Namco Bandai also donated 100 million yen and Temco donated 10 million yen. Sony also donated 30,000 radios.

Actually Micrsoft did donate some money, $100,000. But they also pissed everyone off by advertising there Bing website at the same time...

How you can #SupportJapan - http://binged.it/fEh7iT. For every retweet, @bing will give $1 to Japan quake victims, up to $100K.

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The reaction was predictable, or at least it should have been:   

If companies wanna help Japan victims, then just give money. Telling people to retweet is using a tragedy for marketing. @bing

Oh yes, of course. @Bing turn the largest earthquake on record to hit #Japan into a marketing opportunity. Nice work, Microsoft.

Microsoft got the message and seven hours after the first tweet sent this apology:

We apologize the tweet was negatively perceived. Intent was to provide an easy way for people to help Japan. We have donated $100K.

The tweet wasn't just negatively perceived, it was really dumb.

Bill Gates is one of the biggest philanthropists in the world and has given over $28 billion to charity. You can say what you want about Microsoft, but there is no denying that his share went to do some good. I wouldn't be shocked to see Gates make huge donations if needed.

A person's heart is more important than his actions.  After reading Gilgamesh's last post, this sound rather typical, and I wouldn't doubt that the intentions were for personal gain and not for the good of humankind.  Never sell out.

Didn't read all disscusions... the real point here is that SONY are doing what they can, as a company. 

Doesn't matter if you think this is publicity. The only thing that matters is that the Japanese are getting the support they need.

But the guy just stated Bill Gates donatings attached to news everywhere because the other man - who loves Sony bashing - said he was discusted that Sony said they did help and the value...

If he wants to take 3M as Sony port and the small PR as discuting thing... 100k with this bing maneuver were what?

Yeah, I'm sure the evil mastermind is tweeting for bing in between donating $10 billion for giving vaccines that will eliminate the suffereing of millions.

ALL donations are tax deductible. You can bet your sweet ass none of those companies would donate anything if that money wasn't tax deductible. Sorry, but that's the cold hard fact.

I don't think that everything in life is black or white. There's also grey. Bill Gates didn't have to donate billions of dollars just to avoid paying taxes. We don't know why he did it and I personally can only applaud him for doing so.

It's great to see everyone doing what they can.