Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Facebook and Google conglomerate Compact Charity



In the world of business technology, tycoons Google and Facebook are competing to be number one. However, for charities and research, they are compact to support each other.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sergey Brin of Google and technology entrepreneurs from Russia, Yuri Milner, announced the award "Breakthrough Life Sciences Prize" in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday.Eleven prize winners each received U.S. $ 3 million (Rp29 billion) for their services research efforts to cure humans of malignant diseases as well as prolong life.
Prize a total of U.S. $ 33 million - about Rp319, 6 billion - provided by Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, which is a foundation created by Zuckerberg with his wife, Brin with his wife, and Milner. For the U.S. mass media, this is a special gift from the boss for the tech giant researchers.
"Our society needs more heroes engaged in the research, of science, and engineering," said Zuckerberg. Then the convening of a special award for "those who demonstrate extraordinary effort to find a cure malignant disease and prolong human life," continued the statement from the foundation organizers.
This year there are eleven recipients, such as Shinya Yamanaka of Japan. He is a stem cell researcher who recently won the Nobel Prize in 2012 on his studies.
Chairman of the foundation's Board of Directors and Chairman of Apple, Art Levinson, revealed that they were worthy of the prize is the medical researchers in various fields, ranging from cancer, immunology, neurobiology up.
Stacy Palmer, observers from The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the conglomerates rarely assess these technologies together in a charity project. "Not usually the philanthropy that works together," said Palmer.
When combined, the conglomerates in the foundation had assets of wealth to more than U.S. $ 34 billion, based on share prices on Wall Street, according to Forbes.
With his wife, she also donated U.S. $ 30 million for a research project conducted Parkinson Foundation Michael J. Fox Foundation. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg was last December accounted for almost U.S. $ 500 million in Facebook stock to improve the schools in the area of ​​Silicon Valley, California.
Sources:http://teknologi.news.viva.co.id/news/read/392178-konglomerat-facebook-dan-google-kompak-beramal

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