news from Google
Scott Howard
scott at doc.net.au
Tue Dec 22 07:57:11 UTC 2009
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Hank Nussbacher <hank at efes.iucc.ac.il>wrote:
>
> 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!
>
Just to put this in the right context you might want to read
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/21/google-2009-holiday-gift/
ie, this is not a charity donation from "Google", but from one part of
Google on behalf of their customers/suppliers.
Either way, I think we're a little off topic by this stage...
Scott.
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