Sevenhugs, the technology startup, announced Wednesday (Dec. 14) it reached $1 million in SmartRemote pre-orders on Kickstarter. Sevenhugs’ Smart Remote, which allows users to control any device by pointing at it, was named as one of the most innovative productd in the CES 2017 Smart Home...
It’s not an idle question, according to TechCrunch, which reports that some industry watchers cheering the eventual displacement of traditional financing mechanisms, at least for tech, may be misguided. In fact, said the outlet, Kickstarter and other sites have been finding traction and helping to...
Amazon Launchpad announced on Wednesday (July 27) that it was launching a “Kickstarter Collection” feature, where customers could shop for more than 300 products crowdfunded on the Kickstarter platform in “one convenient place,” including everything from virtual reality headsets to “smart” herb gardens. Startups featured...
GoFundMe has risen to the arguable top of the crowdfunding heap in recent months, becoming the platform that springs to mind and headlines for grassroots funding. The key, as a recent Forbes article notes, is the fact that the company has had a key differentiator...
May 07, 2019
Sources have told Bloomberg that Fidelity Investments will launch its own crypto trading platform within a few weeks. Fidelity Digital Assets was created in October, and will soon offer over-the-counter buying and selling for bitcoin. But unlike other platforms, Fidelity will only serve institutional customers. “We currently have a select set of clients we’re supporting […]
December 15, 2016
Sevenhugs, the technology startup, announced Wednesday (Dec. 14) it reached $1 million in SmartRemote pre-orders on Kickstarter. Sevenhugs’ Smart Remote, which allows users to control any device by pointing at it,...
September 25, 2015
GoFundMe has risen to the arguable top of the crowdfunding heap in recent months, becoming the platform that springs to mind and headlines for grassroots funding. The key, as a...
January 22, 2015
Similar to how Kickstarter revolutionized crowdsourcing projects through e-payments, Lighthouse hopes to move that into the undertapped Bitcoin sphere of influence starting yesterday (Jan. 21), when the site went public...
