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**FILE** Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, arrive May 7, 2012, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute in New York for a gala benefit celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada. (Associated Press)

Amazon CEO gives $2.5M for Wash. gay marriage law

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** FILE ** In this Oct. 10, 2011, file photo, a magnifying glass is posed over a monitor displaying a Facebook page in Munich. (AP Photo/dapd, Joerg Koch)

Employers put offices in social media pockets

By Cory Brown - The Washington Times

A customer walks out of the Riverside Travel Center in Hilton, Ga., late Friday night after purchasing a lottery ticket for the Mega Millions Lottery, which reached an estimated jackpot of $645 million for Friday night's drawing. (AP Photo/Jay Hare, The Eagle)

Mega Millions winners are rich, but not THAT rich

By Jim Salter and Michael Tarm - Associated Press

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Bill Gates urges agencies to help poor farmers

By Frances d'Emilio - Associated Press

Gates injects $750M in troubled Global Fund

By JOHN HEILPRIN - Associated Press

Juror in Microsoft case at peace with decision

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Jurors deadlock in $1B lawsuit against Microsoft

By PAUL FOY - Associated Press

Jurors deadlock in $1B lawsuit against Microsoft

By PAUL FOY - Associated Press

Judge dismisses $1B lawsuit against Microsoft

By PAUL FOY - Associated Press

Gates discussing new nuclear reactor with China

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Gates back on stand in Utah in $1B antitrust trial

By PAUL FOY - Associated Press

Gates testifies in $1B lawsuit against Microsoft

By PAUL FOY - Associated Press

Microsoft founder Bill Gates arrives at the federal courthouse Monday in Salt Lake City, where he testified in a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit brought by Novell. Mr. Gates said Novell just couldn't deliver a Windows 95-compatible WordPerfect program in time for its rollout. (Associated Press)

Gates testifies in $1B suit against Microsoft

By Paul Foy - Associated Press

Gates to testify in $1B lawsuit against Microsoft

By PAUL FOY - Associated Press

Stars take to Twitter to talk about Steve Jobs

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Before Jobs, Sam Walton and Bill Gates took exits

By CHRISTINA REXRODE - Associated Press

photograph provided by Christopher Rueth
“I certainly did have the plan to go off to college, until I realized that I didn't fit in. I never really fit in in high school. I was always 'that hacker kid.' In the right situation, and if someone can afford it, college can be the right direction. But if you're a nonconformist, you're just not going to be happy there.”
@PullQuoteSig:-Christopher Rueth, a 17-year-old San Diego native, who passed on college for $100,000 to work on wireless Internet technology as part of the 20 Under 20 grant

Dropout grants raise issue of college’s value

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Bill Gates to tell health leaders: More vaccines

By JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

Paul Allen says book not revenge against Gates

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

New memoir highlights tension between Allen, Gates

By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press