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☆ UK Says New Science Initiative to Work on Climate-Resilient Crops
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will announce a new science initiative to bring together work on developing climate-resilient crops as his government hosts a Global Food Security Summit in London on Monday. The summit, a joint initiative between Britain, Somalia, the UAE, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is due to be attended by representatives from more than 20 countries. "We must take action to address the underlying, and often unseen, causes of global food insecurity," Sunak said. Priorities will include mobilising international finance and harnessing innovation, Britain's Foreign Office said. ($1 = 0.8025 pounds)(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by David Holmes)

Persons: Rishi Sunak, Melinda Gates, Sunak, Kylie MacLellan, David Holmes Organizations: British, Food Security, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Melinda Gates Foundation Locations: London, Britain, Somalia, UAE, Ukraine, British, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Malawi

The total of $26,000 that WHO has provided to the victims equals about 1% of the $2 million, WHO-created “survivor assistance fund” for victims of sexual misconduct, primarily in Congo. “There is nothing we can do to make up for (sexual abuse and exploitation)," Gamhewage told the AP in an interview. The WHO has also helped defray medical costs for 17 children born as a result of sexual exploitation and abuse, she said. Gamhewage received $231 a day during her three-day trip to the Congolese capital Kinshasa, according to an internal travel claim. The U.N. health agency continues to struggle with holding perpetrators of sexual abuse and exploitation to account in Congo.

Persons: Gamhewage, didn't, Paula Donovan, “, ”, Donovan, ” Gamhewage, Alphonsine, ” Alphonsine, Melinda Gates, Denise, Krista Larson, Jamey Keaten Organizations: Health, WHO, The Associated Press, AP, Melinda Gates Foundation Locations: Congo, Gaya, Congolese, —, Beni, Kinshasa, Dakar, Senegal, Geneva

☆ Opinion | Are We Finally Ready for a Male Contraceptive?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

So the method the foundation is working on with a biotech company is a pill that needs to be taken only monthly. It contains the same types of hormones that are in a daily pill, so the same set of side effects would apply. Another hot spot for innovation is in injectables, like the Depo-Provera shot, Vogelsong said. ”Injectables aren’t very popular in the U.S., but they are the No. 1 method used in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa for a variety of reasons,” she noted.

Persons: Ed Cara, ”, Wang, Kirsten Vogelsong, Melinda Gates, Vogelsong, I’ve Organizations: Melinda Gates Foundation Locations: injectables, U.S, Saharan Africa

☆ This is the No. 1 tool for students to get ahead financially, says money coach: It's 'as simple as it sounds'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Nia Grant graduated from Clemson University in 2022 with about $30,000 — in her bank account, not in loans. Grant's road to post-grad prosperity started in high school, where she estimates she applied for between 60 and 70 scholarships. She won about a dozen, including awards from the Horatio Alger Foundation, UNCF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. With the cost of her education covered, Grant didn't feel she had to wait until graduation to start building her financial future. Resources vary from school to school, but one is available virtually everywhere and tends to be the most overlooked by students looking to get ahead, she says.

Persons: Nia Grant, Horatio Alger, Melinda Gates, Grant didn't, Grant, edu Organizations: Clemson University, Horatio Alger Foundation, UNCF, Melinda Gates Foundation, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Procter & Gamble, JPMorgan, Dow, Cash, CNBC

☆ The No. 1 'hidden' skill behind billionaire Bill Gates' success, says psychology expert—it works 'in any field'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Morgan Housel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 21: Bill Gates, Founder of Breakthrough Energy and Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks onstage at The New York Times Climate Forward Summit 2023 at The Times Center on September 21, 2023 in New York City. Optimism and pessimism are hard to deal with. Optimism and pessimism seem like conflicting mindsets, so it's more common for people to prefer one or the other. Successful people find a balance between pessimism and optimismBill Gates is a great example of how effective this hidden skill is. What Gates seems to get is that you can only be an optimism in the long run if you're pessimistic enough to survive the short run.

