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Ever wanted to tell Bill Gates to “eat shit”? Well, you’re too late.
Simon Cowell and Will.i.am planning "X-Factor for tech"
Simon Cowell and Will.i.am are said to be planning a new show, described as "X-Factor for Tech". Presumably some sort of cross between Dragon's Den and The Apprentice, the show will see the music mogul and popstar on the hunt…
Bill Gates just bought a load of sh*t…
Bill Gates just bought a whole load of poo. No, the ex-Microsoft boss hasn't re-invested in the Kin phone range. Instead, it's all part of a charity venture from the one-time tech figurehead turned philanthropist. His charity, The Bill and…
The 10 Richest People In Tech – Zuckerberg, Gates, Dell and more!
As if the fact was ever in any doubt, there's plenty of green to be made in technology, as proved by the stratospheric heights hit by the Facebook IPO, seeing the company valued at $104 billion. From bedroom start-up to…
VIDEO: Steve Jobs Story – When the Apple maestro met Buzz and Woody
We here at Tech Digest consider ourselves pretty well versed when it comes to the life and times of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who announced his resignation from his long-standing position yesterday. But after watching the above video,…
Microsoft's Paul Allen: Working with Bill Gates was like "being in hell"
Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft is quite the eccentric, often compared to the reclusive Howard Hughes. His enormous wealth has funded no end of bachelor fantasies (including owning his own private space rocket and jamming with the Rolling…
Facebook's Zuckerberg to give away over half his $6.9 billion wealth
Following in the footsteps of the philanphropic work of other tech billionaire Bill Gates, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that he is to give away over half of his $6.9 billion wealth to charity either before or following his…
The Apple iPad: Bill Gates gives his two cents, unsurprisingly underwhelmed
You can rest assured that Apple's latest iPad venture will sell well enough to justify itself, but ask almost anyone who's been following the tablet what they think of it and you'll likely get a shrug of the shoulders and…
Bill Gates joins Twitter
The world's richest man and founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates has finally joined Twitter. With a nod to his programming roots, he kicked off proceedings with a first tweet of "hello world". There have been plenty of fake accounts set…
Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information leading to capture of Conficker worm virus creator
If you happen to inhabit the same deadly underground hacking world (forum) as the creator of the “Conficker” virus that’s been wreaking havoc on PCs since last October and even left France vulnerable to aerial invasion, you might be in luck.
Microsoft has put up a $250,000 reward for information leading the the capture of the creator of the worm/virus, hoping that some of the man’s internet friends might be a bit keen on grassing him up and bringing him to justice…
