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Inside The Audacious Plan To Use 10,000 Nuclear Microreactors To Wean The World Off Coal
Bret Kugelmass of Last Energy aims to build his first 10 inexpensive, off-the-shelf fission reactors in eastern Europe. Anhour west of Houston, where suburban sprawl surrenders to cow pasture, sits a ...
Waiting On Taylor Swift
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JULY 10: Taylor Swift performs onstage as Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, SZA and Becky … [+] G perform at The Prime Day concert, presented by Amazon Music at on July 10, 2019...
Amazon’s Bold $5 Prescription Drug Program Is The Future Of Pharmacy
Amazon is taking yet another bold step into the world of healthcare, further solidifying its powerful footprint in the business-to-consumer “B2C” space. Earlier this week, the tech giant announced its...
Bill Gates Sees China’s Rise As “A Huge Win For The World”
Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in 2021. Photographer: Hollie … [+] Adams/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP China’s rise to a leading economy in recent deca...
Gates Foundation CEO Defends Philanthropy’s Influence On Global Health
Topline Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman in his annual letter pushed back against criticism about the organization’s power and influence on key public health initiatives around the ...
Warren Buffett’s Fortune Gains as Elon Musk Fumbles
Warren Buffett’s net worth increased in 2022, and he rose to rank as the fifth richest man in the world. Buffett’s fortune fell by only $1.48 billion, a performance that outpaces four tech...
Geo-Engineer Most Of The Earth’s Surface? May Not Be A Great Idea!
Geoengineering getty As climate change shifts from a “far-off problem” to “eminent threat” in public perception, governments and billionaire philanthropists scramble to mitigate the impacts of global ...
Elon Musk Loses More Money Than Gates and Bezos
The net worth of billionaire Elon Musk continues to plummet, exceeding the amount of money that both Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have lost in 2022. As shares of Tesla (TSLA) – Get Free Report, th...
Paul Allen’s Collection Fetches Record $1.5 Billion
Topline Art amassed by late Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen brought in more than $1 billion at Christie’s Wednesday evening, setting the record for the most valuable single-owner art collection ever so...
Electric Vehicles Are Here And Electric Jets Are Coming. Should We Fear Electrification Of The Economy?
A prototype of an electric-powered aircraft set to be flown in the Air Race E-series, sits display … [+] during the first day of the 16th Dubai Air Show at Dubai World Central (DWC) in Dubai, Un...
This Silicon Valley Tycoon Has Lost Half His Net Worth This Year
Silicon Valley founders and CEOs have had a rough year so far, losing billions of dollars in net worth. Technology company billionaires make up 6 of the top 10 biggest losers so far this year, with lo...
Who Is Gautam Adani? The Indian Billionaire Briefly Became The World’s No. 2 Wealthiest Person And Ranks Above Bezos And Gates
Topline Indian billionaire Gautam Adani briefly became the second-richest person in the world Friday, trailing only Elon Musk, and the relatively unknown infrastructure and energy mogul is now wealthi...
Bill Gates Is Ecolab’s Largest Shareholder. He Just Scooped Up More Shares.
Text size Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been buying shares of Ecolab. Leon Neal/WPA Pool /Getty Images Ecolab ’s largest shareholder, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, bought more shares of the p...
Bill Gates’ nuclear company TerraPower raises $750 million
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and Chair of the Gates Foundation, walks to a morning session during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 08, 2022 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Diet...
How Bill Gates-Backed Republic Services Turns Trash Into Big Cash
Garbage was the ultimate commodity business until a young McKinsey consultant saw how Republic Services could transform itself into a profit machine by pricing all sorts of trash at a premium. Now he’...
Here’s Why Pickleball—The Fastest-Growing Sport In America—Is Bill Gates’ Favorite Game
Topline Billionaire Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates is “stunned” but “delighted” that his favorite sport—pickleball—has become the fastest-growing sport in America, he said Tuesday in a blog post dedic...
Almost Time To Invest In Innovation Again
(Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Technology stocks is in a rut. Investors are worried the sector has been in a bu...
Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are based on ‘greater fool theory’
Bill Gates Gerard Miller | CNBC Bill Gates is not a fan of cryptocurrencies or non-fungible tokens. Speaking at a TechCrunch talk on climate change Tuesday, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder descri...
Pfizer Offers Low-Cost Drugs And Vaccines—Including Covid Treatments—To World’s Poorest Countries
Topline Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Wednesday said it will make its entire portfolio of patented medicines and vaccines available to low-income countries on a not-for-profit basis in a bid to narro...
If Google’s Dominance Concerns You, the Only Solution Is Continued Google Dominance
It’s a presidential tradition that serious, tier one candidates for the office speak at the Detroit Economics Club. Young people must wonder why since Detroit is almost never the city mentioned as the...
Bill Gates Explains Why He Doesn’t Own Any Cryptocurrency
American businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates makes a speech at the Malaria Summit at 8 … [+] Northumberland Avenue on April 18, 2018 in London, England. Getty Images Microsoft cofounder Bi...
New Report Reveals Names Of America’s Biggest Earners–And How Little They Pay In Taxes
Topline Some of America’s richest billionaires—including the likes of Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and Ken Griffin—were among the highest earners between 2013 and 2018, but that didn’t mean they paid...
Bill Gates Bought Up More of This Waste-Management Stock
Waste-management company Republic Services has been down in the dumps this year, but its largest shareholder, Bill Gates, just bought more shares. Republic Services stock (ticker: RSG) has slid 14% ye...
Advances In Fracking – Low-Tech, High-Tech, And Climate-Tech.
Frac pumps inject frac fluid and sand into a well in Greeley, Colorado. Denver Post via Getty Images The Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference (HFTC) was held in The Woodlands, Texas, on February...
Covid risks have reduced but another pandemic will come
Bill Gates said Friday that the risks of severe disease from Covid-19 have “dramatically reduced” but another pandemic is all but certain. Speaking to CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at Germany...
Bill Gates Thinks Covid Could Be The Last Pandemic—And He’s Written A Book On How To Make That Happen
Topline Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has written a book about how to prevent the next pandemic, the billionaire philanthropist announced in a blog post Tuesday, writing that he believes that coronav...
Why Moderna, Pfizer and the NIH debate who owns the Covid vaccine
It’s been well over a year since a landmark proposal brought the issue of patent waiver for the mRNA Covid vaccine to the spotlight. But many observers don’t see that waiving the intellect...