Persons: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Charlie Rose, Warren Buffett's, Gates Organizations: NEW, Breakthrough Energy, Melinda Gates Foundation, The New York, Climate, The Times Center, Microsoft Locations: New York City

☆ Fact Check: No Gates-sponsored mRNA ‘air vaccine’ approved for use in people
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The technique has not been approved for any use or testing in humans, according to the study’s senior author. However, a headline that reads, “Bill Gates mRNA 'Air Vaccine' Approved for Use Against Non-Consenting Humans” is circulating in the form of a screenshot on Facebook and messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The formulation developed by the Yale team has neither been approved for human trial nor is it awaiting approval, Saltzman added. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website, which documents Gates’ vaccine development work and investments, makes no mention of the Yale research. A nasal mRNA vaccine tested in mice by Yale researchers has not been approved for human testing, was not funded by Bill Gates and is not designed to work through the “air.”This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

Persons: Bill Gates, ”, Mark Saltzman, Saltzman, ” Saltzman, Gates, Melinda Gates, Read Organizations: Yale University, Reuters, Vaccine, Twitter, Goizueta, Biomedical Engineering, Yale’s School of Engineering, Applied Science, Yale, Melinda Gates Foundation, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Thomson

☆ Fact Check: Fact Check: FDA is not replacing salt with 'mRNA’ salt substitutes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Now he is trying to replace organic salt with a mRNA chemical laced inorganic synthetic salt substitute actually produced by the man himself Bill gates. Other ingredients in Morton salt substitute include fumaric acid, monocalcium phosphate and silicon dioxide. MRNA NOT AN INGREDIENTThe claim that common salt is being replaced with a “mRNA chemical laced inorganic synthetic salt substitute” is misleading. “In terms of how chemists use the words ‘organic’ and ‘inorganic’, both table salt (sodium chloride) and potassium chloride would be inorganic compounds as they lack carbon atoms." The FDA is not replacing salt with “mRNA fake salt.”This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

Persons: Bill Gates, Bill, ”, Morton, Christopher Simmons, Davis, ” Simmons, Melinda Gates, Gates, Vinod Khosla’s, Morton Salt, Read Organizations: U.S, Food, Drug Administration, Microsoft, Twitter, People’s, FDA, Gates, Reuters, Food Science, Technology, University of California, Melinda Gates Foundation, Khosla Ventures, Thomson

The two Africa-based vaccine manufacturers are receiving $5 million each in funding from the foundation, while another $10 million is earmarked for other companies that have not yet been named. Political Cartoons View All 1202 ImagesThe mRNA vaccine technology came to the forefront with the production of COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna. Those COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were fast-tracked through the regulatory process and granted emergency use authorization. The new vaccines under development in Africa face a far longer development timeline — anywhere from three to seven years. It has spent billions of dollars to vaccinate against polio, treat and prevent malaria and HIV and more recently advance vaccines for diseases like cholera.

Persons: Melinda Gates, Bill Gates, “, Dr, Amadou Sall, ” Sall, COVID, ” Jose Castillo, ___ Mark Carlson Organizations: Melinda Gates Foundation, Associated Press, Institut Pasteur, Quantoom Biosciences, Pfizer, Moderna, Gates Foundation Locations: DAKAR, Senegal, Africa, Dakar, South Africa, Belgium, Crimean, Congo, Nivelles

☆ Novo Nordisk's Wegovy bonanza looms large in Denmark
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Maggie Fick | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

COPENHAGEN, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The whirlwind success of weight-loss treatment Wegovy is providing a bonanza not just for its developer, Novo Nordisk (NOVOb.CO), but also for its home country of Denmark. Interviews with Danish economists, analysts, and executives at the Novo Nordisk Foundation which controls Novo highlight the benefits to the economy from jobs to private wealth - but also the potential pitfalls of relying on a single, outsized company. Record profits for Novo are projected to generate returns for the Foundation of more than $12 billion in coming years. Novo Nordisk added 3,500 jobs in Denmark in 2022, bringing the total in the country to 21,000 employees, out of 59,000 worldwide, a company spokesperson said. Before Wegovy, "we used to be kind of, 'Isn't Denmark the place where Stockholm is the capital?'"

