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Bill Gates is, without a doubt, a very wealthy man. The co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft is currently the richest man in the US and the second richest man in the world, with an approximate net worth of $63.4 billion. However, in a new interview Gates says that all that money doesn’t mean much to him on a personal level.
In a chat with the Telegraph website, Gates says bluntly:
I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes. Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.
That organization is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has used its resources to help fund efforts to stop deadly diseases in third world countries along with efforts to improve education in the US. So far, the group has given out a whopping $28 billion. Gates says that 95 percent of his wealth will go towards the foundation and that the money will all be spent within 20 years of his and his wife’ death.
Gates says there is no specific religious reason for wanting to help others with his vast wealth, saying, “… it’s about human dignity and equality. The golden rule that all lives have equal value and we should treat people as we would like to be treated.”
President Barack Obama cleared the way to let corporations give big money to his Inauguration, but there’s one problem: Corporate America isn’t in a giving mood.
Where President George W. Bush cleaned up for his second inaugural — 45 companies gave $250,000 each — only nine companies have ponied up for Obama’s. And donations from the deep-pocketed folks who helped Obama raise over $1 billion for his campaign haven’t been pouring in either….
Read more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/inauguration-2013-donors-fatigue-86427.html
Facebook announced this week that they are adding Wi-Fi Calling to the Facebook Messenger app on iOS. They also clarified to the BBC that BlackBerry and Android users are getting the feature. They are working on adding support now along with international support. I am just wondering if they are talking about BlackBerry OS 7 support or BlackBerry 10…
via BBC
SAN JOSE, Calif (Reuters) – Internal emails show that executives at tech companies such as Apple and Google believed that an agreement to refrain from poaching each other’s workers would bring real financial benefits, a U.S. judge said on Thursday. Five former employees of various tech companies have filed a civil lawsuit against Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and others, alleging an illegal conspiracy to eliminate competition for each other’s employees. At a hearing in San Jose, California federal court on Thursday, U.S. …
S omeday, you’ll look back and tell the grandkids about it. The happiest day of your life. The day everything started to make sense in the world. You were happy. You felt alive and grounded for the first time… maybe ever. Life was worth experiencing, and Sunday mornings seemed surreal.
No, not marriage or kids… not even those pesky grandkids. I’m talking about the day you switched from an iPhone to Android! That day will live in infamy for the rest of your life. You will look back on it with reverence and delight as you gaze off into the distance at the dinner table. Everyone will say “oh, there you go again… dreaming about Android.”
All joking aside (for now), you’ve made a big change in life and it’s time to get you up and going. This article will serve as your reference point to get set-up, answer questions, and dispel myths. Before we go further, your first step will be to sign up for a Gmail account (if you haven’t already). It all starts from there.
Read more at:
http://www.androidauthority.com/moving-from-ios-android-guide-146807/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co
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