12 posts and columns on grant

New Yahoo CEO’s $27M Pay Package for 2012 = Lotsa Lettuce

in News on January 6 at 2:43 pm PT

Newly installed Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has got to be hoping that the world is not ending in 2012!
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Exclusive: Zynga’s Van Natta Moves to Strategic Adviser; Feld Off Board, Paul In

in News on November 17, 2011 at 10:30 am PT

Big changes at the online social gaming phenom as it gets ready to go public.

Apple iPad News Reader Zite Sold to CNN for Just Over $20 Million

in Media on August 30, 2011 at 10:06 am PT

Zite, the magazine-style reading app for the Apple iPad, has been sold to news giant CNN for $20 million to $25 million.
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When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims All Kinds of Copyright Damage

in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT

A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app. The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.

Gates Foundation, U.S. Government Back Cellphone Banking for Haiti

in Mobile on January 10, 2011 at 10:35 am PT

Digicel has been given a $2.5 million grant for being the first company to establish mobile banking in Haiti. It’s part of $10 million in funding established to boost cellphone-based savings in the impoverished and quake-stricken country. Even before the quake, only one in 10 Haitians had access to traditional banking services.

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Silicon Valley's Latest Geek: Barbie Gets a CS Degree

in News on November 23, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

Of course, All Things Digital went. How could we not, what with Microsoft, Mattel and the Girl Scouts of America holding a joint event last week to talk up their new partnership aimed at halting the expanding gender gap in the tech sector. Their weapon of choice? Barbie.

Superpoke! Facebook Chooses N.C. for $450M Data Center

in News on November 11, 2010 at 10:50 am PT

Add Facebook to the list of tech titans building data centers in North Carolina. The social networking phenom today said it plans to build a $450 million data center in Rutherford County, N.C.–about 65 miles west of Charlotte.

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Google Hands the Media a $5 Million "Get Well Soon" Check

in Media on October 26, 2010 at 10:29 am PT

Worried about the future of journalism? So is Google. So it is handing $5 million grants to nonprofits “that are working to develop new approaches to journalism in the digital age.” Two million of that goes to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the other $3 million will go to journalism projects outside of the U.S., which Google sales boss Nikesh Arora says will be named next year. Easy enough to cast aspersions on Google’s intentions here, but we’ll leave that to others: A grant is a grant, right? But for context: Google had net profits last quarter of $2.17 billion.

Sirius XM Unveils SkyDock for iPhone

in News on August 26, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

Wikipedia: "Free" as in Thanks for Your $2 Million Donation

in News on August 25, 2009 at 3:44 pm PT

August has been a lucrative month for the Wikimedia Foundation. Last week, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia received a $500,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Now it has been given a $2 million grant from the Omidyar Network.
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Wikipedia: “Free” as in Thanks for Your $2 Million Donation

in News, August 25, 2009 at 3:44 pm PT

The Limits of Steve Jobs’s Power: Even the Apple CEO Can’t Make Options Interesting

in Media, April 23, 2009 at 5:06 am PT