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Bill Gates Congressional Page

March 26, 2012 by · Comments Off on Bill Gates Congressional Page 

Bill Gates Congressional Page, William Henry “Bill” Gates III (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington) is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.

He is consistently ranked among the world’s wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third; in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the second wealthiest person. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with 6.4 percent of the common stock. He has also authored or co-authored several books.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Gates has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work, and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates’ last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman.

Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. His parents are of English, German, and Scots-Irish descent. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gates’s maternal grandfather was J. W. Maxwell, a national bank president. Gates has one elder sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and one younger sister, Libby. He was the fourth of his name in his family, but was known as William Gates III or “Trey” because his father had the “II” suffix. Early on in his life, Gates’ parents had a law career in mind for him. When Gates was young, his family regularly attended a Congregational church.

At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school. When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School’s rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the school’s students. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer.

Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. When he reflected back on that moment, he said, “There was just something neat about the machine.” After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, he and other students sought time on systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students-Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans-for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.

At the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC’s software in exchange for computer time. Rather than use the system via Teletype, Gates went to CCC’s offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including programs in FORTRAN, LISP, and machine language. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970, when the company went out of business. The following year, Information Sciences, Inc. hired the four Lakeside students to write a payroll program in COBOL, providing them computer time and royalties. After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote the school’s computer program to schedule students in classes.

He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students. He later stated that “it was hard to tear myself away from a machine at which I could so unambiguously demonstrate success.” At age 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen, called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor. In early 1973, Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973. While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who later succeeded Gates as CEO of Microsoft.

Arfa Karim: Microsoft Certified Professional

January 29, 2012 by · Comments Off on Arfa Karim: Microsoft Certified Professional 

Arfa Karim: Microsoft Certified Professional, At last Arfa Karim failed to resist against her ailment and flew away, leaving the whole nation grieved. The 16-year-old Arfa became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of nine amazingly.

The cute child unfortunately perished a few weeks ago after a heart attack following an epileptic fit. Before her tragic end, a religious Islamic student from Saudi Arabia said that she was not affected by any disease but faced a whammy. He further elaborated and referred various Hadiths (saying of Prophet Muhammad PBUH) in which He (PBUH) said that whammy could claim lives.

Many Muslims usually don’t believe in whammy or ‘jin’ (genie) as they think that these are just superstitions and nothing more. I want to suggest them that they all should recite the Holy Quran with translation and comprehend what the Quran teaches. There are various verses in the Holy Quran in which Allah Almighty has mentioned about genie or “evil of darkness”. There is a complete Chapter ‘Jin’ about evil of darkness.

Most of the people did not take the statement of the religious student seriously who termed Arfa’s illness a whammy. Anyways, there is a Saudi cleric Sheikh Wahid Bali, who has written a book whose Urdu version under the name of ‘talwaar’ (Sword) is available in market. He has mentioned and referred various verses from the Holy Quran and ‘Hadiths’ that are very beneficial for the Muslims to get rid of any magic or whammy etc. The cleric has further mentioned various incidents concerning evil of darkness and various diseases that a person believes to be illness but is whammy or magic. The thing in the book that attracted my attention is that Sheikh Wahid Bali has said he does not deny that a person cannot receive diseases, suggesting that there should be a special department settled in every hospital where those patients be cured through the holy verses from the Holy Quran who failed to be cured through medicines.

Warren Buffett

March 10, 2011 by · Comments Off on Warren Buffett 

Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett borrowed 8 billion so he can buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway last year, but it is not too worried.

Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) made and .25 billion in dividends from the railways in less than 13 months, reports Bloomberg. If that sounds a lot, because it is: Payment is triple what the railroad already paid before being acquired.

It is an Oracle of Omaha suspicious. Berkshire had $ 38.2 billion in cash at the end of December, and dividends from Burlington Northern will add to this cash, reports Bloomberg.

Berkshire bought Burlington Northern $ 26.5 billion – a move Buffett calls the “culmination of 2010” in his annual letter to shareholders last month. When he bought the railroad, Buffett described the initiative as an “all-in bet” on the future of the U.S. economy.

The bet was good, as the result of the railroad expanded from 43% to 2.46 billion years and the last.

Shareholders of rival railways can really feel good dividends, reports Bloomberg. They could provide assurance that the presence of Berkshire wills not other railroads at a disadvantage.

“I did indeed wonder if Burlington Northern is a major advantage as a private entity,” said one analyst told Bloomberg. “This suggests that it is certainly not the case.”

Source: http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post.aspx?post=ba237925-82c1-404d-912e-471894b99510

Forbes

March 10, 2011 by · Comments Off on Forbes 

Forbes, The 2011 edition of Forbes’ billionaires in the world “list is out – and six pioneers Facebook has managed to make the cut.
As the value of Facebook has surged, have the fortune of its founders. On the 2011 Forbes’ billionaires in the world “list, six of the original architects of Facebook have made the cut.

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is at the top of society’s richest, ranking in the nd richest person in the world. It’s a significant jump from last year, which had, at number 212 on the Forbes list.

Zuckerberg fortune has more than tripled since 2010, soaring from & 4 to 13.5 billion and this year, mostly due to Facebook and 50 billion valuations, and after an injection of 1.5 billion in cash by Goldman Sachs.

Co-founder Dustin Moskovitz is next to the line, to 2.7 billion. With barely 26 years under his belt, Moskovitz is the world’s youngest billionaire. This year is the first time Moskovitz to the Forbes list.

Former President of Facebook (and co-founder of Napster) Sean Parker ensures his place with a fortune and 1.6 billion. Facebook investor Peter Thiel and follows with 1.5 billion. And Russian Yuri Milner investor turns to the lower end with a value of $ billion.

Eduardo Saverin, including the overthrow of Facebook was made famous as the main scenario of the Oscar-nominated film The Social Network, also made the list, with Forbes estimating that her settlement with Zuckerberg and he earned about 1.6 billion.

“Tears of Eduardo,” Steve Forbes, editor of the magazine, tells the Guardian. “If you get to be thrown out, a billion dollars is not a severance bad.”

The list of top three remains unchanged from last year, with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett at No. 3 (and 50 billion) and Microsoft founder Bill Gates at No. 2 (and billion). Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu took the title of “richest person in the world” with a fortune worth 74 billion.

In all, Forbes believes that the world has a total of, 210 billionaires.

Source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-lands-six-on-forbes-billionaires-list/

Carlos Slim

March 10, 2011 by · Comments Off on Carlos Slim 

Carlos Slim, Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim has increased his lead over the others on the list of billionaires Forbes magazine’s richest people in the world.

The publication of the list Wednesday is the day of the flagship company of slim claims he is victim of monopolistic practices by firms in other highly concentrated on television and Telecommunications Commission of Mexico.

Slim fortune is estimated to have increased to 74 billion, well ahead of Bill Gates and $ billion and the investor Warren Buffett and $ billion. French luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault is fourth with 41 billion.

Slim has earned the highest since last year; his wealth has been fixed at 53.5 billion.

A total of 332 Asians made the Forbes list, surpassing Europe to for the first time.

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