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Bill and Melinda Gates were married for 27 years. [Reuters]
The announcement that billionaire couple, Bill, who co-founded Microsoft, and Melinda French Gates, were calling it quits after 27 years set social media on fire, drawing reactions from all over the world.
The pair first met in 1987 when Melinda, 56, joined Bill s Microsoft as a product manager.
They sat together at a business dinner later that year in New York, began dating and wedded in 1994 on the Hawaiian island of Lanai. It is reported that they hired all the local helicopters to stop unwanted guests from flying over .
Bill and Melinda established the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, a charity that focuses primarily on public health, education and climate change in 2000.
Fox News Profits Grow Even as Viewership Declines
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Lachlan Murdoch, Fox Corporation’s chief executive, claimed victory as Fox News “reclaimed its leadership position as America’s No. 1 cable news network.”Credit.Mike Cohen for The New York Times
Fox News, the cable news giant controlled by Rupert Murdoch, kept its parent company flush in the first three months of the year, notching a slight gain in profit and sales despite a drop in viewers.
Altogether, Fox Corporation beat Wall Street expectations with a sevenfold increase in profit to $567 million and a 6.5 percent drop in revenue to $3.2 billion compared with the same period a year prior. A change in how the company valued some of its assets was a key reason for the profit surge. Investors were looking for a $332 million profit and $3.1 billion in sales.
What is Bill Gates net worth?
According to Forbes, American business magnate, founder and former chairman and CEO of Microsoft, philanthropist and author Bill Gates has a net worth of $124B, with a real-time net worth of $130.5B. Celebrity Net Worth puts him at $146B, adding that he has a salary of $1M.
Bill has been the wealthiest man on the planet for most of the last two decades. Currently, he is the world s fourth richest person after Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and LVMH s Bernald Arnault and family, the Town and Country Magazine reported.
Owns less than 1.3 per cent of Microsoft
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Born on October 28 in 1955 in Seattle, USA, William ‘Bill’ Henry Gates is a known American magnate. It’s a proven fact that Gates is one of the most successful entrepreneurs and a philanthropist in the world. Also Read - MS Office Calibri font no more the default: Check out what is replacing it on Office 365
Earlier on Tuesday, Gates took to Twitter to announce separation with Melinda Gates after 27 years of marriage. In the post, Gates states, “we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple”. Also Read - Microsoft Build 2021 from May 25-27; registration is now open
Bill Gates predicts ‘very small numbers’ of COVID by end of 2022, takes heat for vaccine patent defense
April 26, 2021 at 12:35 pm
Bill Gates predicts “the end will come” for the COVID-19 pandemic, saying in an interview on Sunday that a return to normal will arrive next year.
“We won’t have eradicated this disease, but we’ll be able to bring it down to very small numbers by the end of 2022,” Gates told the UK’s Sky News.
The Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle has been heavily invested in the response to the pandemic in the U.S. and across the world. Gates has championed the need to make sure vaccines reach the developing world.