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Pebble, the company behind the eponymous smartwatch, announced on Thursday that it secured $15 million in Series A funding from VC firm Charles River Ventures.
At age 22, Anthony Ng Monica has already completed two successful crowdfunding campaigns to fund his startup, Swogo. We recently caught up with the young, tech-savvy CEO to learn more about his business, crowdfunding for equity, and why buying a laptop can be so damn frustrating.
At age 22, Anthony Ng Monica has already completed two successful crowdfunding campaigns to fund his startup, Swogo. We recently caught up with the young, tech-savvy CEO to learn more about his business, crowdfunding for equity, and why buying a laptop can be so damn frustrating.
With ChatBasket, Alex Andon hopes to marry stories and retail in a new e-commerce model. It’s a daily deals site with a social twist: the crowd can chat with the artisans and entrepreneurs selling products through the platform.
Last week, we spoke with Alysia Wanczyk, marketing director for the U.K.-based, crowdfunding platform Seedrs, to learn about the platform’s progress and plans for the future.
Crowdsourcing.org spoke with Alysia Wanczyk, marketing director for the U.K.-based crowdfunding platform Seedrs, to learn about the company's progress and plans for the future.
Nepal-based CloudFactory last week launched an enhanced version of its microtasking platform, which the company is calling CloudFactory 2.0.
Ahead of today’s PlayStation Meeting, where Sony is expected to reveal its next PlayStation console, 99designs hosted a community contest for its crowd of graphic artists to imagine the design of the PlayStation 4 logo.
Leaders from the crowdfunding industry in the U.S. are in Washington D.C. today to apply some gentle pressure on regulators who are now several weeks behind on issuing rules under which the nascent securities market will operate.
At the DICE 2013 conference Wednesday, Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman revealed that Tim Schafer’s Kickstarter-funded video game Double Fine Adventure will launch on the Android-based console. She added that Ouya will offer the only TV experience for the game, suggesting that Double Fine Adventure will not come to other home consoles.
In the latest episode of Bonus Round, Gametrailers’ weekly show about the video game industry, gaming experts Seamus Blackley, Marcus Beer, and Jeff Cannata discuss crowdfunding for video games — specifically, the continuing viability of Kickstarter as a funding mechanism for both indie and mainstream game developers.
On Friday, Y Combinator announced it would fund Watsi, a crowdfunding site that connects patients in need of low-cost, high-impact medical care with donors willing to fund their treatment.
A Kickstarter campaign for Pathfinder Online, an online role-playing video game from Seattle-based Goblinworks Inc., surpassed its $1 million funding goal today, just five hours before the deadline.
This week, Kickstarter released a ‘Best of 2012’ feature detailing its myriad accomplishments during the last twelve months. Here are the numbers you need to know… and a few we’ve thrown in just for fun.
The Journal News, a suburban New York newspaper, set off a fiery debate about transparency and open data Saturday when it posted an interactive Google Map showing the names and addresses of all handgun permit holders in New York's Westchester and Rockland Counties.
Creative software company Adobe Systems announced Thursday that it acquired New York-based social media platform Behance, which boasts a designer community of more than one million members.
Scientific American is teaming up with open innovation platform InnoCentive to launch the Scientific American Open Innovation Pavilion, an online hub where citizen scientists will come together to tackle scientific challenges that stump companies, non-profits, and governments.
Code Hero, “a game that teaches you to make games,” raised over $170,000 on Kickstarter this past February — nearly double Primer Labs’ original goal of $100,000. As the months passed, however, the campaign effectively fell apart.
Despite crowdfunding’s democratic appeal, not everyone is on board. Crowdsourcing.org Editor Eric Blattberg silences the critics by outlining five reasons crowdfunding works.
U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) is working on a bill to establish better due process requirements for the federal seizure of domain names — and she’s asking the Reddit community for help.
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