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St Petersburg, Russia - The Red Cross, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Microsoft today announced the opening of a community technology learning center in St. Petersburg, Russia, to provide IT access, skills training and education for refugees...

REDMOND, WA - In an effort to increase worldwide computer literacy and reduce the global digital divide in technology skills, Microsoft Corp. today announced a second round of Unlimited Potential (UP) grants totaling more than $25 million (U.S.) in cash and software f...

Washington, D.C. – Community and technical colleges comprise the largest sector of higher education and are considered a critical link in preparing the number of skilled IT workers needed by business and industry to remain globally competitive. Yet most colleges are f...

NEW YORK,NY – The World Environment Center's Nineteenth Annual WEC Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development has been awarded to the Ricoh Group ("Ricoh"), a leader in enviromentally-friendly office automation products and processes...

The American Red Cross, using Web technology developed for it by Microsoft, has launched an online network to help unite loved ones with survivors of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The Family Registration Web at http://www.redcross.org/ enables those impacted by the tra...

It's no secret that nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are often short on funding and adequate technology Taiwan's are no exception. After the island country was shaken by a devastating earthquake September 1999, Microsoft Taiwan saw an opportunity to help the country rebuild, t...

The competition between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems could be described as "passionate" -- and that’s just the companies' ice hockey teams. The two teams will face off Sunday in Seattle’s Key Arena in one of the featured games of the Microsoft Hockey Challenge tournament. ...

It all started in September 1999 with 168 teens -- 59 girls and 109 boys aged 12 to 18 -- who aimed for a better life.

All were from at-risk communities in the San José metropolitan area of Costa Rica. Several had dropped out of school. ...