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MAY 15, 2014

Hugh Evans | Fast Company | Business Innovation : A decade later, in 2008--after volunteering in India with Mother Teresa''s Missionaries of Charity and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for not-for-profits--Evans founded the Global Poverty Project (GPP), an insanely optimistic effort to help the world''s needy.

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JULY 18, 2011

Nor is it that people have gone gaga over smartphones, with one in three Americans owning one. Rather, it's the idea that the Internet, in particular social networks, engender trust, and the more time you spend on them the more trusting you become."

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JULY 25, 2011

- McKinsey Quarterly - Marketing & Sales - Digital Marketing : "New McKinsey research highlights a dramatic increase in the intensity with which people use digital devices and platforms. Nearly 50 percent of US online consumers are now advanced users of smartphones, social networks, and other emerging tools—up from 32 percent in 2008."

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AUGUST 17, 2011

“GOOD has managed to establish really the pre-eminent content platform with three million unique visitors a month,” said Chris Hughes, Jumo’s founder and a veteran of Facebook as well as a digital organizer for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

82 Million User-Generated Content Creators and CountingMore than 82 million people in the US created content online during 2008, a number expected to grow to nearly 115 million by 2013 according to numbers released by eMarketer.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

FT.com / Home UK / UK - Give and tech: "Give and techBy Emily StokesPublished: January 26 2008 02:00 | Last updated: January 26 2008 02:00In the world of Venture Philanthropy, charity begins globally and, more often than not, online.

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MAY 22, 2008

Finextra: Qualcomm backs SMS charity donation service: "21 May 2008 - 13:33Qualcomm backs SMS charity donation serviceUS wireless technology developer Qualcomm has become the founding patron of the Mobile Giving Foundation (MGF), a new service that enables people to make charity donations via SMS text message.MGM says the founding donation from Qualcomm (..)

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