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Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist and owner of the Seattle Seahawks, Paul Allen, passed away earlier today. He had been diagnosed with cancer, and was being treated for the past month.

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, founded by Microsoft's Paul Allen in 2014, has announced the Project Alexandria, which wants to develop common sense for artificial intelligence.

Bill and Melinda Gates have given $1 million to a Washington group attempting to create a new state gun safety law, and former Microsoft leaders have also donated hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The head of the financial firm that handles the money of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen said this week the company should consider spinning off its consumer businesses, including Xbox.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will release his first studio album, Everywhere At Once, with his band Paul Allen and the Underthinkers on August 6th, featuring a number of well known guest artists.

The Sundowner Motel in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Bill Gates and Paul Allen first formed Microsoft in the mid-1970s, is being redeveloped after closing in 2009.

Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen posted up a new photo of himself with his fellow co-founder Bill Gates on Twitter which recreates an image of the two men that was originally taken in 1981.

Resumes, we all have them and they represent a snapshot of your professional career at single point in time and if you are wondering what Bill Gates' resume looked like in 1974, make the jump.

Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, will open up a new investment office in the Silicon Valley area of California, Vulcan Capital, that will put its money in Internet and technology companies.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen wrote in a post on his official website that he is "excited about Windows 8" but also found that some parts of the OS are "puzzling."

A plaque that was put up in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2006 to mark the place where Microsoft first launched has now been ripped off and stolen from its location.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was the victim of an AWOL US Army soldier who managed to gain access to one of Allen's bank accounts. The soldier was arrested for the crime earlier this month.

This weekend a number of media outlets, including us, reported that the number of users on Google's new social networking service Google+ leaned heavily towards the male gender. The info came from two third party...

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen is accredited with a shocking investment error in the early 90s that ended up costing him a staggering $40 billion, as mentioned in his memoir Idea Man. Revealed through...

Call it the war of co-founders of two of today's technology giants, if you will between Steve Wozniak, Apple's colourful and often quirky co-founder, and Paul Allen, Bill Gates' BASIC-coding roommate at Harvard. Wozniak has...

Reuters is reporting that a helicopter from the megayacht Octopus, owned by Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen, has made an emergency landing on water in Argentina's far south on Monday, but there were no injuries, the...

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has sued Apple, Facebook, Google and eight other companies for infringing on his patents, according to the Wall Street Journal. The patents, filed over a decade ago, are not targeting major...

Ed Roberts, one of the first pioneers of the personal computer, founder of MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems), and developer of the Altair computer, died Thursday at his home in Georgia, as reported by...