Philanthropy
BEIJING - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said a meeting about charity he attended Wednesday with Microsoft Corp.
BEIJING - Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett are set to meet China's super rich Wednesday to sell the art of giving over a dinner that has sparked some soul searching among the world's second-largest number of billionaires.
CHICAGO - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced a $100 million donation to Newark public schools.
NEWARK, N.J. - New Jersey's largest school district is poised to become a laboratory for education reforms with the help of a $100 million donation from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a gift thought to be the biggest contribution the 26-year-old entrepreneur has ever made.
NEW YORK - One project strapped dozens of digital cameras to kites and balloons and sent them above the Gulf of Mexico to document the oil spill.
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