Michael Bloomberg tops the list of America's biggest donors for the second year in a rowFormer New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $3.7 billion to various causes in 2024, leading the Philanthropy 50 list for the secon...
04 Mar, 2025, 10.10 PM IST
The Warren Buffett Legacy: What's next for his billions?Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has revised his will to redirect his considerable fortune away from the Bill & Melinda Gate...
30 Jun, 2024, 02.24 PM IST
Bill Gates gifts his books to Ratan Tata during Mumbai meetingBill Gates, on his visit to Mumbai, met with Ratan Tata and gifted him two books written by him.
02 Mar, 2023, 02.02 PM IST
Warren Buffett donates over USD750 million to his family charitiesBuffett has been making annual donations to the same five charities every year since 2006 when he unveiled a plan to give away his fortune ...
24 Nov, 2022, 06.30 AM IST
A teary Bill Gates goes back in time, recalls Warren Buffett's friendly donation worth $36 bn since 2006The Microsoft founder said he was grateful to have a friend like Buffett.
15 Jun, 2022, 07.01 PM IST
Bill Gates, Melinda French top 2021 biggest gift list with $15 billion donation to foundationA portion of the gift will also pay for building projects.
01 Jan, 2022, 10.36 AM IST
By exiting, is Warren Buffett escaping potential messiness of the Gates split between his 2 longtime friends?The divorce put Buffett in an awkward position as tie-breaker for the two exes.
24 Jun, 2021, 11.35 AM IST
When the Gates close, something else opensMelinda and Bill announced that they parted ways on Monday because they had ‘stopped growing’ in their marriage — something that goes to sh...
06 May, 2021, 11.22 PM IST
Bill Gates makes largest donation since 2000 with $4.6-billion pledgeThe billionaire donated 64 million of the software maker’s shares valued at $4.6 billion on June 6, according to a Securities & Exchange Co...
16 Aug, 2017, 12.07 AM IST
Jeff Bezos tops Buffett as world's third-richest on Amazon riseThe Amazon.com Inc founder’s net worth was $65.05 billion Thursday, topping Buffett by $32 million on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
22 Jul, 2016, 03.54 PM IST
Warren Buffett donates $2.2 billion to Bill Gates FoundationBuffett, 85, contributed 15 million class B shares of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to the foundation on Wednesday, according to a regulator...
16 Jul, 2016, 03.15 AM IST
Joyous dad, Mark Zuckerberg, to give away 99% Facebook sharesMark Zuckerberg and his wife pledged to give away virtually all of their $46 billion in Facebook shares, setting a new philanthropic benchm...
03 Dec, 2015, 04.16 AM IST
Third eye: Gadkari serves poha to billFrom Nitin Gadkari to Ajit Singh, here is a look at how our politicians fared last week.
24 Sep, 2014, 06.49 AM IST
Spoil the rod and spare the worldThe senior Bill Gates co-chairs the world’s largest charity - the $27.5 billion Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Earlier, he was senior p...
26 Aug, 2009, 02.01 AM IST
- Bill pushes for gatesway to America
Microsoft's Gates bats for India, wants to participate in UID project. He also called for greater R&D focus. Outsourcers use slump to get b...
25 Jul, 2009, 05.00 PM IST
- Gates Foundation must sell 550,000 Berkshire Hathaway shares
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's trust will sell more than half of its nearly 1 billion shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to com...
21 Mar, 2008, 08.38 AM IST
- Buffett gift to go into fighting disease
Warren Buffett’s contribution of about $1.5bn a year to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be used to seek cures for the world’s wors...
28 Jun, 2006, 12.29 AM IST