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Charities Criticise Move To Shut Down AmazonSmile

Charities criticise Amazon for surprise decision to shut down AmazonSmile donation programme that it said was 'spread too thin'

2 years ago

First All-Civilian Crew Launch To Orbit On SpaceX Rocket

The door to outer space continues to be nudged wider, as first all-civilian crew circle the Earth aboard SpaceX Crew…

3 years ago

BBC Radio 4 Christmas Appeal Uses Cloud Call Centre Tech To Raise Funds

Annual BBC Radio 4 Appeal hopes cloud call centre technology can handle more calls and raise more money to help…

7 years ago

Microsoft’s Bill Gates Donates £3.6bn To Charity

Microsoft co-founder makes huge charity donation, as he continues Foundation's philanthropic work

7 years ago

Data Protection Watchdog Fines Eleven More UK Charities

Good causes doesn't excuse misuse of personal data says ICO, as it fines charities for 'wealth screening'

8 years ago

Cancer Research UK Uses Wi-Fi Beacons To Promote World Cancer Day 2017

The charity adopted Wi-Fi beacon technology from Devicescape Engage

8 years ago

Virgin Money Giving Teams Up With WorldPay To Ease Donation Strain

The new donation site features faster checkouts and a more responsive customer experience

8 years ago

Cancer Research Smart Benches Offer Londoners Solar Power Charging And Free Wi-Fi

The smart benches come with contactless payment tech to enable people to make small on-the-fly donations

8 years ago

Oxfam Turns To Rackspace For Azure Cloud Migration

Oxfam will get rid of its private cloud infrastructure in favour of a Rackspace-managed Azure platform

8 years ago

ICO Fines Top UK Charities For Data Protection Breaches

ICO fines RSPCA and British Heart Foundation for "wealth screening" to get more donations

8 years ago

Just Giving Uses Big Data To Predict Who Will Fundraise And How

IN-DEPTH: Online has revolutionised fundraising but JustGiving thinks the cloud-based gift Graph can go one step further

8 years ago

How Multi-Vendor Cloud & Donation Platform Help Comic Relief Cope With Red Nose Day Surge

Comic Relief CTO Zenon Hannick explains how downtime on Red Nose Day could cost charity tens of millions of pounds…

8 years ago

Splunk Big Data Analytics Software Gets Machine Learning Injection

Splunk software gets some machine learning while the big data firm also extends philanthropic activities

8 years ago

RNLI: Network Upgrade Will Help Us Save More Lives At Sea

KCOM is upgrading RNLI's WAN to help it better serve volunteers, save lives and attract more support

9 years ago

Google Pledges £14m To Support Disability Technology

Smart glasses for the blind and prosthetic limb makers among winners of Google Impact Challenge investment

9 years ago

Unicef UK Is Latest Charity To Sign Up For Box

Unicef will use Box for collaboration, content management and file sharing

9 years ago

NSPCC And O2 To Help Parents Protect Children Online

Workshops to help parents deal with online issues as confidently as offline ones, amid fears children are suffering from 'digital…

9 years ago

RSPB Conservation Efforts Take Flight Thanks To Data Analytics

Wildlife charity using SAS analytics to track threats and develop conservation programmes across the UK

10 years ago

Cancer Research UK Launches Contactless Donation Scheme

Partnership with Clear Channel allows public to donate using their mobile and interactive shop window advert

10 years ago