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This story is part of CNET at 25, celebrating a quarter century of industry tech and our role in telling you its story. The year 1995 could really be counted as year zero of the digital world we live in today. Amazon, Craigslist and eBay all launched. Microsoft took its first significant plunge into the …

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ Reddit AMA (ask me anything) post was the most upvoted in 2019, the massive forum site said in its year in review blog post on Wednesday.  In 2019, Reddit saw more than 430 million monthly active users (a 30% increase from the year before), 199 million posts, 1.7 billion comments and 32 billion upvotes. Gates’ AMA …

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had a long, complicated relationship and a rivalry that sometimes veered toward vicious. On Sunday, though, 63-year-old Gates had plenty of praise for the late Apple CEO, who died in 2011 of pancreatic cancer. Gates appeared Sunday’s episode of Fareed Zakaria’s GPS show, which focused on leadership. Zakaria, a CNN host, asked Gates about Jobs’ management …

Bill Gates has conceded that his “greatest mistake ever” was failing to put Microsoft in Android’s position as the world’s biggest “non-Apple” mobile operating system. The Microsoft co-founder was reflecting on the era when the market was shifting toward mobile, in an interview at venture capital firm Village Global. “In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. …

When you use Yelp for restaurant recommendations or TripAdvisor for places to see, you’re often putting the fate of your travel or dining experience in the hands of a stranger. Likewise is a new app that gathers recommendations from people you know or trust. And these recommendations aren’t limited to one thing. They can be someone’s favorite books, movies, TV …

Now playing: Watch this: CNET does Reddit Secret Santa 3:12 Jason Parker/CNET Reddit’s gift exchanges are some of the biggest on the internet. Celebrities like Bill Gates, Bear Grylls and Stephen Colbert have all been a part of Reddit’s Secret Santa exchange in the past. Some CNET staffers have also been lucky recipients of gifts from the community. Senior Editor …

Nine hundred million comments and 12 billion upvotes later, Reddit has posted its best-of lists for 2017. The fourth-most visited site on the internet says its most upvoted post was one called “The Senate. Upvote this so that people see it when they Google ‘The Senate’.” The second-ranking post, “Private Internet Access, a VPN provider, takes out a full page …

If you ask Google “Is Hamilton a good musical?” it will send back a link to Quora, the question-and-answer service, where people ask that same question. The next link, a story published in Slate last year, is an interview with a critic who argues why the Pulitzer-, Grammy- and Tony-winning musical isn’t revolutionary (their pun, not ours). Microsoft thinks it can …

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. And so he decided to browse fast. screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET At what point does corporate loyalty break and honesty take over?  I’m moved to finding the answer after viewing (a small portion of) a Microsoft presentation called “Datacenter Transformation. Migrating Apps, Workloads and Data …

Three months ago, Jeff Bezos was for a brief moment the world’s richest person. This time, Amazon’s CEO and founder may get to keep that title for a little longer. On Friday, the online retailing giant’s stock shot up a whopping 13 percent, a huge amount for such a large company, after Amazon easily outpaced its third-quarter earnings expectations. That surge …