TNW Quick Hit: In a video interview with the BBC that TNW has brieflycovered before, Microsoft’s Chairman Bill Gates scoffed at Apple’s market valuation thatnow exceeds Microsoft’s figure. The question arose in a discussion about the tailoring of devices to specific consumer scenarios. The interviewer said that: “Well, it [Microsoft] has to [tailor], and right now that market clearly doesn’t believe Microsoft is in the best position to do that. I mean, look at valuations, you know, to relative, since you walked away from day to day management – [the] valuation of Apple, compared to Microsoft, you know, the graph goes like this [makes crossing gesture]....

Forbes will be releasing its 2011 billionaires list on Wednesday and there is no question thatBill Gates,Warren BuffettandCarlos Slim, the trio who have topped the list for the past five years, will make an appearance yet again. It is reported however that Bill Gates, who was overtaken last year by Mexican Businessman Slim, does not intend to reclaim the number one spot because he lost for a valiant reason: by giving away billions to his charitable foundation....

In 1995 most of us couldn’t see much of where we are today. Bill Gates, however, could. In an internal memo, Gates highlights some of the technologies that would become important, as well as many others that we haven’t seen yet but might. Some of his notable predictions are listed here, and the full PDF is embedded below: The vision of the future In the next 20 years the improvement in computer power will be outpaced by the exponential improvements in communications networks....

In case you missed thehuge newsearlier today,Twitterhas suspended a few notable mobile clients from its service. Chief among them from what we can tell by the reaction, is UberTwitter. While Twitter had mentioned the violations, the mentions were not directed toward any one application: Today we suspended several applications, including UberTwitter, twidroyd and UberCurrent, which have violated Twitter policies and trademarks in a variety of ways. These violations include, but aren’t limited to, a privacy issue with private Direct Messages longer than 140 characters, trademark infringement, and changing the content of users’ Tweets in order to make money....

In the past two months after making it into the final round atTechCrunch Disrupt in NYC,BillGuard, has been nose to the grindstone with beta testing. Launched in April 2010, BillGuard is the world’s first people-powered antivirus system for bills. BillGuard’s predictive algorithms alert users of unwanted charges such as hidden fees, billing errors, scams and fraud on credit card bills. It also alerts you when a similar charge on your credit card has been flagged by others or is complained about on the web....