Microsoft will cut 10,000 jobs in the latest round of staff redundancies to hit the tech industry. It will affect up to 5% of its global workforce and cost the business $1.2 billion in severance and reorganisation costs. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said that while customer spending had grown during Covid, more people were […]
Tag: Bill Gates
Bill Gates is now largest farmland owner in US
A fourth-generation farmer in South Georgia, Will Harris, recently shared concerns about Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates allegedly becoming the largest individual farmland owner in the United States. Harris, the owner of White Oak Pastures, a six-generation 152-year-old family farm in Bluffton, Georgia, shared his concerns in a recent post to the farm’s Facebook page. “Hell […]
Why has Bill Gates purchased nearly 300,000 acres of farmland?
A recent purchase of 2,100 acres of prime North Dakota farmland by a group tied to billionaire Bill Gates has some in the state concerned that they are being exploited by the ultra-wealthy. Gates owns some 269,000 acres across dozens of states, according to last year’s edition of the Land Report 100, an annual survey […]
Melinda French Gates reflects on healing from ‘painful’ divorce with Bill Gates, his ties with Jeffrey Epstein
In her first interview since splitting from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates said she is starting to get to the other side of her “journey of healing.” “I’m turning a page in the chapter now … I’m actually really excited about what’s to come in life ahead for me,” she said in a […]
Bill And Melinda Gates Divorcing After 27 Years Of Marriage
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife of 27 years Melinda Gates said in a statement on Monday that they intended to end their marriage. “After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” the pair said in a statement. “We […]
Bill Gates Predicts Climate Change To Kill Millions In Next 30 Years
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates warned that there will be dire consequences if the world does not achieve zero net carbon emissions by the year 2050. In his new book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” Gates says that it is imperative that the world go from the current 51 billion tons of emissions […]
Bill Gates Predicts Next Major Crisis Facing Americans
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates famously predicted an infectious virus was likely to kill millions of people across the globe five years before COVID-19 did just that. “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war,” Gates said during a […]
Automation Pushing America To Universal Basic Income For It’s Citizens
Is a guaranteed paycheck from the government, with no strings attached, the answer to the relentless rise of automation? The concept might sound far-fetched, but a so-called universal basic income (UBI), is currently one of the most hotly debated policy topics being floated as a means to address income inequality and the disruption that technology […]
Clinton’s VP Candidate List Included Tim Cook, Bill Gates
Would Apple CEO Tim Cook have been a good vice president? In an email believed to have been sent on March 17, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta listed several choices for the Democratic presidential nominee to consider for her vice presidential pick. While the list, which was taken from the Clinton campaign and leaked […]