The micro-finance model has been applied to fundraising efforts like political campaigns and non-profit lending on websites like Kiva, but in these instances there’s little or no expectation that the loans will ever be repaid, or in the case Kiva one assumes that this money, once returned, remains circulating in the charitable system, backing other [...]
Filed under: Business, Community, Technology on July 31st, 2009 @ 10:01 am
Tagged with: Business, funding, interface, investing, investment, lending, loans, networks, opportunities, opportunity, peer-to-peer
As our culture shifts towards greater immediacy and connectivity enabled by faster mobile networks and loaded handsets, we’re witnessing a profound change in consumer expectations that is having an effect across multiple industries from finance and technology to media and entertainment. Much of this is being fueled by the development of applications that seek to [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 22nd, 2009 @ 4:31 pm
Tagged with: Business, growth, innovative, interface, internet, investing, mobile, mobile applications, networks, niche, smartphones, Technology, web
I recently wrote about a trend within the music industry that sees a shift away from illegal file-sharing towards streaming models being offered by sites like YouTube, Pandora and Spotify. And while this is by no means a sign that piracy is a thing of the past, it represents a change in attitude that presents [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 22nd, 2009 @ 3:14 pm
Tagged with: Clikthrough, funding, innovation, interactive, interface, music, music industry, online, startup, streaming music, Technology, video
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.