Persons: Danes, Lars Skovgaard Andersen, Lars Christensen, Wegovy, Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, " Thomsen, Moller, Thomsen, Melinda Gates, Rasmus Kristian Feldthusen, Maggie Fick, Jacob Gronholt, Alexander Smith, Josephine Mason, Michele Gershberg, Catherine Evans Organizations: Novo Nordisk, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Danske Bank, Copenhagen Business School, Novo, Foundation, Reuters, Novo Holdings, Carlsberg, Maersk, U.S, Melinda Gates Foundation, UK's Wellcome Trust, Wegovy, University of Copenhagen, Nokia, Pedersen, Thomson Locations: COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Danish, Novo, Europe, North America, Asia, OUTGROWING DENMARK, Finland

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization authorized a second malaria vaccine on Monday, a decision that could offer countries a cheaper and a more readily available option than the world's first shot against the parasitic disease. “As a malaria researcher, I used to dream of the day we would have a safe and effective vaccine against malaria. Alister Craig, an emeritus professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, said he would recommend countries trying to get the GSK vaccine switch to the Oxford vaccine instead. Neither of the malaria vaccines stop transmission so immunization campaigns alone won’t be enough to stop epidemics. In a separate decision, WHO's expert group also authorized the dengue vaccine made by Takeda, which was previously approved by the European Union drug regulator.

Persons: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ” Tedros, Tedros, it’s, ”, John Johnson, ” Johnson, Melinda Gates, Alister Craig, Craig, Takeda, Jamey Keaten Organizations: World Health Organization, WHO, Oxford University, Serum Institute of India, Research, Oxford, GSK, Melinda Gates Foundation, Serum, Liverpool School, Tropical, European Union, Associated Press, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: Ghana, Burkina Faso, Africa, Oxford, Bangladesh, Geneva

☆ Bill Gates: 'Republicans for climate change action are gold'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"Republicans for climate change action are gold," said Bill Gates, the billionaire climate philanthropist and investor, on Thursday at the Climate Forward event in New York City. The number of Republicans convinced that responding to climate change is a priority has "got to be a number that we manage to increase over time," Gates said. That's because climate change mitigation and adaptation will require sustained investment and support from the public and private sector, Gates said. Almost eight in ten Democrats, 78%, consider climate change a major threat, up from 58% ten years ago. Only 23% of Republicans consider climate change a major threat, almost equivalent to the 22% of Republicans who considered climate change a major threat a decade ago.

Persons: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Gates, It's, António Guterres Organizations: Breakthrough Energy, Melinda Gates Foundation, The New York, Climate, The Times Center, Pew Research, Washington, Washington D.C, United, United Nations Locations: New York City, United States, Gates, Paris

NEW YORK (AP) — Inside the U.N.'s gates, world leaders use the spotlight to talk — to each other and the entire planet. Nonprofit organizations send their senior leaders to the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly at significant expense to make sure their voices are heard in the right rooms. It was one of some 40 events the Ford Foundation hosted connected to General Assembly week, flexing its power to convene. The sidelines of the General Assembly first began drawing major crowds in 2014, when a U.N. The framework, he said, helps groups “to focus on a pretty specific action that might feel small given the SDGs but still has impact.

Persons: ”, Elizabeth Cousens, ‘, ’ ”, Monica Aleman, She’ll, James Baldwin, Protesters, Keya Chatterjee, Chatterjee, Joe Biden, Antonio Guterres, Melinda Gates, Mark Suzman, ” Suzman, Atul Tandon, Zia Khan Organizations: Nonprofit, General, UN Foundation, Sustainable, Ford Foundation, Assembly, Climate Summit, Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates Foundation, Opportunity International, The Rockefeller Foundation, Brookings Institution, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: New York City, U.S, Manhattan, Washington, United States, China, India, Russia, United Kingdom, France, South Africa

☆ Climate Forward Live Event Discussing the Threats of a Rapidly Warming Planet
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Adam Pasick | The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

PinnedThe Times climate event will feature interviews and sessions with speakers including (clockwise from upper left) Ajay Banga, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Marie Kondo, Bill Gates, Michael R. Bloomberg and Ebony Twilley Martin. The Climate Forward live event is bringing together some of climate’s most vital newsmakers to share ideas, work through problems and answer tough questions about the threats presented by a rapidly warming planet. The former vice president noted that the United Nations had appointed a top oil executive, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, to lead this year’s global climate talks. “That’s just, like, taking the disguise off,” Mr. Gore said at The New York Times’s Climate Forward event in Manhattan. “It’s enough already.”Expert journalists from across The Times’s newsroom are providing critical analysis of the remarks by guests at the Climate Forward event, who include world leaders, activists, scientists and corporate executives.

