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Gates, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal in Joint Bid for Four Seasons Hotel

Feb 13, 2007

Four Seasons goes private with $3.4 billion buyout

Following a wave of consolidations in the lodging industry, Four Seasons Hotels Inc. becomes the latest target of a trend toward taking hotel operators private. Canadian-based luxury hotel chain on Monday accepted a $3.4 billion bid from an investor group that includes its own chief executive as well as Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

Full report here

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Bill Gates and Paul Allen cruise Antarctica in super yacht

Feb 6, 2007

Bill Gates is currently on an Antarctica cruise in one of the largest and most luxurious private super-yachts belonging to his associate Paul Allen.

The 250 million US dollars “Octopus” with Gates and 17 relatives and friends called in Ushuaia over the weekend to wait for Allen who arrived in a private Boeing 757 and was flown on board in a helicopter.

The Gates and Allen group are scheduled to cruise the Antarctic peninsula during ten days before returning to Ushuaia.

More from this Mercopress report

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Bill Gates Cuts Daughter’s Computer Games Playtime

Feb. 22nd, 2007

According to a Reuters report, Bill Gates revealed to a business audience in Ottawa that he put a limit to the time his10-year-old daughter spends on gaming. "She became very avid and discovered a lot of computer games, including one that runs on the Xbox 360 called Viva Piñata, where you take care of your garden," Gates revealed.

Gates and his wife Melinda have decided to set a limit for game playing (even on XBox) of 45 minutes a day and an hour on weekends.

Unlimited money does not mean unlimited time, eh?

More details about this here

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In a recently digitized talk of a Bill Gates 1989 to the Computer Science Club, Bill Gates discusses the past, present and future of Microsoft. The talk was recorded in 1989 but was only recently digitized. See also a nice picture of Gates with a number of other members - the picture was taken after the talk

One tidbit - In his talk, Bill Gates refers to the fact that he thought that in 1981, 640k would be good enough for everyone!

Picture and audio transcript available here

Labels: bill-gates, computers