Gordon Brown

...free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED...

In this article: TED, California, Oxford, Mysore, Long Beach, Economics, Nobel Prize, What the World Needs Now, and Jane Goodall

Microsoft chairman says he won't 'get into that' Bill Gates is in London today to meet with Gordon Brown, and while he's here there are a few other things in his diary. I've just come back from a speech he made at the Institute of...

In this article: Bill Gates, Microsoft, JavaScript, Institute of Directors, and Michael Bloomberg

...out in Seattle Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown attend a press conference on the Millennium Development Goals The Bill & Melinda...

In this article: Bill Gates, Gates Foundation, Seattle, AIDS, University of Washington, Microsoft, Poverty, and Malaria

Brown was joined on a platform by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, rock star Bono and Queen Rania of Jordan in launching a fresh appeal to the international community to honour commitments to meet the millennium development goals by 2015. He...

In this article: Bono, Credit crunch, Malaria, Queen Rania of Jordan, Bill Gates, Poverty, Shock, and AIDS

...in school, according to a panel that included Gates, U2 frontman Bono, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Gates, who later this year will step down as Microsoft Corp. chairman to concentrate full-time...

In this article: Bill Gates, Bono, Malaria, U.N., Poverty, Davos, AIDS, Fascism, Recession, and Leprosy

...are likely to draw attention. Other big names include UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor Tony Blair. Middle East peaces prospects...

In this article: Davos, U.S., E-mail, Recession, Inflation, Global warming, YouTube, Bill Gates, and Microsoft

...the more remarkable because it comes against a backdrop of financial crisis," Ban said. Ban, Gates and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown praised the broad coalition of government leaders, business executives, philanthropists, civil society...

In this article: United Nations, Bill Gates, Ban Ki-moon, Jeffrey Sachs, Africa, Millennium Summit, Deforestation, and Hiv/aids

...aid. "I hope the United States and other rich countries will continue to increase their aid, and when I meet with political leaders I encourage them to do so," Gates said, in particular praising Britain's Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Gates...

In this article: Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, Recession, Ina Fried, Apple, CNET News, and Tony Blair

...early 2000s. WEF HIGHLIGHTS 2006: The Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis (2006-2015) is launched by the Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and Bill Gates. 2005: An advisory board created...

In this article: Istanbul, Davos, Turkey, Africa, Central Asia, Corporate governance, Buoyancy, Climate change, and Yasser Arafat