This Month
In Pictures: Tech titans gather for day three of Sun Valley billionaire camp
Jeff Bezos, Cliff Obrecht and Bill Gates are among the rich and powerful gathering for the third day at Allen & Company’s annual Sun Valley Conference in Idaho.
June
Final bash set to end lavish Bezos wedding party in Venice
Some guests were seen leaving the Gritti Palace hotel in central Venice wearing their pyjamas before boarding small boats to reach the party.
Gates, Oprah, Kushner: Bezos celebrates ahead of nuptials
Five hotels and 30 water taxis were booked out as the three-day $76 million wedding got under way in Venice despite local protests.
Bezos’ Venice wedding plans upended as celebrities jet in
Dozens of private jets carrying Bill Gates, Lachlan Murdoch, Lady Gaga, Elton John and others are expected to arrive in Venice this week.
‘Next Cochlear’ launches ASX float to sell its ‘medical Lego’
Tetratherix, a medical device company backed by Xero founder Rod Drury, is set to make its ASX debut later this month with an ambitious global pitch for investors.
May
Bill Gates is giving away $310b. Can his plans survive the Trump era?
The billionaire’s strategy to turbocharge his global health drive could be undermined by political reality, as the US and other Western governments drastically cut foreign aid.
Bill Gates to give away $311b, accuses Musk of killing children
The co-founder of Microsoft, who will donate nearly all his wealth and wind up his charitable foundation by 2045, hit out at the Tesla boss and Donald Trump.
April
Bill Gates’ daughter determined to make it on her own
Phoebe Gates, the youngest and most stylish of Bill and Melinda Gates’ children, steps into the spotlight as a founder of a new online shopping tool.
Employment jumps; No Fed bailouts coming; ASX pressured on James Hardie
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Bill Gates enters race to build mini nuclear reactors in Britain
The billionaire’s new company, TerraPower, is looking to break into an increasingly competitive market to build small modular reactors
March
WiseTech shareholders just one cheeseburger away from the void
Richard White’s blind confidence in his own understanding of people – learned from those psychology books he recommends to women on LinkedIn – is deeply misplaced.
December 2024
Victoria’s asset sale; MinRes’ gag request; Wesfarmers’ rates alert
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Bill Gates believes the world is at a dangerous tipping point
The philanthropist has been fighting global disease for 25 years. He is now wrestling with the optimist’s dilemma.
November 2024
ASIC’s Joe Longo named Time climate crusader
This feels like 2011, when Euromoney opened our eyes to the charms of Wayne Swan.
October 2024
Billionaires bankroll the hunt for nuclear energy’s ‘holy grail’
The massive power demands of AI have triggered a round of frantic deal-making as companies battle for uninterrupted supplies.
Why Microsoft Excel won’t die
The spreadsheet program has entered its 40th year, although those forced to use it won’t necessarily be celebrating.
September 2024
More US cleantech companies close as fundraising challenges emerge
Start-up cleantech businesses that easily raised money from venture firms just two or three years ago are now finding it harder to get hold of fresh cash.
August 2024
Joy for ‘Britain’s Bill Gates’ and lawyers ends in superyacht tragedy
Just weeks after a huge courtroom victory, UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch is among seven people, including a Morgan Stanley executive, missing off Palermo’s coast.
July 2024
Tech meltdown revealed a fundamental flaw in plain sight
The global CrowdStrike breakdown revealed just how much of the global IT system is built on inherently unsafe code.
Kardashian, Blair, Tyson: Global elite flock to Ambani mega-wedding
A pantheon of global celebrities, politicians and CEOs are descending on India’s financial capital for the wedding of the son of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani.