Neowin News Feed for: Donates

i'm Initiative donates $1.3M in its first year.

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:44:41 +0000

The i'm Initiative, where every time someone who has chosen to participate in the i'm Initiative has a conversation using Messenger, Microsoft shares a portion of our advertising revenue with the organization selected by the... Read more...

EA Donates Original SimCity to One Laptop Per Child

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:01:07 +0000

Today Electronic Arts Inc. announced the company will donate the original SimCity™ — the blockbuster 1989 game credited with giving rise to the city-building game genre—to each computer in the One Laptop per Child (OLPC)... Read more...

Yahoo! Stanford Alumnus donates $75 million

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:59:29 +0000

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang will donate $75 million to Stanford University, the university from where he graduated and where he and a fellow student by the name of David Filo began working on a directory... Read more...

Bill Gates Donates $258.3 Million for Malaria Research

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:12:47 +0000

Malaria research accounts for about one-third of 1 percent of the total amount of money spent on medical research and development, even though it accounts for 3 percent of all the productive years of life... Read more...

Bill Gates Donates $40m To Old School

Howard Thomson — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:47:12 +0000

Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, is to donate $40 million to his old school in Seattle. Lakeside is a fee-paying school and the money from Microsoft will go towards scholarships for children in the local area.... Read more...

Watch which way the country donates to politics online

Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:31:48 +0000

An interesting website! I've included some "searches" our readers might find interesting : "Fundrace.org gives a fascinating perspective on campaign donation laws. You can look up people's political donations to the current... Read more...