| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.12.2013 | Impact investing – Turning a profit for ‘humankind’ | BY preetamkaushik. Regular business investments are measured on the success barometer by their ability to deliver a financial return. Investing in the social sector, referred to as impact investing, presents an additional ... |
| 13.11.2013 | Robin Hood Ventures leads $1.25m round in DreamIt grad PeerActive [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Alliqua, a Langhorne, Pa. biotech company focused on wound care, raised $1 million from Boston-based Crossover Healthcare Fund, according to a release.
Chris Sugden, managing partner at Edison Ventures, was named the N... |
| 10.09.2013 | Sign company's abducted woman decal spurs backlash | (MoneyWatch) A Waco, Texas, sign company hoped to make a name for itself with a pickup truck tailgate decal that looked like an abducted woman did just that -- and triggered a backlash. Then Hornet Signs compounded the problem by botching i... |
| 14.11.2012 | Corbis Acquires Crowd-Sourced Photo Agency Demotix, After Its Move Into Apps | Image giant Corbis has acquired Demotix, the crowd-sourced, breaking news picture and video agency which launched in 2008 and recently hit the milestone of a million images uploaded. The move follows Corbis’ investment in the startup after ... |
| 11.10.2012 | Demotix Hits A Million Images, Proving The Crowd-Sourced Picture Agency Can Work | We’ve been covering Demotix since their controversial launch in 2008 and frankly the jury at the time was out on whether they really could create what many had tried and failed to do: a crowd-sourced, breaking news pictures and video agency... |
| 13.04.2012 | The Other Sinister Plot At Groupon | Editor’s note: Surya Yalamanchili was previously a brand manager at Procter & Gamble and has worked at LinkedIn and Groupon. Follow him on Twitter @suryasays.
I love Silicon Valley. Love almost everything about the technology ecosystem.... |
| 04.05.2011 | Datran Media Acquires Citizen Journalism Platform Allvoices | Exclusive: Digital Marketing company Datran Media has acquired Allvoices, a fast-growing citizen journalism platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed by the companies but we hear the acquisition was a mixture of cash and stoc... |
| 05.03.2011 | Ad shift to social media | Facebook display ad revenues expected to grow 81% this year to $2.19 billion
Major advertisers, those who buy display ads, are finally beginning to figure out how to reach audiences through social networks, and have begun to shift significa... |
| 06.02.2011 | To Cops At Least, Criminal Oversharing is Caring | Sharing – any greetings card poet will tell you – is caring. Which is just one of the many reasons you shouldn’t pay attention to greetings card poets.
Thanks to social media – Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instabloodygram – global sharing is... |
| 27.12.2010 | Flicksquare Sends Your Foursquare Check-In Photos To Flickr | Inspired by a tweet from First Round Capital VC Charlie O’Donnell (“Can someone hack a Foursquare app that cc’s my checkin photos to Flickr?”), developer Benny Wong has created Flicksquare, an app that takes advantage of Foursquare’s recent... |
| 15.12.2010 | Battling Wikileaks And The Art Of War | Anyone who has studied tactics, for battle or otherwise, knows Sun Tzu’s legendary work, The Art Of War. Or at least they should. In reviewing what the first chapter of that work teaches about the five factors a battling faction must consid... |
| 08.12.2010 | Global Domination: CNN iReport Has Now Published From Every Country on Earth | It’s no Pambazuka News, but CNN’s four-year-old citizen journalism site iReport, does have a fairly high profile. Attached as it is to the pioneer in 24 hour cable news channels with a global reach, it shouldn’t surprise that it also has a ... |
| 31.08.2010 | Glenn Beck launches news and opinion site | The political commentator creates The Blaze to put conservative edge on stories
Thought you’d heard the last of Glenn Beck? Think again (foolish mortal). The controversial conservative commentator now has his own news and opinion Web site, ... |
| 02.07.2010 | Citizen Journalism Platform Allvoices Growing Fast Thanks To Global Expansion | We’ve written about Allvoices, a citizen journalism platform that is seeing fast growth internationally. In fact, the site, which was launched in 2008, is even approaching CNN’s iReport in terms of worldwide traffic.
According to comScore’s... |
| 09.06.2010 | Roundup: Firing Steve Jobs, making calls from Gchat and more | Here’s the latest action:
Gmail to marry Google Voice — Gmail chat is undergoing a lot of changes (you might have recognized a recent redesign), and it’s getting even more powerful with Google Voice integration. Now you can place and receiv... |
| 05.05.2010 | Demotix Introduces Video, Redesign | Today, one year-old Demotix, the London-based citizen journalism site, has introduced video to its popular photo-centric site.
Demotix, the winner of a Media Guardian Innovation Award, has placed its crowd-sourced photos on the front pages ... |
| 28.04.2010 | Ask.com founder jumps into citizen journalism at Allvoices | In the mid-1990s, technologist David Warthen (right) founded the quirky search engine Ask Jeeves, which used natural language search technology to guide users to one shining answer for whatever they wanted. Ask Jeeves was one of the dot-com... |
| 28.04.2010 | Ask.com founder jumps into citizen journalism at Allvoices | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In the mid-1990s, technologist David Warthen (rig... |
| 09.04.2010 | Citizen Journalism Platform AllVoices Sets Up News Desks In 30 Cities Around The World | AllVoices, a fast-growing citizen journalism platform, is announcing significant expansion today. The startup is launching global news desks in 30 different cities around the world, where both professional and citizen journalists will provi... |
| 26.01.2010 | AllVoices Raises $3 Million For Citizen Journalism Site; Takes CNN's iReport Head-On | With the events that took place in Iran last year, the Mumbai bombings and even the plane crash on the Hudson River, there’s no doubt of the power of citizen journalism in today’s media age. Whether it be through social media sites, such as... |
| 08.10.2009 | 2 Reasons Why Twitter May Not Be Worth So Much to Google and Microsoft After All | Google and Microsoft are both in talks with Twitter to buy access to the company’s full fire hose of messages and shared links, according to a report this morning from Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. Could these be blockbuster deals that bring ... |
| 27.09.2009 | Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies | As part of our lead-up to The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, which is just over two weeks away, in this post we’re listing 50 leading companies of the Real-Time Web. Like any list, it is bound to be missing some worthy companies – so we in... |
