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WWF officials are working in partnership with Banco de Oro Unibank (BDO), with the purpose of raising young people's level of awareness regarding the climate change phenomenon that is threatening biodiversity. The Seeds of the Future foundation is trying to improve the eco-conscious conduct of public elementar... |
18 November 2011
02:42 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the largest websites on the planet and most people rely on it quite often. But the site has no direct revenue stream, it's run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. There are no ads, no subscriptions, no nothing, so the site relies solely on donations to survive.Now, the sit... |
7 October 2011
13:31 GMT |
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In light of recent problems with Bitcoin, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has taken measures to distance itself from the virtual currency in order to avoid influencing people about adopting them.As a primary measure, the EFF has stopped accepting donations in Bitcoins. Before this, it was one of the most pro... |
21 June 2011
13:55 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that it has managed to raise more than 1.3 million dollars that will be used to provide relief in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami from those who use the PlayStation Network service.
The company asked gamers who use the PSN to donate money as early as M... |
6 April 2011
10:27 GMT |
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the team currently maintaining and improving Wikipedia, has recently released their five-year strategic plan which, among other things, aims at attracting 1 billion users to its websites.Continuing their declared intention to keep all aspects of Wikimedia as transparent as possible, Ting Ch... |
27 February 2011
14:45 GMT |
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It only took several days for PS3 hacker geohot to earn the money required for his legal fees from donations made by members of the gaming community.Back in January, Sony filed a lawsuit against renowned iPhone and PlayStation 3 hacker George "geohot" Hotz, and several others responsible for cracking the digital key ... |
23 February 2011
05:58 GMT |
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Flattr introduced an interesting take on donations and micropayments, offering a simple and elegant solution to 'tipping' your favorite artists, developers and so on. Flattr's central feature was that users only paid a fixed sum each month, which would then be split between the beneficiaries. But Flatt... |
6 January 2011
06:38 GMT |
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Wikipedia has managed to raise the $16 million in donations it set out to less than two months ago. The site's most ambitious goal to date was reached in record time and Wikipedia and its sister sites should be well funded for 2011. As an added benefit, we can finally enjoy a Wikipedia without Jimmy Wales' ... |
3 January 2011
05:39 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world, yet, unlike pretty much every other website its size, it has no direct revenue. Operated by Wikimedia, a non-profit organization, all of the site’s funding comes from donations. Operating a top 10 site is not cheap, though, and Wikimedia has struggled ... |
10 July 2010
05:59 GMT |
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According to official statistics, it would appear that the number of living organ donors has been significantly reduced over the last five years. Data seem to indicate that only 6,219 individuals were enrolled in such programs in 2008, as opposed to the 7,000 registered in 2004. This decrease is very worrying, as nea... |
23 March 2010
03:24 GMT |
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The internet has clearly changed things and old revenue models simply don't work anymore for many businesses, especially in the content industries. This hasn't sunk in for most of them but, while the old guard are desperately trying to maintain the status quo, there are others who are trying to find a... |
11 February 2010
10:27 GMT |
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Microsoft and its employees have lived up to a tradition of giving established long ago, at the start of the 80’s, with the support offered to the relief efforts that follow in the aftermath of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake which hit Haiti. The Redmond giant noted that in its case it was more than just about cor... |
19 January 2010
04:43 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites in the world and one of the most heavily trafficked. Yet, it doesn't have much of a revenue stream, in the traditional sense, and sticking to its core principles with all the content being available for everyone for free and with no advertising. Instead, it's maki... |
4 January 2010
08:45 GMT |
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Charitable donations, as everything else, took a hit in 2009 because of the worldwide economic downturn. However, Microsoft employees outdid themselves in the past year, managing to give in excess of $70 million to charity. According to information supplied by the Redmond giant, the company, together with its employ... |
23 December 2009
04:22 GMT |
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Wikipedia is in the midst of its sixth annual fund raiser to keep the site going. Run by the Wikimedia foundation, a non-profit organization, and with no revenue source of any kind, Wikipedia relies solely on donations to finance its operations and pay its 35 employees. The 2009 fund raiser has been running for more... |
18 December 2009
05:28 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world and, for good reason, the encyclopedia has become the best single place online to find any kind of information from science facts to TV show trivia. But the site, unlike many online services, is not commercial, meaning that the growing costs of infrastructur... |
11 November 2009
08:48 GMT |
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This is another update regarding the news on the victims of Cyclone Nargis in the state of Burma. By know, most of you probably know about Google's actions towards helping the Burmese people deal better with the disaster. Besides making the general public aware of the extent of the damage Nargis left behind, Goo... |
9 May 2008
08:55 GMT |
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Donations to presidential candidates' campaigns have been all over the news in the past months, sums reaching an all-time high online in January, when Illinois Senator Barack Obama was sent 28 million dollars over the Internet. The big names in the web industry, such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, have all joi... |
6 February 2008
07:31 GMT |
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