YouTube announced two updates to its non-profit program on Friday, streamlining how non-profits and viral philanthropists can use the social video-sh…
July 20, 2012
by Matt Petronzio
Max Sidorov, the man who started the
Indiegogo campaign that raised over $680,000 for bullied bus monitor Karen Klein, has set the wheels in motion f…
July 20, 2012
by Matt Petronzio
There’s a widespread informal energy market in Africa. Electricity sockets can be difficult to find and people walk (sometimes far distance…
July 19, 2012
by Kate Freeman
The Internet Defense League, a grassroots coalition of thousands of web activists, online businesses and tech-savvy politicians, officially began on T…
July 19, 2012
by Alex Fitzpatrick
When you’re feeling under the weather do you rush to the hospital? Google frantically?
Now, a web app provides a middle ground solution, offeri…
July 19, 2012
by Zoe Fox
Italian supermodel and ex-girlfriend of George Clooney Elisabetta Canalis is the latest of the Beautiful People to help PETA protect animals.
In thi…
July 18, 2012
by Todd Wasserman
It isn’t always easy to spot income inequality. The disparate distribution of money among a population based on race, gender and other factors…
July 18, 2012
by Matt Petronzio
The Twitter account @ShellIsPrepared is not affiliated with the Shell energy company, but rather is part of an elaborate online hoax set up by the env…
July 18, 2012
by Alex Fitzpatrick
Approximately three quarters of the world’s population now has access to a mobile phone, according to a new study from the World Bank.
The numbe…
July 18, 2012
by Alex Fitzpatrick
Nelson Mandela, the first black South African president, is celebrating his 94th birthday — no small feat for a man who spent 27 years as a pol…
July 17, 2012
by Bianca Consunji
Google’s taking on an ambitious global initiative — using technology to expose, map and disrupt illicit networks of drug smugglers, arms…
July 17, 2012
by Zoe Fox
Aaron Collins’s last wish before dying was for his family and friends to have a pizza and leave a $500 tip — thanks to the support of str…
July 13, 2012
by Christine Erickson
The Internet Defense League (IDL), a collection of organizations and individuals promoting Internet freedom across the world, wants to make its mid-J…
July 13, 2012
by Alex Fitzpatrick
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When Dr. Rafael Lugo posted photos of a rare tumor to iRounds — a social network for doctors — he received immediate feedback from special…
July 11, 2012
by Samantha Murphy
Bus monitor
Karen Klein didn’t ask the world for sympathy, and she definitely didn’t request money. But once Internet users watched the h…
July 11, 2012
by Matt Petronzio
Joanna Montgomery gave birth to her first child, a healthy baby girl, at age 44. Though her pregnancy was high-risk because of her age, her daughter…
July 10, 2012
by Zoe Fox
Does social media promote activism, or is it a lazy form of participation? Social media is a strong platform for raising awareness, but the rel…
July 10, 2012
by Brian Solis
How do you celebrate your 40th birthday when you already have everything you need? For actress Sofia Vergara, you crowdfund for charity.
The Modern F …
July 10, 2012
by Christine Erickson
Apple ‘s products are no longer considered environmentally friendly after the tech giant asked the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment T…
July 9, 2012
by Matt Petronzio
![Portable Solar Power Kits for Africa: Now in the U.S., via Kickstarter [VIDEO]](http://web.archive.org/web/20120721201207im_/http://7.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/141,Fenix-ReadySet.jpg)
![Elisabetta Canalis Gets Stuck in a Hot Car for PETA [VIDEO]](http://web.archive.org/web/20120721201207im_/http://9.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/141,PETA.jpg)
![75% of World Has Access to Mobile Phones [STUDY]](http://web.archive.org/web/20120721201207im_/http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/141,americainternet600.jpg)
![What if Nelson Mandela Used Facebook to Fight Apartheid? [VIDEO]](http://web.archive.org/web/20120721201207im_/http://7.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/141,mandela-thumbnail.jpeg)
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