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Tim Schafer, the famous games designer behind classic adventure titles like Grim Fandango or Full Throttle, decided to seek out money for the next game made by his studio, Double Fine, by asking for donations on popular website Kickstarter. Fans quickly answered his call and, in less than 24 hours, more than $400,000... |
9 February 2012
07:17 GMT |
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Holidays are usually great occasions to waste more than we actually consume. To make sure that landfills will stay clean during this time of the year, NRDC offers a great guide for a minimal amount of holiday waste.
NRDC officials indicate that almost everything can be reused or recycled and leftovers do not make a... |
27 December 2011
04:27 GMT |
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This is definitely the best time of the year to be generous and worry about the fate of misfortunate people. Google is fully aware of this, since it announced its eagerness to offer some substantial grants to boost education, favor larger access to technology and help abolish modern slavery.
The company is willing t... |
15 December 2011
03:38 GMT |
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A cute cat suffering from a rare anomaly can change the fate of the The Milwaukee Animal Rescue Center in Greendale. Cute Daniel has 26 toes and this does not stop it from becoming famous worldwide. The shelter encourages people do donate $26 (€19.4) in its honor, to make sure the facility will stay open an... |
9 December 2011
11:16 GMT |
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Most of the eco-conscious people from Maryland are far from being pleased with what Miss Maryland is wearing. The prize she obtained after winning the pageant is an expensive, luxurious fur coat that makes PETA activists feel like fainting. Last week, when she arrived at the Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown for a hi... |
7 December 2011
09:50 GMT |
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“As you're reading this email, it's likely that a sea turtle caught on a tuna industry long line is slowly drowning somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.” - this is how Greenpeace begin their latest public campaign, and this is how we wish to grab your attention also.Needless to say, this call for hel... |
11 October 2011
04:55 GMT |
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A fundraising drive organized by Texas Congressman Ron Paul was disrupted because his campaign website became the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.Congressman Paul hopes to be nominated as the Republican's party candidate for the 2010 presidential election.This past weekend's fundrais... |
23 August 2011
13:09 GMT |
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Advancing to the next stage in its evolution, Microsoft’s software donations program is now opened to more nonprofits and communities than ever before.Moreover, the collection of Microsoft technologies available as donation options to NGOs has almost doubled, enabling nonprofit organizations to benefit from th... |
27 July 2011
10:09 GMT |
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Former PS3 hacker George Hotz, aka geohot, has donated $10,000, including the remaining money received from people for his legal defence fund, to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), one of the leading digital rights watchdogs.Geohot was sued by Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) in mid-January after rev... |
19 April 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Security researchers warn about scams leveraging news of the earthquake that hit the northeast coast of Japan yesterday, leading to renewed fears about the unstable situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.A 7.1 magnitude earthquake believed to be an aftershock of the one that generated a devastating tsunami ... |
8 April 2011
02:35 GMT |
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The Call of Duty Endowment, which is run by video game publisher Activision Blizzard, has donated 500,000 dollars to five groups that are aiming to bring veteran military personnel into civilian careers once their tours of duty end.
Amvets, Military to Medicine, Student Veterans of America, Veterans Green Jobs and... |
14 March 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Google is a company run by engineers which prides itself with its technical prowess. While computer science takes precedence, mathematics is almost as important for a company that relies on its algorithms more than anything else. Add to this a tradition of donations to educational and scientific pursuits and its late... |
21 January 2011
12:19 GMT |
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Defying economic uncertainties, in excess of 60% of Microsoft employees have managed to donate together over $96 million in 2010, making it the biggest giving year in company history. Thousands of charities, more than 16,000 in fact, have benefited from the money or time donated by the software giant’s worked ... |
17 January 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Google is feeling especially generous this time of the year and is announcing a couple of charitable initiatives. Google will be donating $20 million for several projects. At the same time, it also ran an interesting promotion with Chrome enabling users to have Google donate to their favorite charities on their behal... |
21 December 2010
09:29 GMT |
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A truly special treat for all chocolate lovers out there: to mark the start of Chocolate Week, the world’s largest brandy truffle has been created. It weighs over 250 kg and packs quite a caloric punch, at 433,330 calories. The truffle is 60 pounds heavier than the previous record holder and will be accredited ... |
14 October 2010
15:21 GMT |
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Google has announced the winners of its ambitious Project 10^100. The five organizations will receive funding from Google to put their ideas into practice. Two years ago, the company started the project, asking people from around the world to come up with ideas on how to make the planet a better place. If it's o... |
25 September 2010
07:37 GMT |
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Wikipedia is such an integral part of the web that most people don't even give it a second thought anymore. And much like everything else online, the site is completely free and available to anyone. Unlike most other sites, Wikipedia doesn't have advertising, there isn't a Wikipedia Pro, and has no oth... |
17 February 2010
03:33 GMT |
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After Brittany Murphy’s death, her grieving husband, Simon Monjack, and mother, Sharon Murphy, set up a charitable foundation that received donations for what it said was the support of arts and education in children. Over the weekend, TMZ broke the story that the foundation was not listed as a charitable one w... |
15 February 2010
01:00 GMT |
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Celebrities have all joined forces to do their bit for the victims in Haiti, either donating money to several charitable organizations working in the area or taking part in last week’s telethon that managed to raise almost $58 million within 24 hours. John Travolta belongs to the former category, the actor flyi... |
27 January 2010
03:03 GMT |
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Earlier this week, Haiti was struck by a mighty earthquake that inflicted serious and widespread damage on the country's government infrastructure, as well as upon business and public institutions. To assist in the relief efforts, the Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation announced that it would be donating $500,00... |
