Neowin News Feed for: Donations

Meta introduces new fundraising resources to celebrate GivingTuesday

Fiza Ali — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:42:01 +0000

In connection with the GivingTuesday on November 30, Meta offers new resources and charity tools, including the Giving Exchange feature, and brings back the #BuyBlack Friday campaign for its users. Read more...

Microsoft is suspending PAC donations for officials who objected to election certification

Usama Jawad — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 08:30:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced some changes to its PAC, a major one being suspending donations to Congress members who voted against election certification for the "duration of the 2022 election cycle". Read more...

Uber announces help for New York restaurants and workers

Paul Hill — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:00:01 +0000

Uber has announced that users in New York can make donations to help restaurants. It will also match donations and put the money into the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund, which will help couriers. Read more...

Intel provides $6 million for coronavirus relief efforts

Paul Hill — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:30:01 +0000

Intel is to donate a further $6 million to assist coronavirus relief efforts in areas where it operates. The firm has also delivered supplies to healthcare workers and donated $1 million. Read more...

Apple announces new measures to tackle Covid-19

Paul Hill — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 17:02:01 +0000

Apple has announced several more measures that will help to stem the transmission of Covid-19 in countries outside of Greater China. Employees will also be allowed to work from home. Read more...

UNICEF becomes first UN organization to start accepting cryptocurrency donations

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:32:01 +0000

UNICEF has announced that it will now be accepting donations in the form of bitcoin and ether. This will be made possible through the organization's newly established Cryptocurrency Fund. Read more...

For the holidays, Google adds "donate" button to search results

Timi Cantisano — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 01:12:01 +0000

In the spirit of the holiday season, Google has now added a "donate" button that appears when users search for their favorite organizations that have enrolled in the Google for Nonprofits program. Read more...

Microsoft Philanthropies made contributions worth $650 million in the last year

Gurkaran Singh — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:22:01 +0000

In its first year of operations, Microsoft Philanthropies has made pretty impactful contributions in the past year donating more than $650 million in services, helping several non-profits. Read more...

Apple recruits developers to help fight AIDS in special (RED) campaign

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:20:02 +0000

Apple is teaming up with some of the biggest names in the App Store to help raise funds for fighting HIV/AIDS. A special campaign is underway for this year's World AIDS Day on December 1st. Read more...

Google to donate over $10 million to help in fight against Ebola

Andy Weir — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:34:01 +0000

Google is donating $10m to not-for-profit organizations working to fight the threat of Ebola, and it will donate up to $5m more, by giving $2 for every $1 donated to various nonprofits. Read more...

Youtube adds support for 60 fps videos and fan donations

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:49:49 +0000

Youtube is getting some cool new features in the near future including support for high framerate videos as well as direct money donations from fans to their favorite channels. Read more...

Microsoft's donated 3.9 billion dollars to non-profits to date

Brad Sams — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:58:51 +0000

Microsoft is dedicated to supporting non-profit organizations and has donated 3.9 billion dollars to them since 1998. Read more...

WikiLeaks to sue Visa and MasterCard for blocking donations

Denis Wong — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:12:35 +0000

It has been more than half a year since Visa and MasterCard faced DDoS attacks from Anonymous and WikiLeaks supporters for holding back financial donations to the whistleblower organization. In an announcement made earlier today,... Read more...

GeoHot legal fight helped out by Microsoft donations?

Byron Hinson — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:30:54 +0000

Only a short time ago, PlayStation jailbreaker George Hotz (GeoHot) was asking for donations to help cover his legal fees in his fight against Sony, who are suing him for hacking the PlayStation 3 console... Read more...

Google Checkout launches Special Holiday Donations Page

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:58:04 +0000

Back in September, Google launched “Google Checkout for Non-Profits”, a service which allowed Google Checkout users to securely donate online to their favourite U.S. non-profit organizations. These organizations do not have to pay a dime... Read more...