US mobile users donate $10m

SAN FRANCISCO - Mobile phone users in the US have given more than $10 million (€6

SAN FRANCISCO - Mobile phone users in the US have given more than $10 million (€6.9 million) to Haitian relief through text messages in an unprecedented response to a natural disaster. The Mobile Giving Foundation called it a "mobile-giving record" for funds raised for a single cause. - (Reuters)

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