Inside Amazon's, Facebook's and Google's self-serving 'philanthropy'

Technology companies tend to couch their products not as businesses for profit, but as gifts to humanity.
The HBO comedy Silicon Valley so thoroughly mocked this impulse that I heard companies in the valley ordered their spokespeople to stop using the phrase "making the world a better place."
For the biggest tech giants, faux philanthropy masks an obvious customer acquisition strategy.
Making the world a more literate place
Amazon says a billion people in the world have no access to books. That