Paul Allen, Microsoft Co-Founder, Dead at 65
Paul Allen, the man who co-created Microsoft with Bill Gates, one of the largest and most impactful technology…
Sunken US Warship Found 76 Years After Infamous WWII Tragedy
A team of civilian explorers led by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has located the wreck of the USS Juneau, an American…
Paul Allen's Got Licks!
Legendary producer and arranger Quincy Jones has worked with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Michael Jackson, and he’s…
Paul Allen Shows Off the World's Largest Airplane for the First Time
You can’t be a Silicon Valley billionaire without having your own initiative to build a big-ass aircraft. Microsoft…
New Footage Shows Wreck Of Japanese Super Battleship Sunk In WWII
Last week, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced the discovery of the sunken Japanese super battleship Musashi.…
Over at our sister site Sploid, check out the first images of Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen's latest project: the…
One in four self-made American billionaires dropped out of college
Bloomberg crunched the numbers on "self-made" billionaires in the U.S. and found that about a quarter of them were col…
Bill Gates and Paul Allen Recreate Iconic 1981 Microsoft Photo
Back in 1981, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pulled of an audacious feat: they licensed MS-DOS to IBM,…
AWOL Soldier Tries To Steal the Identity of One of the World's Richest Men
The feds have locked up an AWOL soldier because he tried to use Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's identity to pay his…
This Insane Giant Mothership Will Launch Rockets Into Orbit
This is not a fantasy project. This is going to be real: a gigantic 385-foot wing span, 544-tonne plane powered by…
Paul Allen Wants Your Legacy Hardware
Paul Allen, Microsoft's "Idea Man," is an aficionado of relic computing devices—the older and more obscure, the better.…
Google+ to surpass 10 million users?
Holy social networks, Batman! An estimate from Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen suggests Google+ may hit the 10 million…
Government Powers Down SETI
SETI, the massive, international scientific effort to listen for life outside of earth, won't be finding that life…
Why Are Tech Founders Such Assholes?
In the past couple of weeks, the co-founders of Microsoft and Twitter have been attached to the same kinds of unsavory…
Paul Allen Dishes the Gossip on Bill Gates (and His Yacht) on 60 Minutes
Yesterday, a new book on Bill Gates and Microsoft hit store shelves—Idea Man. Only this one has been penned by…
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Felt Betrayed By Bill Gates
Starting a business with your friend? Not always a good idea. Just look at Paul Allen who co-founded Microsoft with…
What Happened to the People in Microsoft's Iconic 1978 Company Photo
It's one of the most iconic photos in American business. It's one of the most iconic photos in American business. But…
Apple and Google Tag-Teaming Paul Allen Over Patent Attack
You might recall Paul Allen's August bombardment of seemingly every tech company in the US over some rather tenuous…
The Patents Paul Allen's Suing the Whole World Over
If you haven't heard, Paul Allen, mostly famous for his early role at Microsoft, has sued basically the entire tech…
Does Paul Allen Suing The Entire Internet Prove Our Patent System's Broken?
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has launched a salvo of litigation over disputed patents, targeting Apple, Google, AOL,…