IBM
Jun 27 2008, Sharmila Chakravorty

Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, who more than anyone else is credited with introducing computers into homes and offices worldwide, clocks off from his final day at the office Friday after 33 years.

Gates, who Fortune magazine reports has an...

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Nicholas M. Donofrio, executive vice president of innovation and technology at IBM, speaks at a conference called “America’s Competitiveness: Hispanic Participation in Technology Careers” at the IBM Palisades Executive Conference Center in Palisades,...