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Paul Allen to fund alien research
News In Silicon Valley Paul Allen is best known for two things: his place among the multimillionaires, and his investments, sometimes ill-inspired, in various startups. Along with Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's director of research, Allen has donated...
[August 9, 2000, 12:04]
News Burst: Paul Allen to invest $54m (£33m) in ZDTV
News The investment, which will make Vulcan Ventures a one-third partner in ZDTV, is part of the company's "wired world" strategy, according to a statement from Vulcan Ventures officials. Ziff-Davis officials said ZDTV is expected to reach 9 million U.S...
[November 17, 1998, 16:56]
Microsoft co-founder hits investment slump
News Billionaire technocrat Paul Allen wants to build companies that promote his vision of a "wired world," but the sour economy has pulled the plug on many of his investments. Investors follow Paul Allen the same way people might follow Bill Gates...
[May 13, 2002, 15:48]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Paul Allen - co-founder of Microsoft - has just given Oxford University three hundred grand to launch an online post graduate degree course, an American company has raised $52 million to make spherical processors, and a Netscape founder is...
[July 27, 1998, 8:59]
The Day Ahead: Go2Net poised to benefit from the dot-com shakeout
News The reason for the strength is clear -- Go2Net has plenty of cash from its partnership with Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures and a decent stock currency. What does a high-profile partnership with Paul Allen, plans to roll-out a broadband portal this...
[April 18, 2000, 12:13]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It transpires that Paul Allen -- co-founder of Microsoft -- is fond of popping over to see Dave Stewart, him off the Eurythmics. Paul Allen just likes hanging out and playing guitar with one of his heros, but of course gets to meet various...
[September 24, 2004, 18:15]
Dave Stewart says let Napster rock on
News Stewart also said he was working with Allen to develop ways for artists to get their material online. To demonstrate what types of less mainstream projects artists might find a place for on the Internet, Stewart showed home video footage of himself...
[October 12, 2000, 16:21]
Vulcan gets a grip on mini-PCs
News The investment company, set up and funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is showing at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a design for a shrunken notebook PC that would weigh about half a kilo and rest comfortably in two hands.
[January 9, 2003, 11:34]
I remain to be convinced
Talkback .of course I meant Steve Ballmer, not Paul Allen :)
[December 23, 2006, 11:33]
The minicomputer returns to a Web site near you
News Now they have found another purpose, as toys for ex-Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen. Allen so loves the PDP series, which made its debut in the 1960s, that he has set up a Web site to complement his own personal and historic collection of systems.
[January 10, 2006, 16:30]
Microsoft millionaire opens wallet for ZigBee start-up
News The funding round was led by Venture Capital, the investment group of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Ember, a start-up that is developing chips for ZigBee -- the low-cost, low-power wireless networking standard -- received $25m in venture capital...
[October 1, 2004, 14:20]
Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version
Downloads Famous American Directors: A-Z ListWoody Allen Robert Altman Hal Ashby Busby Berkeley Peter Bogdanovich Frank Borzage James L. Famous American Actors: A-Z List Fred Astaire Lauren Bacall John Barrymore Humphrey Bogart Charles Boyer Marlon Brando...
[September 27, 2007, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist and professional investor, also likes space. This time, though, it's full speed ahead -- the Allen Telescope Array (or ATA) will have 350 dishes spread across the North Californian countryside.
[March 26, 2004, 16:15]
Tech billionaires a little less wealthy
News Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who has also long ranked near the top of the survey, ranked fourth this year. Allen's net worth slipped to $25.2bn from $30.4bn. Allen is now chairman of cable company Charter Communications and has a VC firm...
[March 1, 2002, 16:40]
Microsoft tips nod at Wink
News For Wink, the Microsoft alliance -- following a recent investment from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's firm Vulcan Ventures -- is an important validation of its plans. One of the things that's plagued interactive TV for years now is that...
[June 7, 1999, 10:13]
100 Richest People in the World - Illustrated history of their life and wealth
Downloads Paul Allen $18 billion, US (Microsoft)20. Learn more about 100 Richest People in the World - Top 100 Billionaires of 2007. Illustrated history of their life and wealth. FREE 5 top billionaires in the trial version.Features Illustrated with...
[March 14, 2007, 7:00]
Rank of tech billionaires dwindled in 2000
News The company's troubles also cut into the bank accounts of Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Allen lost some $40bn as Microsoft shares fell from $116.75 at the beginning of the year to about $44 last week, a 61 percent slide.
[January 2, 2001, 13:47]
Wattpad
Downloads Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.and more classics and bestsellers from Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Joseph Conrad, Victor Hugo, Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen.
[May 9, 2007, 8:00]
Bill Gates still world's wealthiest
News Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was at number six with $22bn, according to Forbes, while Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, had an estimated $13.6bn, putting him at number 24 on the list. Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, has topped the...
[March 13, 2006, 14:05]
Bill Gates keeps wealthiest crown
News Co-founder Paul Allen, worth $22.5bn, again placed third, while chief executive Steve Ballmer, valued at $14bn, nabbed the number 11 standing. Tech industry billionaires loomed large in Forbes' latest list of the wealthiest people in the United...
[September 26, 2005, 10:20]