Persons: Ajay Banga, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Marie Kondo, Bill Gates, Michael R, Ebony Twilley Martin, ”, Al Gore, Sultan Ahmed al, Jaber, “ That’s, ” Mr, Gore, “ They’ve, “, We’ll, Bill Gates Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Melinda Gates, Ajay Banga Ajay Banga, David Malpass Organizations: Bloomberg, United Nations, United Arab, The, Microsoft, Melinda Gates Foundation, Energy, World Bank, Mastercard Locations: New York City, United Arab Emirates, York, Manhattan, Banga

The Gates Foundation has been a major supporter of Unitaid, donating $50 million in each 2012 and 2017, according to the foundation's grant database. The two announced their divorce in 2021 but committed to continuing to work together at the foundation. I think we will overcome that because the U.S. has a lot to be proud on this one,” Gates said. Cumulatively, the results of that study, which the foundation funded, has advanced knowledge about the causes of infant mortality. The Gates Foundation was not alone in announcing new commitments to support progress toward the development goals.

Persons: Melinda Gates, Melinda French Gates, “ Nona, gesturing, Jennifer, Omakwu, ’ ”, Gates, Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Singer Bono, George W, Bush, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, French Gates, ” Gates, Eden Tadesse, Aidan Reilly, Ben Collier, James Kanoff, Ashu Martha Agbornyenty, There’s, ”, Clinton Organizations: Melinda Gates Foundation, General, UNFPA, Gates Foundation, Sustainable, President’s, AIDS Relief, U.S, Congress, Midwifery, IKEA Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative, Associated, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: New York, Ukraine, PEPFAR, U.S, South, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Vietnam, South Africa, Indonesia

☆ GE HealthCare gets $44 mln grant to develop AI-assisted ultrasound tech
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 18 (Reuters) - GE HealthCare Technologies Inc (GEHC.O) has received a grant of more than $44 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop AI-assisted ultrasound technology, the company said on Monday. The grant will facilitate development of AI-assisted ultrasound imaging auto-assessment applications and tools to help address maternal and fetal health and respiratory diseases. The X-ray and ultrasound machine maker added that the grant is aimed at expanding access to high quality care around the world with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries. Caption Health, acquired by GE HealthCare earlier this year, will design the technology to run across a range of ultrasound devices and probes, including lower-cost handheld devices. Reporting by Pratik Jain in Bengaluru; Editing by Dhanya Ann Thoppil and Shailesh KuberOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Melinda Gates, Pratik Jain, Dhanya Ann Thoppil Organizations: REUTERS, GE HealthCare Technologies Inc, Melinda Gates Foundation, GE HealthCare, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru

NEW YORK (AP) — The National 4-H Council is growing in a new direction – online – by launching its e-learning platform Clover with a collaboration with Netflix and its new movie “Spy Kids: Armageddon,” the organization announced Wednesday. The innovation, Bramble says, comes in the way the Clover platform engages with the students by using gamification and entertainment, which led to the collaboration with Netflix. “When you think of the intent behind ‘Spy Kids,’ those kids are tackling some of the world’s most pressing issues and they’re doing this through coding and gamification. “We feel that Clover can support a way to catch up, but it can’t do it alone. It’s so valuable to have an in-person program that goes along with it -- the mentoring aspect that comes with 4-H.

Persons: Jill Bramble, ” Bramble, ”, Bramble, Bob Hughes, Melinda Gates Foundation’s, ” Hughes, “, Clover Organizations: Netflix, H, Associated Press, Melinda Gates Foundation’s United States Program, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: Manhattan , New York, Manhattan , Kansas

It’s a scary day for moms, right?” French Gates said. Tragically, those solutions aren’t reaching families in the communities where mothers and kids need them most,” said Bill Gates and French Gates in the report’s introduction. Gates and French Gates also noted the increasing rates of maternal deaths in the U.S. and United Kingdom and the racial disparities in those deaths. French Gates spoke with outrage about the harrowing experience tennis star Serena Williams described after giving birth to her first daughter and suffering multiple complications, which endangered her life. It was almost like a slap in the face,” said French Gates.

