BEZOS GAVE THE LARGEST CHARITABLE GIFT IN 2020
The world’s richest person made the single largest charitable contribution in 2020, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual list of top donations, a $10 billion gift that is intended to help fight climate change.
Amazon’s founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, whose “real-time” worth Forbes magazine estimates at roughly $188 billion, used the contribution to launch his Bezos Earth Fund. The fund, which supports nonprofits involved in the climate crisis, has paid out $790 million to 16 groups so far, according to the Chronicle.
Setting aside Bezos’ whopping gift,
heavily on productivity software to get work done without in-person meetings. Slack added 12,000 net paid customers, according to the company’s latest earnings report, up 140 percent from the same period last year. did not say what caused the Revenue swelled by 39 peroutage but noted on its cent, to $234.5 million. In service page that it affected October, the messaging app users’ ability to log in, meslisted more than 12 million sage or share files. daily users.
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large segments of the workforce to work remotely.
“We strive to keep Slack available and reliable, and in this case, we failed,” engineer Laura Nolan wrote in the May post, after a detailed technical explanation of the incident. “We know that Slack is a critical tool
for our users, and that is why we aim to learn as much as we can from every incident, whether customer visible or not.”
The communications platform has thrived during the pandemic as off ices have moved to virtual workplaces and leaned more