BILL GATES

An "Austin Powers" spoof video featuring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and chairman Bill Gates is making the rounds on the Internet. Watch it here.

Forbes' latest list of the most powerful people is a window into the world's shifting power base.

The richest man in Washington, and all of America, remains Bill Gates. Find out who's the richest in your state with this interactive map.

India topped the list as home to half of the world's slave population while Mauritania ranked first in percentage terms.

Reuters' Robert Cyran wrote a column last week urging Bill Gates to step down. Yesterday, investors heeded his call.

The three investors requesting Gates' exit hold more than 5 percent of the company's stock.

The hackers stole confidential data including social security numbers of many prominent U.S. citizens.

The combination was created to trigger a soft reboot, since it was impossible to press all three keys with one hand.

The five wealthiest Chinese now have a combined fortune rivaling that of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Despite well-known missteps, the Microsoft CEO deserves some credit.

Steve Ballmer, a Detroit native who became the second CEO of Microsoft after Bill Gates, was the first business manager hired by Gates in 1980.

The man once called "Governor Moonbeam" says California must "bottle" sunlight.

Bill Gates thinks Project Loon -- Google's plan to use internet balloons to increase internet access -- will do little to help the poor.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is the latest Silicon Valley leader to visit South Korea.

The federal judge who ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a monopoly, Thomas Penfield Jackson, died Saturday due to cancer complications.

As Africa emerges as "the 21st century continent," experts say its future rests on big ideas, entrepreneurship and local ownership.

Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire, has been dethroned from his status as the world's richest person by Bill Gates after a recent rally in Microsoft stock.

Bill Gates is ready to shell out some big bucks for an improvement on condoms, which were once made from goat bladders.

The world’s billionaires had a combined fortune of $5.5 trillion -- the equivalent of China’s GDP, according to Hurun.

Lauren Marbe scored a 161 on a Mensa IQ test, one point higher than well-known big brains such as Albert Einstein.

Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin And Paul Allen were the most charitable tech leaders leaders, according to a recent report.