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Report: Bill Gates starts sci-tech think tank
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... is said to be quietly starting a new company in the suburb next to Redmond, Wash., that will oversee his research and philanthropic efforts. Puget Sound Business Journal 's TechFlash.com, quoting an unnamed source, reports that Gates' firm will be called bgC3 LLC . The name stands for ...
Bill Gates's third act [BGC3]
Gawker: valleywag —
... Oh, surely you didn't think Bill Gates would fade away into saintly obscurity after retiring from his day job at Microsoft, did you? Techflash reports he has a new company, a sort of think tank called BGC3. The letterrs stand, roughly, for "Bill Gates Catalyst". The three? Microsoft was Gates's first company; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, his second. BGC3 will house Gates's intellectual musings, with the resulting innovations to be funneled largely to Microsoft or to his foundation. It sounds a bit like former Microsoft research chief Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual ...
Bill Gates founds a new tech company
All about Microsoft —
... — has unearthed new information about Gates’ latest startup. The company, known as bgC3 LLC is a “think tank” based in Kirkland, Wash ., Bishop reports. While insiders describe the firm as a kind of holding company, it seems like Gates has bigger goals. Bishop notes:“Federal trademark filings provide more clues – describing bgC3 as a think tank, under a generic trademark classification that corresponds broadly to areas including “scientific and technological services,” ‘industrial analysis and research,’ and ‘design and development of computer hardware and software.’” ...
bgC3 LLC
Geek In Disguise —
... New site Techflash kicked off with a pretty hot story. Get the news…albeit not much right now from Todd Bishop about Bill Gates’ new company. ...
Bill Gates Has Started a New Company, bgC3
ReadWriteWeb —
Bill Gates has started a mysterious new company, called bgC3, possibly to be focused on creating catalyst business ideas to spin off to Microsoft, the Gates Foundation or elsewhere. Little is known about the company, which doesn't appear to have a public web page, but a fair number of details have been ferreted out by the Seattle area tech reporters Todd Bishop, Eric Engleman and John Cook.
The three well-known tech and venture capital writers posted the story to launch their new tech blog TechFlash. It's a sweet scoop by a group of former mainstream ...
Bill Gates Starts Cryptic New Company
Wired: Epicenter —
... LLC, reports TechFlash, a Seattle-based tech blog that launched today.
Not many details are known thus far, but it is described as a “think tank” in public documents, was original created in March of 2008 under the name Carillon Holdings, and is situated in Gates’ Kirkland office.
"It’s not a commercial venture but rather a vehicle to coordinate the
software mogul’s work on his business and philanthropic endeavors," a Gates insider told TechFlash.
Bill Gates' mysterious new company [TechFlash]
Bill Gates' mysterious new company
TG Daily - All News —
... Business and Law By TechFlash Wednesday, October 22, 2008 22:18 Just months after his Microsoft farewell, Bill Gates is quietly creating a new company -- complete with high-tech office space, a cryptic name and even its own trademark. Public documents describe the new Gates entity - bgC3 LLC - as a think tank. Read the complete story here. ...
Bill Gates’ mysterious new “think tank”: bgC3
CrunchGear —
... : “Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.” And now, his reentry to the tech world is in the form of a mysterious company with no stated objective. Will bgC3 be another force in the world of technology, or is it just a front so Bill has an office to go to every day? ...
Bill Gates Forms New Company
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has founded a new think tank to tackle complex technological and other issues. Despite having retired from the day-to-day business of Microsoft, Gates forms bgC3 LLC to focus on broad technological, scientific and societal issues. However, Gates work on philanthropic issues remains his number one priority, according to reports. Todd Bishop at TechFlash has reported that ...
Bill Gates Starts New Company Called bgC3
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP —
... The “bg” is Bill Gates, the insider says, but the “C” stands for “catalyst.” The idea is that Gates will play that role as he brings together new people and ideas. The “three” reflects the notion of a third place, apart from Microsoft and the foundation.
It should be interesting to see what Bill Gates come up with from this think tank. Hopefully it will be some ideas to help solve our energy crisis.
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Bill Gates launches stealth bgC3 LLC project
The Register —
... So much for quitting Microsoft to spend more time with his medicines. Billionaire Bill Gates has reportedly started a new venture, bgC3 LLC.… ...
What is Bill Gates building in there?
John Brandon's blog —
Reports surfaced today that Bill Gates has started a new company called bgC3.
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Bill Gates funda nova empresa de tecnologia misteriosa, a bgC3
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE —
... e, aparentemente, Gates está sozinho na empreitada. Segundo o TechFlash, a iniciativa não é comercial, e sim “um veículo para coordenar os trabalhos do magnata de software em negócios, filantropia e desafios científicos.” ...
Bill Gates' Mystery Startup: bgC3
AppScout —
Todd Bishop, who has covered Microsoft for the last five years at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has helped kick off his new TechFlash.com site with by revealing some details behind bgC3, a new startup apparently backed and founded by Bill Gates. ...
Bill Gates’ Mysterious New Company
Geeknews —
bgc3 The graphic above is the logo for Bill Gates’ new company: bgC3. Yes, that’s right, several months after departing Microsoft, BillG is heading up a new company and it’s not too forthcoming with details, though Techflash has talked to an insider to get a sneak peek . I wonder if he’s going to invest in some kind of open source idea or possibly find himself heading up another big money machine. As you can tell from the ...
