Tagged: facebook

March 28, 2014 @ 9:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It seems everyone has an opinion on Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR and what it means for crowdfunding. That was the topic of conversation on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.” Yesterday the program hosted New York University Stern School of Business Professor Anindya Ghose and a… Read More

March 27, 2014 @ 1:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

So did you hear that Facebook bought Oculus VR for $2 billion? It’s the story that the entire tech world was talking about, and for good reason. Oculus is a clear leader in the world of virtual reality hardware. It’s one of the poster children… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 6:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a post on the Oculus blog site, the start up tech company disclosed they were joining Facebook.  The deal was valued at $2 billion including $400 million in cash and 23.1 million in Facebook shares, plus an added $300 million payout in cash and… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 5:50 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Mark Zuckerberg just announced Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR in a post to… you guessed it. Post by Mark Zuckerberg. WOW. Early investor Chris Dixon lauded the team… I can’t say enough about the Oculus team. Palmer, Brendan, John, Nate, and the rest of the… Read More

March 11, 2014 @ 10:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In this video Motley Fool analysts David Hanson, Tyler Riggs, and Matt Koppenheffer debate peer-to-peer lending. Interestingly, about halfway through the video the trio begins to discuss Google and Facebook getting into the peer-to-peer lending space. Will they? It bears mentioning that Google Capital is an… Read More

February 3, 2014 @ 3:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In the ever-growing crowdfunding community, peer lending reigns supreme. A TD Economics report we covered last week estimates the size of the global crowdfunding industry at somewhere between $3 and $5 billion in 2013. Of the sites responsible for this emergent shift in capital access,… Read More

January 8, 2014 @ 9:38 am By Kendall Almerico  |  

The SEC’s 90-day comment period for the proposed JOBS Act equity crowdfunding rules ends in late January 2014. There is a chance that we could see the first JOBS Act crowdfunding campaigns as early as April, although I am not holding my breath on that… Read More

December 17, 2013 @ 11:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Charities and nonprofits have something to celebrate today thanks to a new feature emerging from the Facebook camp. The world’s largest social network has added the option to solicit donations from visitors to a charity’s page and viewers of posts. A “Donate Now” button is… Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 9:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Annemarie Tierney is General Counsel for SecondMarket, an online marketplace for buying and selling illiquid assets in the United States. SecondMarket burst onto the scene during the run-up to the Facebook IPO by facilitating transactions in Facebook shares sold by Facebook employees to members of… Read More

September 20, 2013 @ 8:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The University of California today launched Promise for Education, a six-week crowdfunding campaign that will bring together students, faculty, alumni, celebrities, influencers and supporters to raise money for UC student scholarships.  Promise for Education allows individuals to make a personal promise – run a marathon, adopt a pet,… Read More

August 21, 2013 @ 6:47 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Facebook has a long-standing policy that rewards hackers with a bounty if they can find a bug in Facebook’s system. Bounties can be as little as $500, but there is no maximum. Facebook makes a judgement call based on the severity of the bug and… Read More

June 22, 2013 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Recognizing another opportunity to engage consumers while providing a needed service, Amazon has begun offering Gift Cards which you may crowdfund with others.  They believe that by offering customers the ability to “Grow An Amazon Birthday Gift with the help of your friends“, customers can… Read More

April 27, 2013 @ 8:09 am By JD Alois  |  

In an interesting dissertation authored by Alexey Moisseyev from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, College of Business Administration, he tackles an ongoing assumption pertaining to crowdfunding success.  His research on crowdfunding, titled  EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON CROWDFUNDING PROJECT RESULTS, tackles these assumptions head on… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 10:02 am By Charles Luzar  |  

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March 28, 2013 @ 8:56 am By Jessica Holzer  |  

WASHINGTON—The so-called JOBS Act is yet to deliver a big boost to initial public offerings. The one-year-old law, officially the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, was aimed at helping companies with less than $1 billion in sales go public. But IPOs of such companies in… Read More

December 5, 2012 @ 10:34 am By Wired.co.uk  |  

To level the playing field against the enormous warrior Goliath, biblical hero David had a sling and five stones. To level the playing field against global internet powerhouse Facebook, a persistent group of Austrian law students have a crowdfunding website. The site, crowd4privacy.org, is where the… Read More

December 4, 2012 @ 9:21 pm By The Sydney Morning Herald  |  

An Austrian student group plans to go to court in a bid to make Facebook do more to protect the privacy of its 1 billion users. Campaign group europe-v-facebook, which has been lobbying for reforms at the US company for more than a year, said… Read More