Warren Buffett to bequeath vast wealth to new foundation upon death
The billionaire investor ends nearly two decades of gifts to the Gates Foundation for a new charity led by his children
Melinda Gates
Sewage crisis: why this UK election is being fought on – and in – rivers and lakes
Planet Business: French Gates’s $1bn donation, a planned worker stoppage at Samsung and Google AI clangers
Bono receives major US award for work tackling poverty, injustice
U2 singer awarded Fulbright Prize for International Understanding
Divorces of the rich and famous: A 1% solution or the start of a trend?
As recent high-profile splits end ‘amicably’, the less well-known may follow in their footsteps
Microsoft investigated Gates over alleged involvement with female employee
Software giant reviewed matter with the help of an outside law firm
What we know about Xanadu 2.0, Bill and Melinda Gates’s $131m private estate
With the couple divorcing, what will happen to their lakefront property in the Seattle suburbs?
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation faces questions over future after split
Couple’s 27-year marriage is ending but commitment to philanthropy remains
Breda O’Brien: Time to question our tech billionaire overlords
Moronic conspiracy theories about Bill Gates wanting to microchip the world only detract attention from the vast, unaccountable power he already wields
Lustful leaders: The good, the bad and the narcissistic
What drives those who dominate in business and politics is the focus of a new book
Covid-19 turns WHO into battleground for superpower rivalry
UN organisation has been subjected to barrage of criticism over response to pandemic
Planet Business: Sky taxis take off and why our seafood profits are anything but fishy
This week Trump ventured into the enemy territory – California – while ‘one woke dude’ impressed Vanity Fair
Irish tech firms make their mark at the ever-growing SXSW event
Enterprise Ireland stand demonstrates potential of our country’s growing tech sector
Mark Zuckerberg sold nearly $500m in Facebook stock last month
Facebook founder sells shares to fund his philanthropic investment vehicle CZI
Jeff Bezos moved into philanthropy with a single tweet - followed by 42,000 more
Denis O’Brien offers advice to Amazon founder on how best to help people ‘right now’
Bill Gates shares his one regret with new college graduates
Microsoft co-founder issues career and life advice for people finishing university
The great innovation debate: has the revolution stalled?
Growth in productivity and output has proved disappointing while society is increasingly divided
Five things you need to know today
Unfounded symphysiotomy claims, Obama and Ellen and fears about The Quiet Man
Obama praises Ellen DeGeneres for carrying ‘incredible burden’
US President awards Tom Hanks, Springsteen and others with Medal of Freedom
Bono, the most hated woman in Ireland
Bono has been made a woman of the year. It’s not enough to make Irish people like him
Giving it away: The world’s top philanthropists
Their profile is changing: techies in their 30s made up half of the most generous US philanthropists last year
EU partners with Gates Foundation to end global undernutrition
‘Nutrition is an investment in our collective future, in the potential of individuals’
Pope to address UN food summit in Rome
Irish Government to be represented at three-day assembly by Leo Varadkar
Like Mark Zuckerberg, some tech titans are more generous than others
Charitable donation structure in Ireland needs an overhaul
Forbes award: Buffett cites Chuck Feeney as ‘my hero’
Irish American businessman and philanthropist receives a Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award
Seattle: the new centre of a growing technology boom
The west-coast city is fast becoming the global hub for cloud computing
Who’s the world’s most powerful woman? Angela, of course
German leader tops Forbes list of most influential women, followed by Yellen, Gates
World’s poorest countries will be ‘richer than China is now’ by 2035
Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, decries naysayers who claim world is getting worse
Gilmore to meet Ban Ki-Moon at UN in New York
Tánaiste arrives in US for five day visit in which he will discuss Syria and immigration reform
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