Gates Unleashes The Mosquitoes


	Gates Unleashes The Mosquitoes

Matthew Herper

2-5-2009 12:17 PM

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Dan Frommer at Silicon Alley Insider reports...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/68f210b3-1175-4e59-b63b-c3bf51038689/C6C3B5AF-7133-4690-B031-8A660B4B4582/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquitoes-on-rich-ted-crowd" href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquitoes-on-rich-ted-crowd" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alleyinsider.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquitoes-on-rich-ted-crowd"><P><IMG width="320" height="222" border="0" title="bill-gates-mosquito.jpg" alt="bill-gates-mosquito.jpg" src="http://static.10gen.com/alleyinsider.com/~~/f?id=498a007114b9b96a002c67cb&maxX=320&maxY=222" class="float_right" />Bill Gates seems to be enjoying his semi-retirement.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquitoes-on-rich-ted-crowd"><P>At the <A href="http://www.ted.com/">TED<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.66.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> technology conference in California, Microsoft's (MSFT) Chairman just let a bunch of live mosquitoes go into the audience.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquitoes-on-rich-ted-crowd"><P>From Twitter, we gather that Bill was talking about malaria prevention, one of the causes his <A href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/topics/Pages/malaria.aspx">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is pushing<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.66.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>. <SPAN class="msgtxt en"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquitoes-on-rich-ted-crowd"><P>We like eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's <A href="http://twitter.com/pierre/statuses/1177480483">reaction<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.66.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> the best: "<SPAN class="status-body"><SPAN class="entry-content">That's it, I'm not sitting up front anymore."</SPAN></SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C6C3B5AF-7133-4690-B031-8A660B4B4582/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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