Tagged: google

May 6, 2013 @ 8:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Google’s stake in Lending Club could signal future dominance of P2P and P2B lending in the crowdfunding space.

May 2, 2013 @ 10:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Google has invested $125 million into peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club, placing a valuation of over $1.5 billion on the crowdfunding platform. The crowdfunding industry is abuzz, hailing this as a banner moment for crowdfunding stakeholders.

April 30, 2013 @ 7:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Google has launched a crowdfunding app called “One Today” that adds a philanthropic crowdfunding layer on top of their Google Plus social network. I recently had a chance to try the app. Every day I get a notification on my phone for the day’s cause…. Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Chris Shaw, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Kansas City-based startup accelerator and business incubator Think Big Partners has been selected by Google to be a beta tester of its exclusive Glass hardware. Google selected only 8,000 people worldwide to be part of its Glass Explorers program, an… Read More