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Gates, USAID, World Bank Invest $50 Million to Save At-Risk Mothers

Saving Lives at Birth aims to propel innovation forward to save at-risk pregnant women in remote parts of the world. READ»

Global Pneumonia Vaccination Campaign Gets the Gates Foundation Treatment Today

The initiative aims to save 700,000 lives by 2015, and seven million more by 2030. READ»

Gates Foundation Bets on Facebook App to Help Kids Graduate

We're used to thinking of Facebook as, at best, a distractor for college kids and at worst, a resume-destroyer. But the Gates Foundation, in its first-ever venture investment of $2 million in a little-known Facebook app platform called Inigral, is betting that it can actually make a measurable improvement in the rate of students who complete college, which hovers at a dismal 56% nationwide.READ»

500 Million People to Use Mobile Health Apps by 2015: mHealth Study

Here's a snapshot of what went on this week in Washington D.C.READ»

How Less Money Is a Good Sign for Aid Industry

Gates Foundation and Afghanistan are scaling back.READ»

Gates Foundation Pushes Technology for College Preparedness

The foundation announced this week that $20 million is up for grabs for innovators in tech for education.READ»

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More Concerns Raised Over Breakthrough Gates-Funded TB Test

Cost, personnel requirements, bureaucratic management, and corruption are just some of the concerns being raised over taking the technology from innovation to implementation.READ»

The Most Beautiful Way to Clean Up Space Junk: A Giant GOLD Balloon

Space junk is a growing problem, and it's getting worse every single minute, with no consensus on how best to clean it up. Now there's at least a solution that's beautiful: The GOLD balloon.READ»

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Bill Gates Sends Mosquitoes Into Crowd

Whether or not you think Bill Gates is a sadist probably has a lot to do with whether or not you're a Vista user, but we can all agree that freeing a swarm of mosquitoes into an auditorium is downright cruel. Yet that's just what ...READ»

Microsoft's New Ad Receives Backlash

If you haven't seen it already, Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] has commissioned a new advertisement featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, in an attempt to salvage public opinion of its new OS, Vista. Curiously, the ad doesn't make ...READ»