Word: microsoft
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...field can be in excess of 50 hours by each race's end). Competitors range between 21 and 67 years of age and come from more than 130 countries. Often, families and groups of friends enter together. Sometimes, companies use the races as team-building exercises or charitable endeavors - Microsoft entered three top executives from their Seattle headquarters in this year's Gobi race, known as the Gobi March, to raise money for the Save the Children Foundation. But most, like 60-year-old American Robyn Metcalf, who has done two desert races, are there to "combine sports with...
...vast market with a growing middle class--and a government touchy about unflattering portrayals. To make the Mummy sequel, filmmakers had to submit scripts to the Chinese state co-producers. Western companies that embrace freedom of information on this side of the Pacific have acceded to Chinese censorship: Microsoft, Yahoo!, even Google--whose slogan, "Don't be evil," turned out not to be valid worldwide...
...variety of examples of how this is already taking place and how governments, foundations and regular folks can support this effort. He's the first to admit that this idea is still at a very early stage, but now that he has retired from his old day job at Microsoft, this is one of the areas to which he will be devoting his time, energy and money...
...happens, Gates' financial history has followed the Friedman philosophy more than his own. Gates founded Microsoft and ran it with legendary single-mindedness for three decades. There was not a lot of energy devoted to lifting up the world's poor. Now, having squeezed every drop out of capitalism, he is going to devote almost all his time and fortune to improving the state of the world. Even the skeptics tend to agree that the results of that redirected single-mindedness could be awesome...
...Conflict-of-interest note: I worked for Microsoft for seven years, and my wife Patty Stonesifer is a senior adviser to the Gates Foundation after 11 years...