In the race of solidarity against the coronavirus, the world of technology knows only one master: his majesty Google. As of April, Big G's financial contribution to the fight against Covid-19 amounted to $906,8 million. A frightening figure, above all if we consider that – in the same period – the other high tech giants have shown themselves to be much less generous.
As it emerges from a report by the German company Statista (Coronavirus: Impact on the tech industry worldwide), the second place in the standings is occupied by Cisco, which however – with 224 million dollars donated – does not even reach 25% of the sum paid by Google.
Immediately after the company specializing in networking equipment, the bronze medal goes to Facebook, which remains clear of Cisco by more than 100 million, not going beyond the 122 million mark.
The first tech giant off the podium is the lord of streaming, Netflix, which until April had donated 100 million rounds to the fight against the pandemic.
Very detached, in fifth position, there is Amazon, which – despite having made a brisk business during the global lockdown, which it resulted a surge in internet shopping – stopped with donations to less than a third of Netflix, or 31 million.
The amount unstitched by the Lord of e-commerce may seem small when compared with the donations of the first class, but it still represents more than double the funds put on the plate by Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, which did not go beyond 15 million.
In turn, Apple more than dubbed Microsoft, last among the American giants of the web with 6,9 million dollars.
Two other important companies close the ranking, but of less gigantic dimensions: Dell e Hp, with $4,1 million and $1 million, respectively.
In summary: adding the donations of all companies from second place onwards, we arrive at 504 million dollars. Just over half the amount donated by Google.
