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Re: news from Google

  • From: Hank Nussbacher
  • Date: Tue Dec 22 02:30:37 2009

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Jorge Amodio wrote:

Another one from the "Evil Doer"

http://www.google.com/advertising/holiday2009/

Wish the guys from Redmond and others copy this action too ...

Cheers
Jorge
Google makes about $1.5B profit per quarter. $20M of charity? I don't like MS any more than most, but Gates Foundation has received $20B from Bill and Warren over the past 3 years. My hat goes off to those guys!

From a corporate standpoint, comparing to 2006 donations as reviewed by
Businessweek:
http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/philanthropy_corporate/
Google's $20M on $6B profit for 2009 is miniscule and basically just PR hype. Wanna compare Bill to Larry & Sergey? Your comment on "wish Redmond would copy this action" is libelous and I certainly hope that major philanthropists do not "copy" Google's joke of a donation.

-Hank

Further references:
http://www.corporatephilanthropy.org/resources/benchmarking-reports/giving-in-numbers.html
http://philanthropy.com/philanthropy50/index.php?view=topdonors&year=2008





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