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Bill Gates and Richard Branson part of £13m investment into lab-grown meat startup
Memphis Meats can grow real beef, chicken and duck from animal cells in a laboratory.
Bill Gates reduces Microsoft stake and donates $4.6bn to charity
Despite the donation, the Microsoft co-founder remains the richest person in the world.
Jeff Bezos briefly overtakes Bill Gates to become world's richest person
Bezos is now estimated to be worth an eye-watering $90bn
Malala joins Twitter on her last day of school, receives warm welcome from Bill Gates, Justin Trudeau
"You continue to inspire me, @Malala," Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates tweeted.
Billionaire Bill Gates offers new college graduates valuable life advice in 14 tweets
'Looking back on when I left college, there are some things I wish I had known,' Bill Gates wrote.
Qantas Airways boss Alan Joyce pied in the face – a brief history of pieing victims
From Bill Gates to Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, all have had their "pie in the face" moments.
Bill Gates warns Theresa May cutting foreign aid spending will put lives at risk
Billionaire philanthropist asks if Brexit means 'stepping away from the entire world'.
WHO and Bill Gates seek more help from big pharma companies to fight neglected tropical diseases
Gates praised the UK government's pledge to double its support in fighting NTDs.
UK plans to 'wipe out' tropical diseases worldwide with £450m funding plan
Funding will help eliminate Guinea worm disease and elephantiasis.
Bill Gates and Roger Federer to team up for charity doubles tennis match in Seattle
John Isner and a celebrity partner will provide opposition for duo at April's Match for Africa 4 event.
How much is Amazon founder Jeff Bezos worth?
A brief biography and the financial history of Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos.
Comic Relief: Star-studded Red Nose Day raises £69 million - so far
Bill and Melinda Gates to double Comic Relief donations given to help eradicate malaria.
Is President Donald Trump's fortune dwindling faster than his approval ratings?
Forbes' latest rich list puts former NY mayor Michael Bloomberg in the top ten richest people in the world.
Bill Gates leads super rich as their combined wealth jumps by almost a fifth to $7.7trn
Forbes rich list was able to find more that 2,000 billionaires for the first time in the 31-year history of the rankings.
Meet Ulrich Spiesshofer: CEO of ABB who champions AI and says taxing robots would be foolish
In an exclusive interview with IBTimes UK, the boss of automation giant says humankind is accelerating towards 'co-bots' not just robots.
Bill Gates' Reddit AMA: 13 most interesting answers from the humorous tech billionaire
The 61-year-old offered his thoughts on everything from artificial intelligence to his favourite sandwich.
Bio-terrorism is a bigger threat than nuclear war, warns Bill Gates
The billionaire magnate said advances in genetic engineering could be a global threat.
Bill Gates: Tax robots if they steal human jobs
The tech titan says people should be enthusiastic about innovation and not fear it.
Could Bill Gates become the world's first trillionaire?
Oxfam says despite all the donations, by his 86th birthday, Gates could well be a trillionaire.
Oxfam's inequality report ignores the facts on poverty and billionaires
Zuckerberg and Gates got rich by creating something people want – we can't confiscate successful businesses.
From Microsoft to Facebook, how have the world's eight richest men built their fortune?
Top 8 billionaires are as wealthy as the 3.6 billion people that make up the poorer 50% of the planet.
Obama awards Bill Gates, Michael Jordan and Ellen DeGeneres with US Presidential Medal of Freedom
Other winners included Tom Hanks, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Gehry, Margaret Hamilton and Maya Lin.
India demonetisation will not have lasting benefits, US economist says
Lawrence Summers warns controversial move may end up doing more harm than good over the long run.
Bill Gates backs India's demonetisation move
Microsoft founder says demonetisation will accelerate India's shift towards a digitised economy.
Bill Gates says his children are 'proud' of his pledge to leave his $70bn fortune to charity
The Microsoft billionaire said his children will be financially secure but forge their own paths in life.
WikiLeaks emails: Tim Cook and Bill Gates were among Hillary Clinton's VP list
Email reveals other potential candidates included Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pledge $3bn to cure all diseases by the end of the century
'We want to dramatically improve every life in Max's generation,' Chan said, referring to their daughter Maxima.
Founder of fashion chain Zara Amancio Ortega named world's richest man with fortune of $79.5billion
The 80-year-old's $79.5bn fortune has surpassed that of Bill Gates after Inditex shares rose by 2.5%.
Want $200,000? Prove the urban myth that Microsoft copied code to create MS-DOS
Did Microsoft use code from CP/M for MS-DOS? Find the command that prints Gary Kildall's name to win a prize.
Microsoft's Bill Gates called the original Xbox pitch 'an insult to everything I've done', co-creator reveals
Xbox co-creator Ed Fries says Gates wasn't too pleased with the idea of having it pivot away from Windows.

