Vienna valued music; it got Mozart. We value technology; we got Mark Zuckerberg. Author Eric Weiner explains how place and culture shape the rise of geniuses.
At a private dinner in a lavish setting in China, billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet tried to convince newly rich Chinese people to give away more money.
US moguls Bill Gates and Warren Buffett hosted a private dinner in Beijing on Wednesday for some of China's newly rich to talk about giving their money away. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more from the BBC's Michael Bristow.
More than 30 billionaires have agreed to donate at least half their fortunes to charity; the list was made public yesterday. The New York Times' Louise Story, has the details of this new venture by some of the country's richest people.
Everyone seems to have an idea about how to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico these days. Takeaway listeners join the fray with some of their proposals, including cameos by Bill Gates and Samantha Bee.
Forbes Magazine has released its new list of the world's biggest billionaires. Number one is Carlos Slim Helú, a self-made telecom mogul from Mexico. Slim, worth $53.5 billion, is the first man from a developing country to top the list.
Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place, has a bold plan involving the creation of the infrastructure necessary to support electric vehicles.
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Michael Brook, editor of the technology magazine T3, about some of the predictions made over the years about technology. Some came true...but others were way off the mark.
Bill Gates is officially stepping down as head of Microsoft today to devote himself full-time to his work as a philanthropist, but first we get some snapshots from around the world of what the people think of when they hear the name Bill Gates.
Forbes magazine released its annual list of billionaires, and there are 226 NEW billionaires this year -- and nearly a third of are from Russia, China, and India, as Anchor Lisa Mullins has details.