Epic Games managed to raise $144 million for Ukraine between March 21 and April 3. The money will be donated to a range of charities including UNICEF, UNHCR, Direct Relief and World Central Kitchen.
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In connection with the GivingTuesday on November 30, Meta offers new resources and charity tools, including the Giving Exchange feature, and brings back the #BuyBlack Friday campaign for its users.
Vodafone has announced that charities of any size can apply for free Vodafone SIM cards that offer unlimited calls and texts plus 20GB of data per month. The SIM cards will be free for six months.
EE and WeAre8 have teamed up to allow customers to earn rewards for viewing video ads from partner brands. The money a user collects can be used to pay their phone bill or be sent to charity.
The UK charity, Internet Watch Foundation, has reported an increase in reports of child sexual abuse content online. It said the lockdown meant more people were online and uncovering illegal content.
O2 and Hubbub have announced that they plan to donate 10,000 smartphones to the most vulnerable people around the country. Recipients will also receive unlimited calls, texts, and 6GB of data.
Google announced today a new feature that will let you send donations to any cause that matters to you through Assistant, starting with the nonprofit group Center for Policing Equity.
The Chinese mobile phone company nubia has announced a new charitable sales initiative involving the Red Magic 5G today. 1% of proceeds from the Hot Rod Red color variant will be donated until June 8.
Social media application TikTok has added an interactive new form of stickers to its platform. The new 'Donation Stickers' can be used in videos made on the app and viewers can donate through them.
This pandemic has seen several significant philanthropic efforts from tech executives, with Zuckerburg committing $30 million, and Bezos donating $100 million. Dorsey has also joined the ranks.
In order to help fight the COVID-19 virus and help people on the front lines, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is donating $100M to help find a cure, support the front lines, and help communities.
Awesome Games Done Quick came to an end last night, and the event raised a whopping $2.4 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. The total amount marks a personal best for the event.
Awesome Games Done Quick kicks off today at 11.30AM ET (16.30PM GMT). AGDQ is a charity event wherein speedrunners attempt to finish games in record times whilst raising money for charity.
Google announced today that it is rolling out a new landing page on its Google Play service, allowing residents in select countries to donate to charitable groups directly from the Play Store.
Ninja Theory - the developer (and publisher) behind the upcoming Xbox title, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice has vowed to donate $25,000 if its title moves 50k units within the first week.
With today being World Food Day, Google has announced that every year on this day, it will donate the proceeds from the sale of a collection of games and apps in its Play store to aid world hunger.
The popular site that sold bundles of indie games at prices users wanted to pay has itself now been sold to IGN for an undisclosed sum. IGN said no changes are expected in how the site will be run.
Were you impacted by hurricanes Harvey or Irma? If so, ioSafe wants to help you out with some water- and fireproof devices. They're also donating money from sales to the Red Cross relief efforts.
Bill Gates has donated 64 million Microsoft shares, worth around $4.6 billion. It's his largest donation of company shares since 2000, reducing his Microsoft stake to just 1.3%, down from 24% in 1996.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation and the CoderDojo Foundation are coming together to drastically increase the number of young people that can be reached with the latter's coding events.
In an initiative to improve human health, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have vowed to spend $3 billion over the next decade to fight, manage, and cure diseases.
Employee donations were up 7% in 2015, marking the 6th year workers have contributed over $100 million. Over two-thirds of employees participated, while Microsoft matched donations up to $15,000.
Company-wide President Brad Smith announces a new organization at Redmond dedicated to creating a better world through technology, named Microsoft Philanthropies.
As part of his attempt to address inequality across the world, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he will gift $1 billion in Facebook stock every year, up to 99% of his stock, to charity.
Microsoft has a long history of charitable contributions, and with the launch of Windows 10, the company wants to give even more back to the world with its "Upgrade Your World" campaign.
The gaming community behind Destiny banded together with Bungie and Activision and managed to raise more than a million dollars, money that's being donated to Direct Relief to help victims in Nepal.
Tim Cook plans to donate all of his money to charity, which is estimated to be at $785 million. He reportedly wants to do this as soon as he is done paying for his nephew's college education.
As part of the TODAY show's annual holiday charity drive, Microsoft has donated $2 million in software and 200 Windows tablets to youth-focused charity organizations for those in need.
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Apple is teaming up with some of the biggest names in the App Store to help raise funds for fighting HIV/AIDS. A special campaign is underway for this year's World AIDS Day on December 1st.
Google is donating $10m to not-for-profit organizations working to fight the threat of Ebola, and it will donate up to $5m more, by giving $2 for every $1 donated to various nonprofits.
An Apple fan has paid $300,000 to dine with CEO Tim Cook. The online auction ended just recently, where a one hour experience will grant the winner a chance to speak to the head boss himself.
A charity auction involving Apple's CEO has ended with a winning bid of over $600,000. The winner will receive a one hour coffee break with one of the most influential people in tech, Tim Cook.
Microsoft posted a short clip showing off what an awesome year 2012 has been. From new versions of major products to incredible work done with charities to awesome launches 2012 was a great year.
One of Microsoft's new Surface tablets, signed by company CEO Steve Ballmer, is being put up for auction at the German eBay web site, with proceeds going to charity.
A new operator in the UK wants to give something back to the community, donating 25% of its profits to good causes, and allowing users to pledge 10% of their mobile spend to a charity of their choice.
Skype has announced a new charity effort called Skype For Peace, is asking for people to donate money to this new cause and will match up to $100.000.
A new report claims that Facebook has settled a lawsuit concerning its "Sponsored Stories" and will pay $10 million to charity as part of the settlement agreement.
We chat with Jack Kim, the founder of Benelab, a charitable search engine, about how his start-up is making a difference worldwide, their problems with Google, relationship with Bing, and the future.
In response to The Oatmeal's request for philanthropic donations following a lawsuit against them by FunnyJunk.com, fans have responded with over $160,000 in donations to two charitable organizations.
Bestselling author Malcom Gladwell says that 50 years from now we'll have statues of Bill Gates, but people will be asking "who was Steve Jobs?" Of course, no one will remember Microsoft, either.
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