Today, the Thiel Foundation announced it would grant $350,000 to two of Breakout Labs' teams: Skyphrase and Stealth Biosciences.
IBM just announced that its cloud products and services will be based on open cloud architecture.
Prestigious accelerator Y Combinator is expanding its horizons by backing a nonprofit called "Watsi."
How do we keep up the spirit of giving all year round? Here are three ideas from the tech community to turn you into change-making habitual philanthropist.
Amicus helps nonprofits leverage their social networks into effective outreach efforts.
Editor's Pick It only took a few months for Wilfred, a teen from a rough neighborhood in Washington D.C., to begin handing out handwritten business cards with the title "future engineer."
Sojo Studios is announcing its first online social game, WeTopia, which is designed to be part of a series of games where players can have fun while doing good in the real world by raising money for children’s charities.
WeTopia …
“I’m around nonprofits a fair amount and saw that most of them were small and really struggling with just getting up a simple website,” said Dodd Caldwell.
Caldwell recently got in touch with VentureBeat to tell us about Bellstrike, his …
Have you ever considered how a simple, free technology such as YouTube videos could drastically improve a global problem such as education?
Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, is something of an expert on the topic. In this video, …
This article is part of a series of posts about DEMO alumni and news of their progress. Zurb launched at DEMO in Spring 2010. Check out more at DEMO.
Yesterday, interaction design firm Zurb held its annual ZurbWired event, a …
Kiva, the startup that made micro-finance a household term, announced today that it has landed a $5 million grant for the next three years from social impact investment firm Omidyar Network. The grant will match up to $2 million in …
