Neowin News Feed for: Funds

The Bahamas secured $3.5 billion of FTX's assets to give back to customers and creditors

Paul Hill — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 22:48:02 +0000

The Bahamian authorities have disclosed that they're holding on to $3.5 billion worth of FTX's assets. It took control of them following the company's bankruptcy so they don't go missing. Read more...

Valve patches Steam exploit that allowed inflation of wallet funds

Usama Jawad — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 17:46:01 +0000

Valve has awarded a bounty of $7,500 to a person who identified a bug through which they could artificially inflate their wallets funds on Steam by changing the POST request via certain email IDs. Read more...

Apple expands its partnership with (RED), $250 million raised since 2006

Usama Jawad — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 09:06:01 +0000

Apple is expanding its partnership with (RED). Until next week, $1 for every purchase with Apple Pay on various platforms will be contributed to the funds set up to combat AIDS and COVID-19. Read more...

ProtonMail firm receives €2M from EU to develop its ecosystem

Paul Hill — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 05:54:02 +0000

Proton Technologies AG, the firm behind the encrypted email service, ProtonMail, has won €2 million from the European Union. The funds will help start the development of ProtonDrive. Read more...

PayPal banning Usenet providers because of piracy concern

Andrew Stevenson — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:00:00 +0000

After taking a hard line against BitTorrent and file-sharing sites, PayPal has moved onto Usenet service providers, freezing funds and stopping them accepting payments to their accounts. Read more...

Wisconsin School buys 800 iPads with Microsoft's cash

Brad Sams — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:54:40 +0000

A school in Madison, Wisconsin has purchased 800 iPads with funds received from a Microsoft settlement over a consumer lawsuit over software. Read more...

New bill lets colleges use federal funds to fight P2P

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:09:39 +0000

Representative Ric Keller feels that colleges in America are places where students learn to steal "billions of dollars in intellectual property from hardworking people whose jobs hang in the balance" and his new bill (HR... Read more...

PayPal Blocks Hurricane Relief Funds

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:53:00 +0000

The popular website Something Awful.com took matters into their own hands following the path of destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, by setting up a relief fund using PayPal as the middle-man. What happened next was... Read more...

Max Payne Developer Self Funds Next Title

Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:13:56 +0000

Remedy, makers of the stylish Max Payne franchise, send word confirming that it will be showing off their next game at E3 next month from ATI's booth, plus announced that they are self funding the... Read more...

Energy Dept. Funds Open-Source InfiniBand Work

Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:12:46 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a consortium of InfiniBand advocates to build Linux software support for the high-speed networking technology. The three-year project will support programmers at chipmaker Intel and InfiniBand... Read more...

Nokia funds Mozilla's Minimo

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 01:59:45 +0000

According to kitchenutensils, ZDNet reported that Nokia has been quietly funding Mozilla's development of mobile device web browser project called Minimo. The Minimo (Mini Mozilla) project is focused on developing an elegant web... Read more...

'Anonymous' funds patent foe

Wed, 09 Apr 2003 13:25:33 +0000

Bruce Perens has found what every open-source activist needs: a sugar daddy. A sponsor has provided Perens with a $50,000 annuity to support his advocacy for open-source organizations and his opposition... Read more...