Fairmondo is an eBay-like marketplace specialising in ethical goods and services. But sellers and buyers don’t just use the platform. They own it. It’s one of a number of platform cooperatives hoping to shake up the sharing economy through community-run alternatives...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking and must-read news – major banks working together on a digital currency, Siemens joining building technology crowdsourcing community, MindSumo helping college students through crowdsourcing and many more ... Four...
Bitcoin’s own website says “Bitcoin allows exciting uses that could not be covered by any previous payment system.” That’s certainly coming true, it is now often associated with cyber-criminals and drug dealers, and to be honest that association isn't entirely...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read - crowdsourcing the fight against cancer, using machine learning to predict out-of-sample performance of trading algorithms; Canadian Olympians crowdfunding their way to Rio and many more ... ...
The global crowdfunding industry generated about $34.4 billion in capital last year. No reliable numbers are available for India though it is estimated it accounts for a small fraction of this. Yet local crowdfunding sites are proliferating and drawing attention from...
Deliveroo sparked a rebellion among a section of its London delivery workers after trying to impose a unilateral change to their pay structure. It was going to change from £7 per hour plus £1 per each delivery to a straight £3.75 per delivery. In essence this was a...
As the famous urban activist Jane Jacobs once wrote, "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." It's a truth that lies at the heart of a number of urban co-creation projects, which tap...
I wrote my first post about the DAO heist expecting it to be the end of the story. If it were a film, it would end with the successful hard fork, defeat for the attacker and our heroes triumphantly setting the blockchain back to normal. However, the story didn't end...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read – Democracy is getting a reboot on the blockchain; Startup using machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields; Moovit speeding up their delivery of real-time updates and many more...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read - AI and crowdsourcing remaking the legal profession; Kickstarter creating over 300,000 jobs; Internet's third wave coming and many more ... Artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing are remaking...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup July 15 , July 22 of the breaking news and must-read – Airbnb releasing a new poll on sharing economy, Goldman Sachs offering online lending platform, Crowdcube planning a secondary market for equity crowdfunding and more ... ...
“Lead investors” are well-versed, experienced investors who spend the time conducting due diligence on a company, and then invest a large amount in an equity crowdfunding campaign. Lead investors are a catalyst for unlocking investment from others: the funds they...
Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read - Crowdsourcing transforming the workplace; different crowdsourcing project for public service; crowdsourcing supporting machine learning and many more .. How Crowdsourcing Is Transforming The...
Before today, UK equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has raised more than £173m from over 295,000 investors to complete 426 successful raises, and described itself as the world's leading investment crowdfunding platform. Minutes ago that status was confirmed when...