & Collaboration
Katie Fehrenbacher Oct 25, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Bill 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…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Katie Fehrenbacher Oct 21, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Bill 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.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Barb Darrow Oct 2, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Hey 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Oct 1, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Shocker: 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Katie Fehrenbacher Sep 30, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Bill Gates backs power grid networking startup Varentec

A startup building smart networking tech for the power grid has gotten an investment from Bill Gates.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Katie Fehrenbacher Sep 16, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Startup 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.…

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Cleantech, Science & Energy
Barb Darrow Sep 12, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Microsoft 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?…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Sep 11, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

In 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Stowe Boyd Sep 3, 2013 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Weekly Update

Microsoft 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…

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Work & Collaboration
Stowe Boyd Sep 1, 2013 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog

ValueAct 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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Work & Collaboration

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