LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-William H. Gates II, a lawyer and philanthropist who was the father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has died at 94. Gates died peacefully Monday at his beach home in Washington state from Alzheimer’s disease, his family announced Tuesday. In an obituary, the family credited the patriarch with a “deep commitment to…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Twitter accounts of major companies and individuals have been compromised in one of the most widespread and confounding hacks the platform has ever seen, all in service of promoting a bitcoin scam that appears to be earning its creator quite a bit of money. We don’t know how it’s happened or…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-That’s Bill Gates, the Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +1.26% co-founder whose philanthropic foundation has long funded the global fight against infectious diseases, speaking about the coronavirus pandemic Thursday night during a virtual town hall on CNN. Appearing with anchor Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Gates said the U.S. is “not even close”…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-About 50 journalists working with Microsoft are set to lose their jobs, as the American multinational tech giant reportedly moves to replace them with robots. According to local media reports, those affected are contract employees working as curators for the company’s news website, MSN. They perform functions such as selection of stories,…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) halted a coronavirus testing program promoted by billionaire Bill Gates and Seattle health officials pending reviews. The program sought to send test kits to the homes of people both healthy and sick to try to bring the country to the level of testing officials say is…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS Bill Gates believes we may eventually need to produce as many as 14 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines globally and that we’re anywhere from nine months to two years away from making that happen. In a blog post Thursday, the billionaire Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist outlined what the race for a…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A petition to investigate Bill Gates for “crimes against humanity” and “medical malpractice” has gained a staggering 289,000 signatures from concerned citizens, almost tripling the number required to get a response from the White House. The “We the People” petition asks the federal government to call on Congress to investigate the Bill…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bill Gates has condemned Donald Trump’s decision to suspend funding for the World Health Organization, saying it is “as dangerous as it sounds”. The billionaire Microsoft founder tweeted that the world needs the health body more than ever. Trump’s controversial decision, which he said was made over the WHO’s handling of the…