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Wikipedia Raises $16 Million in Donations, Double What It Made Last Year

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

Wikipedia Reaches Fund-Raising Goal of $7.5 Million

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

Help Wikipedia Raise $7.5 Million in 'Wikipedia Forever' Campaign

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

Twitter Gets Fast-Sued, Speeds Up Business Account Development

ONEOK Inc. has filed a legal complaint against Twitter in which it accuses the social network for allowing a user to register a username containing the ONEOK word, subject to copyright and trademark protection. This lawsuit was dropped after Twitter admins deleted the account in question. ONEOK, a US-based natural g...

17 September 2009
08:13 GMT

Wikipedia Succeeds in Raising $6 Million

The famous Internet encyclopedia announced on Friday that it managed to reach its $6 million fund raising target for this fiscal year, with contributions from more than 125,000 people, who donated some $4 million, an average of $32 each. The rest of the money, approximately $2 million, came from various projects the ...

5 January 2009
03:36 GMT


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