Tag: Bill Gates
-
Bill & Melinda interview about Gates Foundation
Why don’t you give more in the United States? Melinda: Our foundation spends about $500 million a year in the United States, most of it on education. That’s a lot, but it is less than the roughly $4 billion we spend to help developing countries. We don’t compare different people’s suffering. All suffering is a…
-
Google, Facebook bad for innovation, democracy: Soros
DAVOS: Calling Internet “monopolies” such as Google and Facebookan obstacle to innovation, billionaire investor George Soros has warned that social media companies can have adverse consequences on the functioning of democracy. Delivering his remarks at the annual World Economic Forumhere on Thursday, the Hungarian-born American billionaire declared that the days of the US-based IT giants…
-
How edtech innovation can revolutionize the education industry
Venture funding for EdTech is booming this year, with CB Insights projecting that there will be a 24 percent growth over last year, with close to $3 billion in total funding. At the center of that growth is a group of entrepreneurs and innovators working together to improve the education industry, increase access, and reduce…