Bill Gates forms new company

eWeek | at | by Mike

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has founded a new think tank to tackle complex technological and other issues. Despite having retired from the day-to-day business of Microsoft, Gates forms bgC3 LLC to focus on broad technological, scientific and societal issues. However, Gates? work on philanthropic issues remains his number one priority, according to reports.Todd Bishop at TechFlash has reported that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has founded a new company.

The new venture, known as bgC3 LLC, is a think tank, Bishop reports. Bishop, a former reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is now a writer for the Puget Sound Business Journal.