Google released their fourth quarter 2005 earnings today at 1:30PM Pacific Time. To summarize, although Google performed spectacularly, they didn’t please Wall Street, resulting in after hours trading activity that shaved 10-20% off the stock price. This translates into a 60-70 dollar decline in the stock price. Its a BIG deal when stuff like this… Continue reading Google Misses Earnings, Partly Because of the Cost of Creating Google Foundation

Human rights activist and former wife of Martin Luther King Jr. has passed away. Link here to AP article: …in 1969, founded the multimillion-dollar Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. King saw to it that the center became deeply involved with the issues she said breed violence — hunger, unemployment, voting rights… Continue reading In Memory of Coretta Scott King

Some more good news came out today from Davos about how Microsoft is trying to tackle the problem of the growing digital divide. Its exciting to hear that other organizations are thinking about how to solve this problem (thanks to Negroponte and his $100 Laptop Project for building the momentum). I like how Microsoft is… Continue reading Microsoft Pitching In To Close the Digital Divide: Cell Phone Based Internet Connection

Why the World Economic Forum is relevant to social entrepreneurship: The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Geneva-based foundation whose Annual Meeting of chief executives of the world’s richest corporations, some national political leaders (presidents, prime ministers and others), and selected intellectuals and journalists, about 2000 people in all, is usually held in Davos, Switzerland.… Continue reading The Relevance of The World Economic Forum to Social Entrepreneurship

I recently wrote about Nicholas Negroponte and what he’s trying to do with the $100 dollar laptop initiative. Well, there is an update about it coming out of the Annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos– Reuters reports that the UN body is backing the project: The United Nations has thrown its weight behind a… Continue reading UN body backs $100 laptop for world’s kids

Education is a space that has truly benefited from the work of social entrepreneurs. You can tell by looking at the Social Capitalist Awards that a lot of great innovators are doing some good things to improve education, particularly in underserved areas. At the college level, for-profit institutes have been popping up at a feverish… Continue reading New York Moves to Limit Colleges That Seek Profit

TreePeople is a non-profit organization in Los Angeles that I was very active in for a very long time. TreePeople’s goal is: …to inspire the people of Los Angeles to take personal responsibility for the urban forest – educating, training and supporting them as they plant and care for trees and improve the neighborhoods in… Continue reading TreePeople: Greening urban communities one tree at a time

Here is a post from an online marketing blog describing a “user generated content” site that is touting itself as the “PBS of the web” — you can read their press release here. Here is a quote from the website: The Digital Universe is an intuitively organized, multimedia Web that will inform, educate, engage and… Continue reading PBS of the Web!

Its MLK Day today. Martin Luthor King Jr. was one of the greatest social innovators to live during our time. You can read all about him at Wikipedia. I hope that everyone has an opportunity today to get out there and make a difference in the community!