Persons: — Melinda French Gates, Gates, Melinda Gates, Jennifer, Leila — Jennifer's, —, “, Rasa Izadnegahdar, ”, “ It’s, Bill Gates, French Gates, Mark Suzman, recommit, Suzman, Tom Kenyon, they’re, Izadnegahdar, there’s, ’ ”, Black, Serena Williams, Tori Bowie, aren’t, we’ve Organizations: Melinda Gates Foundation, Associated Press, Sustainable, United Nations, Child Health, World Health Organization, General Assembly, Gates Foundation, American Medical Association, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: U.S, French, Ukraine, Saharan Africa, South Asia, United Kingdom

☆ Bill Gates thought Elon Musk became 'super mean' after finding out Gates shorted Tesla stock
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Musk shot down Gates' attempts to talk about giving to charity after Gates shorted Tesla stock. "He was super mean to me, but he's super mean to so many people, so you can't take it too personally," Gates said about Musk. Speaking about this incident to Isaacson, Gates told the writer he even apologized to Musk. "Once he heard I'd shorted the stock, he was super mean to me, but he's super mean to so many people, so you can't take it too personally," Gates told Isaacson. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn 2022 alone, Gates contributed $5 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which was the largest single donation that year.

Persons: Gates, Walter Isaacson's, Elon, Bill Gates, Musk's Tesla, Walter Isaacson, Isaacson, Elon Musk, Musk, Tesla, I'd, —, Melinda Gates, Michael Bloomberg Organizations: CNBC, Service, Tesla, TED, Twitter, Melinda Gates Foundation Locations: Wall, Silicon, Gates

☆ The origin of Elon Musk’s feud with Bill Gates, according to Musk’s new biography
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Paul Glader | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The meeting went sideways, according to Walter Isaacson’s new biography, “Elon Musk,” which hits stores Tuesday. “Hey, I’d love to come see you and talk about philanthropy and climate,” Gates texted Musk in 2022, Isaacson wrote. “Most philanthropy was “bulls—,” Musk told Gates, estimating only 20 cents of each dollar made a difference that way. Gates could “do more good for climate change by investing in Tesla,” Musk said, according to Isaacson. When Gates sent documentation about his philanthropic work and followed up with a text to Musk, Musk asked if he was still holding a short bet against Tesla.

Persons: Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson’s, “ Elon Musk, Musk, Gates, “, Isaacson, Isaacson —, ” Gates, ” Musk, Melinda, Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Bloomberg, texted Isaacson Organizations: CNN, Elon, Microsoft, Melinda Gates Foundation, Tesla Locations: Austin , Texas, Washington , DC

☆ Join the Times Climate Event With Bill Gates, Marie Kondo and Others
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Climate change is an issue that stretches across borders, touching every facet of our lives. On Sept. 21, The New York Times will bring together newsmakers, including innovators, activists, scientists and policymakers, for an all-day event examining the actions needed to confront climate change. Signing up for the livestream will also give you an opportunity to connect with other online attendees on the messaging platform Slack. Each day will feature a different topic and guests, along with prompts from Times editorial staff. Details about the Slack channel and event schedule will be shared after registering.

Persons: Ajay Banga, Al Gore, United States Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Ebony Twilley Martin, Greenpeace USA Eleni Myrivili, Marie Kondo, Michael R, Bloomberg L.P, Bloomberg Philanthropies Robin Wall Kimmerer, David Gelles, Somini Sengupta, Kim Severson Organizations: New York Times, Times, World Bank, United, Breakthrough Energy, Greenpeace USA, Resilience, KonMari, Bloomberg Locations: United States

☆ Khosla Ventures backs effort to make orchards of lung-like material to absorb CO2 from air
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Spiritus has built a novel approach to direct air carbon capture that relies on a material that absorbs carbon dioxide passively. When the lung-like "fruit" have been collected from the carbon "orchard," they will be put in a container, where low heat will be applied to remove the carbon dioxide. That's important because while carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at record high levels, carbon dioxide is still diluted and makes up a relatively small percentage of the air. That third component — economical — is critical in the direct air carbon capture field, and is part of what drew Khosla Ventures to make its first direct air capture investment in Spiritus. "We're able to remove about 1,000 times more carbon dioxide than a forest can.

