Lisa Stiffler
Writer at GeekWire
Loves journalism -- the interviews, telling stories, playing with words, crunching data -- and is currently writing for GeekWire and others.
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geekwire.com | Lisa Stiffler
Former Meta and Time Warner exec Mark D’Arcy is joining Microsoft as a corporate vice president working on the tech giant’s consumer AI products. D’Arcy is the new global creative director for Microsoft AI, reporting to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. D’Arcy spent more than a decade at Meta in creative and marketing leadership roles. He was at Time Warner for nearly seven years as chief creative officer and later president.
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geekwire.com | Lisa Stiffler
The Gates Foundation celebrated its 25th anniversary today with a talk and Q&A featuring co-founder Bill Gates, who shared that he would be pouring $200 billion, nearly all of his wealth, into the philanthropy and that the organization would disperse all of its funds over the next two decades. On a small stage before invited guests at New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Gates presented a history of the world’s largest philanthropy and shared its progress in global health, education and agriculture.
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geekwire.com | Lisa Stiffler
As the Gates Foundation today announced that the 25-year-old global philanthropy will sunset in another two decades, co-founder Melinda French Gates weighed in on the influential organization’s legacy.
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geekwire.com | Lisa Stiffler
Bill Gates today announced plans to give away $200 billion — nearly all of his wealth — over the next two decades through the Gates Foundation, an organization focused on global health and other social initiatives. The foundation, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, will sunset its operations by 2045. The philanthropy has disbursed $100 million since its founding. “There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people.
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geekwire.com | Lisa Stiffler
Microsoft signed a deal to protect a swath of Washington forest that’s bigger than the city of Seattle as a strategy for shrinking its carbon footprint. The partnership with EFM will support climate friendly forestry practices on 68,000 recently acquired acres on the Olympic Peninsula, which is known for its towering temperate rainforests. The deal will provide Microsoft with 700,000 carbon credits over the next decade.
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