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In the fourth annual letter he has issued since 2009, Bill Gates challenged global leaders to invest in innovations that are making a difference for the world's poorest or risk a future in which millions in the developing world starve....

Bill Gates's annual letter, his third as full-time co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, includes a call to donor governments to invest in foreign aid despite a challenging fiscal and economic environment....

Druckenmiller will join the ranks of other business titans, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and former Citigroup chair Sanford "Sandy" Weill, who stepped away from the business world to devote more time to philanthropy....

Signatories of the pledge, which Bill Gates and Warren Buffett launched six weeks ago to encourage the nation's billionaires to give at least half of their fortunes to charity, include Larry Ellison, George Lucas, Jeff Skoll, and Michael Bloomberg....

The awards went to eleven individuals who have made significant achievements in science, technology, or business, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and University of Toronto professor W.

Richard Peltier....

Fourteen individuals, including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, financier and Open Society Institute founder George Soros, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg have given at least $1 billion during their lifetimes....

Speaking at the annual legislative summit of the National Conference of State Legislatures, Gates told lawmakers that developing uniform achievement standards will be key to getting the system back on track....

At 2008's World Economic Forum, Bill Gates challenged corporations to engage in 'creative capitalism,' or be more socially responsible.

Kai Ryssdal speaks with journalist Michael Kinsley about what that entails.

As the co-founder of Microsoft leaves to focus on his charitable work, the business world pauses to look back on the legacy of one of the most successful businessmen in history.

Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.