Check Out The Absolutely Amazing Pile Of Super Expensive Toys Microsoft...
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen showed CBS's Lesley Stahl some of the amazing things you can buy with billions of dollars. The segment didn't make the television broadcast of "60 Minutes" last night,...
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10 Crazy Stories About Bill Gates From Paul Allen's New Book (MSFT)
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has a memoir called "Idea Man" coming out today. In it, he reveals some amazing stories about his friend Bill Gates. Early excerpts from the book portrayed Gates as a...
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Steve Jobs Was A Snarling Brute Who Humiliated People Just To Do It, Says...
Bill Gates isn't the only tech star given harsh treatment in Paul Allen's new memoir. Allen also had numerous run-ins with Steve Jobs in the early days of Microsoft, when the company started making...
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Tour Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen's Knockout Real Estate
By Rob Bear Paul Allen, the one-time partner of Bill Gates in the founding of Microsoft, has always, it seems, been a flamboyant spender. In 1988, just two years after the Microsoft IPO, he paid $70M...
View ArticleGoogle, Apple, Facebook, And More: Judge In Paul Allen Suit Deals With Crowd...
With more than a dozen lawyers looking on — representing Google, Apple, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook and other Internet titans — a federal judge in Seattle heard arguments Monday afternoon in the lawsuit...
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The Woz Slams Paul Allen As A Patent Troll (AAPL, MSFT)
Apple and Microsoft have battled it out on many fronts over the years, but now there's a new one: the battle of the lesser-known cofounders. In his keynote at the Embedded Systems Conference this...
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A Microsoft Co-Founder's $40 Billion Mistake* (MSFT, AOL)
Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen owned a huge portion of AOL stock back before AOL got huge. But then he sold it all in the 1990s. What did that stake ended up being worth? $40 billion. Whoops. This...
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Paul Allen Throws A Wild Brazilian Party (MSFT)
Last month, it looked like Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen was getting kind of serious. He released his memoir, "Idea Man," and took some public digs at Bill Gates on "60 Minutes." He also did a...
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BILL GATES: He Got The Big Stuff Right And Never Let Go
William H. Gates III isn't always the first to see the future. But when he finally zeroes in on what's important, his combination of vision, conviction, and stubborn tenacity make him unstoppable....
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The 15 Most Expensive Yachts In The World
There is arguably no greater symbol of wealth than an enormous, gleaming, luxurious yacht. Yachts are the ultimate toys for those who have out-earned the modes of common recreation. They offer...
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Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Is Selling His Private Island For $13.5 Million
Microsoft cofounder and billionaire tech investor Paul Allen is selling his 292-acre private island off the coast of Washington (via the Bornrich). The property, Allan Island, is named after a Navy...
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? What Happened To The People In Microsoft's Iconic 1978...
It's one of the most iconic photos in American business. A ragtag group of bearded weirdos assembled for a family portrait in Albuquerque. Usually, there's a question above the photo: "Would you have...
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Mick Jagger Has Been Recording New Tracks On Paul Allen's Megayacht
The recording session for the first album from Mick Jagger’s new supergroup SuperHeavy had to be top secret to foil music pirates and such, and apparently no recording studio on Earth was secure...
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Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Buys A $25 Million Penthouse Apartment In New...
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has just picked up the penthouse apartment of a luxury building on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the Observer reports. Allen reportedly paid $25 million for the pad,...
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Steve Ballmer Staged An Emotional Event With Bill Gates To Keep Employees...
Former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee has a new tell-all autobiography out, and he has some juicy tales about his former employers. According to CNET's Jay Greene, who pulled some of the best excerpts...
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Paul Allen Wants To Build The Biggest Airplane Ever To Launch Satellites Into...
Microsoft's co-founder, Paul Allen, is preparing to invest a ton of cash into a new spacecraft designed to launch satellites into space, WSJ reports. The cash will come from Allen's investment...
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Here Are The 10 Richest People In High Tech
Bloomberg has started ranking the richest people in the tech industry, and it's going to adjust the rankings daily based on the movement of stock prices and other assets. Not surprisingly, Bill Gates...
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Paul Allen Spends $500 Million To Find Out How The Brain Works
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen wants to know how the human brain works and he's spending big bucks to find out. Allen announced a $300 million donation to his research facility, the Allen Institute...
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AWOL Soldier Arrested For Trying To Defraud Paul Allen
A soldier on the Army's Absent Without Leave was arrested for attempting to use billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's bank account to make over $15,000 in purchases, as reported by the...
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Paul Allen Invests In A Massive Project To Make Wikipedia Better
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is backing the Wikidata project, which is part of the German chapter of the Wikimedia movement. Wikidata is a new project with a big goal. It wants to be a...
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