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McKinsey on Corporate Philanthropy: Mind Your Own Business

If only the Big 4 and the top consultancy firms could run on sustainability thought leadership white papers instead of free cash flow, 2008 would surely be a banner year. The latest epistle is from McKinsey who this week publish an insightful survey on corporate philanthropy. The...

Tags: McKinsey & Co., Philanthropy, NetSuite Inc., Survey, Business Goal, Marketing Research, Marketing, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Microsoft shares source code with AIDS researchers

Microsoft shares source code with AIDS researchersMicrosoft shares source code with AIDS researchersThe philanthropy goes beyond just Bill Gates and we now see it extend through the company. Lets hope Microsoft donates this software and source code to other diseases as well. I can imagine the slogans now, "Microsoft:...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, philanthropy, Microsoft Corp., source code, GPL, software, No_Ax, programmer, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services

Discussion threads 2007-06-13

Photos: Apple paints the iPod red

The company has philanthropy in mind with its latest Bono tie-in. But it hasn't forgotten the music player's hedonistic side.

Tags: Media players, Digital music, Digital media, philanthropy, music player, Apple iPod, Apple Computer Inc.

Image galleries 2006-10-13

Photos: Apple paints the iPod red

Company has philanthropy in mind with its latest Bono tie-in. But it hasn't forgotten the music player's hedonistic side.

Tags: Media players, Digital music, Digital media, philanthropy, music player, Apple iPod, Apple Computer Inc.

Image galleries 2006-10-13

The Business of Changing The World: Corporate Philanthropy

The Business of Changing The World: Corporate PhilanthropyCorporate PhilanthropyThe Entrepreneurs Foundation is working with hundreds of young companies to help them establish corporate philanthropy at the earliest stages. EF uses a web-based software platform powered by Marin-based AngelPoints to help its portfolio companies manage their community services. Over...

Tags: philanthropy, Corporate Philanthropy

Discussion threads 2006-10-09

Gates Foundation gives $500 million to Global Fund

Gates Foundation gives $500 million to Global FundGates Foundation gives $500 million to Global FundBig ups to the Gates Foundation. It's through charities like this and philanthropists like Bill and Melinda Gates that donations for good causes are possible. The people with these diseases will be overjoyed knowing...

Tags: Nothing, Mr Gates, Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, United Way, Global Fund, philanthropy, Seattle Times, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

Additional Resources

Greenland becomes green land; Brazil gets good news

Yes we know it is all lies...http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming.htmlhttp://www.climatechangefraud.com/Did the dinosaurs pass some gas and causethe ice age? I guess they should have beentaxed for passing gas!;)Do you do any actual research?Or do you just try to scare people into thinking the way you do?Greenland is one of the worst examples you...

Tags: BE TRUE, information technology, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Remember when FrontPage seemed pretty slick?

My school teaches...... web design in the conventional way. Intro classes cover HTML, CSS, using JQuery modules or writing basic js. Advances classes teach PHP and such. None of the classes I know of cover CMS.I had a summer internship where I used Drupal. I didn't do any of the...

Tags: Content management, CSS, Enterprise software, KompoZer, content management system, Microsoft FrontPage, CMS system

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Intel to Ireland: Vote Yes to Europe or else?

Irish politics is a sport not for the faint hearted. As Conor Cruise O'Brien once said: Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being...

Tags: Ireland, Intel Corp., Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Investment, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Business Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-10-02

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington state

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington stateWhat next, they'll terminate everyone's licensing agreements and thenhit the kill switch?Governments should be bullying corporations. Not the other way around. (or perhaps neither side should bully the other?)Typical MicroshaftHire foreigners, make the taxpayers foot the bill...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, government, Microsoft Corp., Washington State, Quincy facility, Microsoft Azure

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Bill Gates - the science guy

Bill Gates - the science guyMust be nice, spending other people's money.And feeling "good" because of it.Well Gates, in the grander scheme of things, you're a thief. And giving away what you took from others is not going to change that.Funny how all this philanthropy... comes with strings attached to...

Tags: Corporate communications, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., science guy

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform license

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform licenseAs it should be...You need to pay to play with these fine products. If a company is so short-sighted that they let their APA run out, they deserve to be stripped of all products covered under said APA. Microsoft is slaving...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, new application platform, Microsoft Corp., fine print, application platform, APA

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Survey: Microsoft customer satisfaction takes second quarter hit

Survey: Microsoft customer satisfaction takes second quarter hitIf they suck so muchWhy competitor can't manage to significantly increase market share in many fields where Microsoft is keeping(O.S) or even increasing(Server,B.I) its market share, like O.S market ?Could it be that much of the negative perception people has of Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Product marketing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft customer satisfaction, customer satisfaction, Microsoft Windows Vista, survey

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?

Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?SickThese corporate types are all sick. There is so such more to life than corporate growth, power, and big paycheck,Listening to corporate types scheme can make you sick to the stomach too.RE: Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?Isn't Jack Welch the guy who started...

Tags: Jack Welch, sustainability, capitalist

Discussion threads 2009-06-07

Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?

What's wrong with this picture? At a time where more leading companies than ever are integrating sustainability, not just into their mid term strategy but into the core of their business models, Jack Welch sits awkwardly on the landscape. Jack and Suzy Welch published a missive on sustainability in Business...

Tags: Strategy, Sustainability, Jack Welch, CSR, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Microsoft may rename 'netbooks' to longer, less catchy term

Microsoft may rename 'netbooks' to longer, less catchy termMicrosoft may rename 'netbooks' to longer, less catchy termThe new name won't catch on. Netbooks is a lot easier to say. The only time you will see it listed as ?low cost small notebook PC" is when Microsoft describes the hardware...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, netbook, Microsoft Corp., catchy term, PC, notebook

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

AT&T's First (well not quite first) Chief Sustainability Officer

The AT&T PR luvvies pushed out a tweet today announcing they had freshly minted their first Chief Sustainability Officer CSO. I took a closer look and it turns out the newly appointed Charlene Lake has been in situ since last year albeit with the slightly more modest title of VP Public Affairs Corporate Citizenship and...

Tags: Sustainability, AT&T Corp., James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Foxconn may have contract to manufacture Apple netbook

Foxconn may have contract to manufacture Apple netbookFoxconn may have contract to manufacture Apple netbookLook on the bright side, if they use a Foxconn motherboard you won't be able to run linux on it. The purchase of one of these will depend on price. Remember that Apple is...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Apple Inc., netbook, Apple Netbook, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Microsoft will allow Windows 7 users to downgrade to XP

Microsoft will allow Windows 7 users to downgrade to XPThis is really no big surprise of course,mainly due to the fact of some organizations or many organizations reliance on specific software written to work with XP. And they likely will not be ready to change to a newer OS till...

Tags: Operating systems, way thing, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 user, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-04-06

News to know: AOL's new CEO; Windows 7; Cloud computing

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Is Windows 7 reliable enough to release now? Brian Sommer: A U.S. Version of the Satyam Scandal? Washington D.C. IT Fraud? ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, America Online Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Operational Planning, Social Networking, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Business Operations, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet

Blog posts 2009-03-13