16 January 2010
04:52 GMT |
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Sprint and T-Mobile have announced their support for the victims of the strong earthquake that hit Haiti and more IT companies are revealing their intention to make donations or otherwise offer assistance to the survivors. Among these corporations is Dell that has announced a corporate cash donation of $500,000 and a... |
16 January 2010
04:22 GMT |
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Apple has set up a way for iTunes customers to help Haiti earthquake victims by making a monetary donation to the American Red Cross. Those eager to make a change for the people affected by the natural disaster can access an iTunes page (located here) and donate from $5.00 to $200.00. The donation will be deducted as... |
15 January 2010
04:02 GMT |
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Cybercriminals wasted no time in trying to exploit the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti two days ago to their own advantage. Security researchers warn of poisoned Web search results, while authorities advise caution when donating money to relief efforts.On January 12, 2010, at 16:53:09 local time, stress ga... |
14 January 2010
08:03 GMT |
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Taylor Swift is not only a celebrated and much appreciated singer, but also a very lovable celebrity, the kind who never forgets to help others who perhaps will never have the chance she had to break in the spotlight. To celebrate her 20th birthday, the country singer donated no less than $250,000 to schools she visi... |
15 December 2009
08:39 GMT |
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ISOC (Internet Society) has recently announced a $2.5 million donation to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) that will span across a period of three years, helping the organization with its recent struggles in restructuring its working groups. The donation was announced on December 11, 2009 in a joint press release.... |
14 December 2009
10:04 GMT |
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A little while ago, American Idol runner-up and currently the most hyped pop artist of our times, despite not even having an album out, Adam Lambert announced his fans he would be launching a charity program. Set up at DonorsChoose.org, the campaign helped fans get in touch with the singer, while also, most important... |
1 October 2009
09:37 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of a new piece of rogueware, called "Green AV," which is making victims. The fake antivirus software preys on people's concerns about environmental issues by promising to donate part of the license costs to a green cause.The distribution of scareware, also known as rogueware, still repr... |
3 September 2009
07:52 GMT |
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American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert has one of the most loyal fanbases ever, a thing demonstrated not only by his ever-increasing popularity, but also based on how well tickets for the Idol Live series of shows have sold so far. It’s to these fans that the singer is now appealing in a new video of DonorsChoose... |
26 August 2009
11:38 GMT |
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Michael Jackson’s public memorial cost the city of Los Angeles a whopping $1.4 million employed in extra security for the event and sealing off areas of the town where the convoy of limousines accompanying the singer’s body passed. Even before the memorial, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa asked fans to visit t... |
9 July 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Brad Pitt and the entire Pitt family, which presumably also includes partner Angelina Jolie, have agreed to donate $1 million for an endowment fund at St. John’s in Springfield, Missouri. The announcement was made by Brad’s brother, Doug, and confirmed by News-Leader but, as of now, further details on thi... |
15 June 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Wikipedia has always been a community-based website available for free for all the users on the web. However, due to maintenance costs and other expenses, users were invited to donate money to the Foundation in order to keep the service alive and provide more and more articles to the web.However, the biggest donation... |
27 March 2008
03:40 GMT |
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Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales is a scandal magnet in the past days, as he managed to break up with his girlfriend via Wikipedia announcement, has been held accountable for spending some of his company's funds for personal purposes and, now, because he erased a $5,000 donor's embarrassing page history. Hold yer horses... |
7 March 2008
18:46 GMT |
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Man, I sure feel betrayed right about now. I mean, come on, Bart Simpson was one of my all-time favorite cartoon characters. He used to rank high up there with Manny from Ice Age and Sailor Moon (for the non-connoisseurs, that's a Japanese Anime cartoon character that saves the world dressed in a short skirt). I... |
31 January 2008
11:25 GMT |
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First of all, I chose to name the group of hackers 'Robin Hood', because they acted just like the famous hero: they stole the BitTorrent website's money and donated them to a Sikhi portal. Now, let me tell you the whole story: the hackers managed to steal the password of an administrator of the BitTorr... |
7 January 2008
10:00 GMT |
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Since the holiday season is quickly approaching, the email spammers adapted and started new unsolicited messages assaults over millions of users from all over the world. Security vendor Marshal wrote that most spammers beg for donations such as second-hand clothes, blankets and... money. In fact, this last element is... |
9 November 2007
06:08 GMT |
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Microsoft has managed to reach this year a new standard in its charitable endeavors. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer was joined by former U.S. president Bill Clinton for the closing ceremony of the company's 2007 annual giving campaign. The two applauded a new giving record that raised the bar to... |
5 November 2007
02:56 GMT |
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We all know Southern California was recently assaulted by an impressive avalanche of wildfires which had a huge impact over the community of residents and their lives. Because of that, numerous organizations and companies encourage people all around the world to donate money and help the fire victims. Google is just ... |
29 October 2007
10:06 GMT |
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Man, these spammers are smart! Security company Sophos discovered a new method used by a group of spammers in order to earn money from consumers' donations. According to the reports, the spammers targeted Bobbear, a British website which fights against malicious websites used by the attackers from all around the... |
15 October 2007
05:18 GMT |
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A new technique to steal credit cards and remain unidentified is spreading on the Internet, numerous attackers preferring to donate money to charity in order to verify the validity of the cards. This is quite an interesting method to avoid identification because the banks and the authorities are often ignoring the ch... |
9 July 2007
09:12 GMT |
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