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	<title>Gigaom Search &#187; People &#187; Bill Gates</title>
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		<title>Bill Gates, energy execs, once again call for tripling of energy research funding</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/02/25/bill-gates-energy-execs-once-again-call-for-tripling-of-energy-research-funding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katie Fehrenbacher]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost five years ago a group of business leaders, including Bill Gates, GE CEO Jeff Immelt and venture capitalist John Doerr, called for a massive increase in U.S. government funding for&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Gates wants to tackle mobile banking, but not with bitcoin</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/22/bill-gates-wants-to-tackle-mobile-banking-but-not-with-bitcoin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill and Melinda Gates' to-do list will probably put yours to shame. This year, in the Gates Foundation annual letter, the duo outlined their long-term, 15-year roadmap for the challenges that&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s no Silicon Valley, but Boston&#8217;s getting perkier for startups</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/04/its-no-silicon-valley-but-bostons-getting-perkier-for-startups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The greater Boston-Cambridge area has no problem attracting bright young people from all over the world to its colleges and universities. But it has well-documented issues keeping the best-and-brightest local when they&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Will Change.org’s new funding compromise its mission?</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/12/09/will-change-orgs-new-funding-compromise-its-mission/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/12/09/will-change-orgs-new-funding-compromise-its-mission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carmel DeAmicis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Petition website Change.org has raised a $25 million Series C round in a rather unusual way. Instead of finding institutional investment firms, Change.org's new funding comes from socially conscious individuals (and&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Startup Aquion Energy shows off the next generation of its battery for solar and the grid</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/10/21/startup-aquion-energy-shows-off-the-next-generation-of-its-battery-for-solar-the-grid/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/10/21/startup-aquion-energy-shows-off-the-next-generation-of-its-battery-for-solar-the-grid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katie Fehrenbacher]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Startup Aquion Energy was one of the first of its competitors to get a factory up and running. Now it's producing the second generation of its battery.]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Impossible Foods, another VC-backed veggie meat startup</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/10/08/meet-impossible-foods-another-vc-backed-veggie-meat-startup/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/10/08/meet-impossible-foods-another-vc-backed-veggie-meat-startup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Katie Fehrenbacher]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of new plant meat innovations out there. But this one has created "plant blood," was founded by a Stanford biochemist and has raised $75 million from VCs.]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle CEO changes &#8212; laying out the conspiracy theories</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/09/21/oracle-ceo-changes-laying-out-the-conspiracy-theories/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/09/21/oracle-ceo-changes-laying-out-the-conspiracy-theories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2014 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week in cloud: Oracle CEO change bombshell-that-may-not-be-a-bombshell overshadowed a week that also brought more OpenStack cloud M&#38;A.]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft layoffs part deux: Coming soon</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/09/17/microsoft-layoffs-part-deux-coming-soon/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/09/17/microsoft-layoffs-part-deux-coming-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Microsoft is going to finish up promised layoffs on Thursday as it continues to reshape its board of directors.]]></description>
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		<title>The Ice Bucket challenge goes viral in Asia with the help of Weibo, China&#8217;s Twitter</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/08/28/the-ice-bucket-challenge-goes-viral-in-asia-with-the-help-of-weibo-chinas-twitter/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/08/28/the-ice-bucket-challenge-goes-viral-in-asia-with-the-help-of-weibo-chinas-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carmel DeAmicis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Twitter and Facebook blocked in China, the Ice Bucket Challenge is still managing to go viral, with the help of Chinese social network Weibo.]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Ballmer resigns from Microsoft&#8217;s board of directors</title>
		<link>http://research.gigaom.com/2014/08/steve-ballmer-resigns-from-microsofts-board-of-directors/</link>
		<comments>http://research.gigaom.com/2014/08/steve-ballmer-resigns-from-microsofts-board-of-directors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stowe Boyd]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Ballmer has stepped down from Microsoft's board, just about six months after Satya Nadella's ascent into the CEO role. Considering that Nadella has scrapped Ballmer's vision for Microsoft as a&#8230;]]></description>
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