Gates Foundation sold $1B worth of Berkshire stock last quarter — it’s still up $500M Gates' fund is still 40% Berkshire Gates vs. Buffett: Whose portfolio is bigger? For what it’s worth, Berkshire Hathaway’s stock portfolios is huge compared to the Gates Foundation’s, with more than $202 billion in assets under management according to itslatest SEC disclosure. That’s likely by design. The Foundation has generally kept its assets under management at around $20 billion over the past five years, as it presumably sells stock to fund charitable endeavours....

If havingGoogle+notifications in Gmail wasn’t distracting enough, how about putting them in the Windows system tray? WithGClientis the first in what will probably be a long line of desktop clients for Google+, that’s exactly what you can do. But it does a lot more than that. Not only do you get notifications, you can access almost all of Google+’s features. In order to use GClient, you will have to submit your email address to receive a free unlock code, which you will receive immediately....

I admire Harley-Davidson’s motorcycles as much as the next person, but the truth is I’m totally incapable of riding one. So when the iconic brand and its affiliated company,Serial 1 Cycle,released theirebikes back in November 2020, I got very excited that I’d be able to try at least one Harley-Davidson vehicle. Yet again, I don’t live in the US nor in Germany, so there was no way to get my hands on it — which was a crying shame....

TNW Quick Hit: The popular Gears of War franchise has lost none of its commercial viability. News broke today that demonstrates this: Gears of War 3 has stacked up some 1 million pre-orders thus far, making it,according to Major Nelson, the “Fastest Pre-Ordered Title in Platform History.” Eat your heart out, Halo. But that is perhaps not the most impressive single statistic. The beta for the game has been a crushing success on its own....

Silicon Valley is like no other job market in the world. While the American economy staggers forward, and politicians and private industry alike are looking for any way to create new jobs, there’s a full-on talent war raging in the Bay Area, and in high tech clusters throughout the country. As our lives become increasingly digital, we need developers and software engineers to make our dreams come to life in code....