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The co-creation company Genius Crowds announced that it is shuttering its doors last week. We had a chance to speak with the company's cofounder and CEO CJ Kettler about what went wrong.
We take a look at Vourno, a crowdfunding platform for journalists, that launched earlier today.
Mark Cuban plans to update the Dallas Mavericks' uniforms, and he's turning to the crowd for help.
Hyperfund is an equity crowdfunding platform that's set to launch later this year. We reached out to the platform's VP of business development, David Schmelke, to find out more about the platform and his thoughts on the crowdfunding space in general.
We take a look at Polar, a crowd-powered voting app that wants to make collecting feedback social, engaging, and fun.
Earlier today, French equity crowdfunding platform WiSeed announced a €1 million ($1.3 million) raise from its community of investors.
The U.K.-based equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube raised £1.5 million ($2.3 million) though a self-run campaign, the company announced last week.
Kickstarter's cofounders penned a blog post last night that defended the popular but controversial Veronica Mars and Zach Braff crowdfunding campaigns. Those two projects' backers have donated over $400,000 to other campaigns on the platform thus far, they pointed out.
Facebook is once again rumored to be close to acquiring Waze, the crowdsourced traffic app. The reported price tag is somewhere between $800 million and $1 billion.
We feature a conversation with Jesper Juul Andersen of charity crowdfunding platform BetterNow to find out his platform and how donation-based crowdfunding is developing in Europe.
OpenStreetMap launched a new map editing tool yesterday, hoping to make the editing process easier and thus entice more contributors.
Donald Trump, one of the most prominent businessmen in the world, joined the crowdfunding industry by investing in and helping to launch the new platform FundAnything.
The equity crowdfunding platform CircleUp announced today a $7.5 million Series A funding round.
We take a look at NPR's Kickstarter campaign, which just passed the $300,000 mark, and discuss some other crowdfunded journalism initiatives.
We take a look at crowdsourced lost and found platform crowdfynd, which launched roughly two weeks ago.
An MIT professor is experimenting with pattern-recognition software and crowdsourcing to help identify individual animals from endangered species.
The crowdfunding industry is growing at a fast clip, and growth is only going to accelerate, according to massolution's 2013CF Crowdfunding Industry Report. We share an infographic by GoGetFunding that shows some of the statistics and trends around crowdfunding.
Airbnb has rolled out a new Verified ID feature in hopes of promoting more trust among its community members.
Crowdsourced photos are fast and cheap, but are they real? One Finnish startup thinks it may have a possible solution to the verification problem.
We take a look at Seesaw, a crowdsourced decision making app created by the founders of CoTweet.
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