World and Pakistan Lost Talented Arfa Karim, Youngest MCP

The World's Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Arfa Karim from Pakistan has passed away and lost the battle of life at the age of sixteen (16), after remaining admitted at Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Lahore Pakistan on Saturday Night (14-Jan-2012), she breathed her last after being in coma for over 26 days at CMH Lahore (Pakistan). Arfa Karim had earned the Microsoft Certification at the age of Nine (9) and she died at the age of sixteen (16).

Arifa Karim remained in intensive care at Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Lahore after suffering an epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest a few weeks ago that caused severe heart and brain damage. This ultimately led to a heart attack. She had been on life support. Arfa Karim suffered cardiac arrest on December 22, and had been under treatment at CMH since. Microsoft had also arranged a team which was following her case closely along with Pakistani doctors. After battling for life for 26 days, one of Pakistan's brightest talent left this world for good.

Arfa Karim was born in 1995 and she achieved the honor of World�s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional when she was only 9 years old in 2004. Bill Gates, the Chairman of Microsoft, invited Arfa to visit the Microsoft Headquarters in the USA in the age of 10 only. Arfa Karim was also certified for flying a plane at a flying club in Dubai at the age of 10. Arfa was also honored by the Pakistan Government for the Fatima Jinnah Gold Medal in the field of Science and Technology and she had also got the Youth Award in 2005 from Pakistan Government and Arfa has also won the Presidential Award for Pride of Performance.

Pakistan and World has lost the talented girl and May her soul Rest in Peace (R.I.P.). Her funeral will be offered in native city Faisalabad, Pakistan.

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10 Facts and Personal Details About Bill Gates - Success Story Revealed

As we know Microsoft's founder "Bill Gates" is one of the powerful personality of I.T. Industry today and most of the people wants to be like him. Many people know the Success Story of Bill Gates as Microsoft Chairman, but no one knows the actual facts about his personal and professional life. Microsoft's founder Bill Gates (the world's second-richest person) has revealed some personal details in interview with the Daily Mail which you have never heard before.

In interview with Daily Mail, Bill Gates has shared some of the secret which mostly people are not aware with. These facts are the true reason behind his success, So today in TechGlobeX we will tell you 10 Facts and Personal Details about Bill Gates which you should have to know and aware of.

10 Facts and Personal Details About Bill Gates, Success Story:

1. His kids like to tease him by singing the song "Billionaire" by Travie McCoy and Bruno Mars.
2. He's now given $28 billion to charity.
3. His three children, currently aged 15, 12 and nine, will reportedly inherit $10 million each (although Gates wouldn't disclose that amount in the interview), a slender sliver of his $56 billion net worth, because Gates says, "I don't think that amount of money would be good for them."
4. Did U2 star Bono invite Gates backstage when U2 was performing in Seattle? Not necessary, because Bono was staying at Bill's house that night.
5. Now dedicating his career to his $37.1 billion charitable foundation, Gates says when asked if he'll return to Microsoft full-time: "No. I'm part-time involved. But this is my job now."
6. Why try to cure malaria instead of cancer? Says Gates, "The world is putting massive amounts into cancer, so my wealth would have had a meaningless impact on that."
7. He haggles for good prices on vaccines: "We are super-smart about what we pay. We get price reductions. We can track how many kids get the vaccines."
8. People in Third World countries have no idea who he is. "They don't know who I am, because it doesn't relate to their world. I went to one place with the chief minister and someone said, 'Who is this guy?', and the chief minister said, 'This is a white-skinned guy I brought with me.'"
9. He has a Twitter account, but had a problem with Facebook: "... Because the friend requests got out of hand."
10. And the secret: Gates inadvertently revealed that his friend, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, is engaged to longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan. During the interview, Gates was talking about Zuckerberg and referred to Chan as Mark's "fianc�e Priscilla." Oops.

"Facebook's head of communications Elliot Schrage suggested that Bill Gates was mistaken. 'If [Mark is engaged, Bill Gates] knows something I don't know. Gates's communications guy just wrote to apologize for the misunderstanding.'"

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