Charity stories - Page 5

Charity through viral challenges: more than just a trend? After the ice bucket challenge, the real impact and future potentials are questioned.

New Zealand Red Cross to move IT system to the cloud, with help from McDonalds IT, to improve resilience from natural disasters.

Rural schools in the North Island are being given a helping hand to keep up with technology and match the education standards of their city-bred counterparts.

Holiday season alert: Scammers set to double profits on social media with a surge in Christmas and charity scams. Stay vigilant online.

Bids to have coffee with the Apple CEO at the company's headquarters top US$600,000 as the auction draws to a close.

Mark Zuckerberg pledges USD $500 million of Facebook shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation as part of his commitment to The Giving Pledge.

FileMaker launches holiday BOGOF deal on FileMaker Pro 12; buy one, gift another for free till Dec 20. Perfect for enhancing business tasks.

Facebook's tech chief Bret Taylor leaves for startup realm post-IPO, shaking the exec team as the firm rebounds from a rocky stock debut.

The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman clashes with Funnyjunk in a high-stakes copyright row, spotlighting digital content ownership issues.

Animal cruelty prevention charity continues its tradition of edgy campaigns with website on controversial domain.

Raspberry Pi, a wallet-sized computer, ignites a coding revolution among youth, now shipping globally after high demand.

Amazon has issued a refund to a dissatisfied Mass Effect 3 player, as fans' backlash over the game's ending continues to gain traction.

A viral YouTube doco on Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony by Invisible Children has sparked debate over its accuracy and the ethics of social media activism.

Plan UK has launched a bus stop ad in Oxford Street that uses facial recognition to show content only to women, highlighting the campaign for girls' rights.

Two big stories surrounding Motorola and Apple this morning, all to do with patents, injunctions, and other fun legal proceedings.

New Zealand tops Zendesk's global customer satisfaction poll at 95%, while the French lag at 57%. Now, a new charity-linked plan boosts philanthropy.

HP launches e-smiles campaign, inviting the public to send digital messages of hope to sick kids at Ronald McDonald House, Auckland.

Facebook and Twitter users are joining a campaign by ToiletDay.org to post about the global toilet shortage in support of World Toilet Day this Saturday.

SwearJar encourages users to clean up their language on Twitter by donating to Unicef for every swear word tweeted, adding a charitable twist.

After six years at Facebook, Randi Zuckerberg, sister of founder Mark Zuckerberg, resigns to launch her own media venture, RtoZ Media.