September 9, 2013
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A five minute guide on peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding
THE nightmare for savers looks set to drag on and on, with inflation at 2.8 per cent and the Bank of England determined to freeze...
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September 9, 2013
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France to support private 'crowdfunding'
France is drafting a new law that aims to make the practice of pooling resources to fund private ventures easier and more competitive, but the...
September 9, 2013
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Hex Airbot Shatters Crowdfunding Goal For Its Cheap, 3D Printed Drones
Hex’s tiny Airbot drone first turned heads earlier this year at China-based hardware acceleratorHaxlr8r’s second demo day, and now the team behind it is finally pushing to...
September 6, 2013
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Crowd-funding: Can mass appeal translate into street smarts?
Securities regulators in Canada and the United States are considering endorsing crowd-funding, an unsettling prospect to anyone who thinks crowds are more inclined to generate...
September 6, 2013
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Crowdfund A $65 Robot That Runs Like A Maniac Cockroach
The Dash, created by Dash Robotics, is an insect-inspired simple robot kit that runs like the fastest, most rectangular cockroach ever. There's a crowdfunding campaign and beta test,...
September 6, 2013
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Crowdfunding Hardware With a Helping Hand From GE
One of the biggest headaches on crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo is vaporware: hardware projects that never materialize or arrive much later than their...
September 6, 2013
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From crowdfunding to ‘real’ business: this glasses-free 3D tablet is trying to go big
What happens after the crowdfunding campaign — after Indiegogo or Kickstart, and after delivering the products that you promised? If you’re NEO3DO, the answer is...
September 6, 2013
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Mailpile Encrypted E-Mail Successfully Funds on Indiegogo, Then PayPal Freezes Their Account
These shenanigans have happened in the past. Skullgirl Studio – Lab Zero – experienced a PayPal freeze out in April 2013. GlassUp experienced something similar just several...
September 6, 2013
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PayPal Has a Crowdfunding Problem
Late Wednesday evening, the founders behind Mailpile, a privacy-centric email client that's already raised north of $130,000 on Indiegogo, received a message no crowdfunder wants...