Persons: Charles Cadieu, Matt Lee, Spiritus, Lee, Lee hadn't, Cadieu, Melinda Gates, she's, Leonardo da Vinci, We've, Rajesh Swaminathan, Swaminathan, what's Organizations: Silicon, Khosla Ventures, Page One Ventures, CNBC, Los Alamos National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Melinda Gates Foundation, GE Healthcare, Yahoo, Ventures, U.S . Department of Energy Locations: Western U.S, Spiritus

☆ Bill Gates made a nearly $100 million bet on Bud Light
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Gates bought the stock around the time A-B reported earnings that fully encompassed the fallout from Bud Light’s partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Last month, A-B said that its US revenue fell 10% in the second quarter, hampered by falling Bud Light sales. A few weeks later, Modelo overtook Bud Light in sales at grocery and beer stores, according to NIQ data, marking the first time Modelo has ever beaten Bud Light on a year-to-date basis. However, the difference is slim with Modelo holding 8.34% share of dollars spent on beer vs. 8.28% for Bud Light through August 12. Gates, who has previously admitted that he’s “not a big beer drinker,” has bought other beer brands too.

Persons: Bud Light’s, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Gates, influencer Dylan Mulvaney, Bud, Bud Light, he’s, ” Organizations: New, New York CNN, Anheuser, Busch, Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, Revenue, Modelo, Bud Light, Heineken Holding Locations: New York, North America, Canada, United States

☆ Warren Buffett donates $27 mln Berkshire stock
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, pauses while playing bridge as part of the company annual meeting weekend in Omaha, Nebraska U.S. May 6, 2018. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo/File Photo/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 17 (Reuters) - Warren Buffett donated nearly $27 million of Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa.N) stock this week to an unnamed charity, the latest move in the billionaire investor's plan to give away his fortune. Berkshire disclosed Buffett's donation of 50 Class A shares in a Wednesday night filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Buffett still owns 218,237 Class A shares of Berkshire, for an approximately 15% stake in the Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate he has run since 1965. Berkshire owns several dozen businesses including the BNSF railroad, Geico car insurance and many energy, manufacturing and retail operations.

Persons: Warren Buffett, Rick Wilking, Berkshire Hathaway, Melinda Gates, Buffett, Jonathan Stempel, Diane Craft Organizations: Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Omaha , Nebraska U.S, REUTERS, U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, Melinda Gates Foundation, Buffett, Forbes, Berkshire, Apple, Thomson Locations: Omaha , Nebraska, Berkshire, New York

☆ Pfizer Group B strep vaccine for infants returns encouraging mid-stage trial results
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Annika Kim Constantino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Pfizer on Wednesday said its experimental vaccine targeting the potentially deadly bacterial disease Group B Streptococcus returned strong mid-stage clinical trial results, a promising step as the drug inches toward potential approval. Pfizer is among several drugmakers racing to develop the world's first shot targeting Group B strep disease, which is linked to nearly 150,000 infant deaths worldwide each year, especially in lower-income countries. Pfizer's single-dose shot generated antibodies that may provide infants with meaningful protection against the disease, according to the data released Wednesday from a phase two clinical trial. Pfizer's encouraging phase two trial results provide hope that maternal vaccination against the disease, also known as GBS, could help prevent thousands of cases in babies. The results will also help the company plan its phase three clinical trials on the shot, which are typically required before the FDA approves a drug.

Persons: Streptococcus, Melinda Gates Organizations: Pfizer, Drug Administration, FDA, Melinda Gates Foundation

☆ Fact Check-The Washington Post did not report Bill Gates has been arrested
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

(Advisory: This article includes links to photos and videos depicting death penalty scenes)The Washington Post did not publish a report earlier this month saying Bill Gates had been arrested. The Washington Post’s Public Relations Manager Savannah Stephens said in a July 13 email that no such story was published. Washington Post” (here). A search for articles related to Gates being arrested does not return any relevant results on The Washington Post site (tinyurl.com/35sucwh6). There is no evidence that The Washington Post published a report on Bill Gates being arrested for crimes against humanity.

Persons: Bill Gates, Gates, Savannah Stephens, retweets, Bill, Melinda Gates, Read Organizations: Washington Post, The Washington, Public, US Federal Marshals, Watch, . Washington Post, YouTube, Reuters Locations: The, Guantanamo, . Washington, U.S

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