RNC sponsors have second thoughts as online activists notch win - CNET
Enlarge ImageMembers of activist groups ColorOfChange and Credo Action chant while delivering 500,000 petition signatures to Google's HQ. Credo One by one they dropped out.Hewlett-Packard, which donated $1 million in funds and tech equipment to the past two Republican National Conventions, abruptly said it would snub this year's GOP gathering in Cleveland. Apple, which committed computers and iPhones to the last two Republican conventions, also sent its regrets. Motorola, which donated more than $600,000 during the 2012 RNC, followed suit. The series of cancellations caps a remarkable victory for ColorOfChange and Credo Action, online activist groups that began pressuring some of the biggest corporations in...
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