There is pain and turmoil in Steve Jobs’s death, but for the departed tech executive’s company Apple, real opportunity too. That’s why, near the height of the Christmas shopping season, Apple is giving precious space on its homepage and in its stores to a charity promotion. It’s the sort of philanthropic gesture Jobs made a point of avoiding. More »
As a show of gratitude for donating $US5000 worth of water pumps, a remote Indian village changed their name to Snapdeal.com, mirroring that of their Groupon-esque benefactor. Wait, wait, wait. Huh? More »
Our favourite charity worker Bill Gates has successfully signed up 38 billionaires to give away half of their wealth to those less fortunate in what could be the largest-scale philanthropic work ever. More »
The beautiful, smart and, no doubt, fragrant Melinda Gates is the subject of a mahoosive profile in Fortune. And, aside from the philanthropic angle (Bill and Melinda, it is estimated, will give away around $US100 billion from their eponymous foundation) it gives a fascinating insight into the home life of Mr. and Mrs. Gates—including the fact that the Apple II she inherited off her dad as a teenager was what got her interested in computer science. More choice nuggets below.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is dedicated to global health issues among other philanthropic causes, revealed yesterday that it just so happens to hold 740,000 shares of McDonald’s stock. Wait, the same McDonald’s that contributes to the obesity epidemic in our country? Doesn’t that seem, I don’t know, counterintuitive? You’re paying for both the problem and the solution. That’s just poor business sense, Bill. [Reuters via The Raw Feed] More »