Roundup: Moore’s Law extended, AT&T pays Apple $900M, Bill Gates’ new venture and more
VentureBeat —
... Bill Gates’ secretive new company — The Microsoft co-founder has a new company called bgC3, which appears to be a sort of think tank or lab intended to spin out ideas to Microsoft and others, according to brand-new Seattle tech blog TechFlash. ...
“bgC3 LLC” Bill Gates’ newly found tech company
D' Technology Weblog —
... Information about Bill Gates’ latest technology startup is being revealed. The company, known as bgC3 LLC is a “think tank” based in Kirkland, Wash. While insiders describe the firm as a kind of holding company, it seems like Gates has bigger goals. Todd Bishop notes: ...
p2pnet news roundup: October 23, 2008
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Bill Gates’ mysterious new company - Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog
Just months after his Microsoft farewell, Bill Gates is quietly creating a new company — complete with high-tech office space, a cryptic name and even its own trademark. Public documents describe the new Gates entity — bgC3 LLC — as a “think tank.” It’s housed within a Kirkland office that the Microsoft co-founder established on his own after leaving his day-to-day executive role at the company this summer. Is this Bill Gates’ next big business? A Gates ...
Linkpost | 10.23.2008
TechBlog —
... - No word yet on when D3, as it's known, will make it to Houston. Get ready for 50 Mbps download speeds. Even basic customers will get upgraded to 12 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up. • Bill Gates' mysterious new company - In his new blog, Todd Bishop looks into BillG's new bgC3 LLC. • ...
QuickBits: The Double Whammy for Sony and More
Bits —
... [WSJ] Apple University, the very nifty set of college lectures that is free on iTunes, gets its first dean: Joel Podolny, formerly the dean of the Yale School of Management. Bill Gates’ mysterious new company [TechFlash] After giving up on saving Microsoft so he can ...
Gates isn’t done just yet; preliminary bgC3 details emerge
Boy Genius Report —
... You didn’t think Willy G would be content fading away into the background after stepping down as the head of Microsoft, did you? Not a chance. Of course the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a place where Bill can still play boss but Gates never was a one-horse town kind of guy. Enter “bgC3 LLC”. Details regarding Gates’ latest venture are still scarce and much of the detail we have is unconfirmed but rest assured, bgC3 is likely a name we’ll be seeing plenty of in the coming months and years. Firstly, what does the name mean? ...
Around the Web 10.23.08: Comings and (lots of) goings in the tech world
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... -- Sun Microsystems loses founder Andy Bechtolsheim to start-up. NYT
-- Microsoft founder Bill Gates has a mysterious new company of his own, bgC3. TechFlash
-- Mahalo means goodbye for some employees of Jason Calacanis' start-up. TechCrunch
-- Imeem reportedly bids so long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye to as much a quarter of its staff and puts itself on the block. PaidContent.org
-- Laying off your troops means ...
Bill Gates aims to catalyze technology again
MacUser —
... According to Tech Flash, bgc3 stands for “Bill Gates Catalyst 3”, though honestly, that makes it sound more like some sort of eerie supervillain-like corporation. Let’s open this up to you, dear readers: what is Billy G up to now? Chime in below. ...
Bill Gates Starts New Company
WebProNews Feed —
... somewhere beautiful. Not so for Bill Gates, though, recently semi-sorta-retired from Microsoft. He s starting a new company. Bill Gates Starts New Company Don t get all excited yet; bgC3 LLC is intended to be a small Bill Gates-powered think tank. What will he be thinking about? A trademark classification applies the broad stroke of scientific and technological services, industrial analysis and research, and design and development of computer hardware and software. Seattle-based TechFlash says the new company will be a vehicle to coordinate the software mogul s work on his ...
Tech Watch: Music on Facebook; Bill Gates's Rumored Think Tank; Amazon's Q3 Earnings Bad, But Good
Fast Company - Technology —
... from Windows XP to Windows 7, the public decrying Vista ads, and Apple ads ever on the attack. Yet Microsoft 's founder may be keeping his distance, as he promised he would in June when he announced he was retiring from full-time Microsoft responsibilities to pursue philanthropy. The Redmond whiz kid is now affiliated with an organization called BGC3, which is said to be the moniker given to Gates' private, non-Microsoft and non-philanthropic office space. According to the Seattle Post Intelligencer , Gates may be pursuing a think-tank services operation. That tidbit was ...
Bill Gates' bgC3 LLC project launches in stealth mode
Obsessable News Feed —
... Little is known about Bill Gates' latest venture, but it has a logo, a name, and some supposedly "high tech" offices according to new Seattle technology site, TechFlash. The name, bgC3, reportedly comes from Bill Gates + catalyst + "the third thing." ...
Bill Gates' New Career? Patent Troll For Nathan Myhrvold?
Techdirt —
Plenty of folks have been wondering just what Bill Gates is up to now that he's left his full-time position at Microsoft. Longtime rabble-rouser theodp has alerted us to one thing that Bill Gates is spending at least some of his time on: a ...
