If you’ve been worried about the survival of everyone’s favorite online encyclopedia, fear not – the Wikimedia Foundation recently received a $500,000 donation.
Google Foundation Financially Well-To-Do
Compound interest can be an amazing thing – money just sort of grows out of whatever amount a person or company originally deposited. If, for example, an organization started out with $85 million, it could earn a fresh $4 million in a year’s time. And that appears to be exactly what the Google Foundation did.
Sun Joins OpenAJAX Alliance, Dojo Foundation
Sun Microsystems, known best for creating the Java programming language, has announced that it is joining the OpenAJAX Alliance, as well as the Dojo Foundation.
First The Foundation, Then The PR
What next for European unity, following the rejection of the idea of a European constitution by voters in France and The Netherlands?
Stuart Mudie wonders if Europe needs better PR:
Gates Foundation Ups Ante
Bill Gates put his money where his mouth is by upping his donation to $450 million to the Grand Challenges in Global Health program. In an address to the World Health Assembly, Gates told about his ideas for world health.
Wal-Mart Teams With National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Wal-Mart announced a groundbreaking partnership program, “Acres for America,” which will conserve critical wildlife habitats for future generations.
Google Founders Named 2004 Fellows of Marconi Foundation at Columbia University
The Men Who Continue to Organize the World’s Information Will Receive Marconi Foundation Prize, the Highest Award in Engineering.
JBoss Joins Eclipse Foundation to Contribute to J2EE Standard Tools Project
Two of the Most Successful Open Source Communities Collaborate to Better Integrate J2EE Development Tools and Middleware.
Day Implements Content Repository API for Java Technology (JCR) to the Apache Software Foundation
Day today announced that it has made available an implementation of the Content Repository API for Java Technology (JCR) to the Apache Software Foundation in order to further promote industry adoption and collaboration of the JSR 170 standard.
Three Foundation Stones for Building Organizational Integrity
When the stock market crashed in 1929, there were a lot of people who lost everything they had. You would think that the result of that event would be complete and utter despair. And, in fact, there were those who reacted that way. There were numerous cases of people who committed suicide because they lost their life savings on that fateful day. They simply went into a depression and just couldn’t bring themselves to go on with life.