Tagged: privacy

March 29, 2016 @ 1:20 pm By Amy Wan  |  

  In translating the JOBS Act into final regulations, the SEC sought to protect investors in myriads ways: limiting certain opportunities to accredited investors, implementing caps on the annual amount certain investors may invest, and requiring certain disclosures, among other things. Understandably, the bulk of… Read More

March 8, 2016 @ 9:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Protonet, a provider of project management and collaboration solutions, announced it has upgraded its popular Carla Private Cloud Servers. Protonet was founded 2012 by Ali Jelveh andChristopher Blum and in .2014, the company was awarded the Crowdfunding World Champion by Seedmatch, with an investment of three… Read More

March 4, 2016 @ 1:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Kickstarter announced it has filed an amicus brief with sixteen other companies to support Apple in its fight to protect the privacy and security of its millions of customers. Following the devastating shooting in San Bernardino last December, a federal court ordered the technology giant… Read More

November 15, 2014 @ 10:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

New Zealand startup, TIME3 Global Limited, has launched its final round of funding through crowdfunding platform, Fundable. The company is seeking US $2.8M to commercialize its flagship product known as the Total Information Management Environment (TIME3). TIME3 is a Virtual Internet Operating System (VIOS) which offers a… Read More

December 30, 2013 @ 10:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In traveling the country and fielding numerous requests from project creators – both current and potential  – certain questions have a tendency to pop up time and time again. One question that I get surprisingly often: can I crowdfund anonymously? It was echoed in a… Read More

August 29, 2013 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A while back we reported on Hemlis, a messaging app Edward Snowden would appreciate. The team behind the app has kicked operations into high gear after their successful crowdfunding campaign, and they recently took to their blog to share updates with backers. Development on an… Read More

July 12, 2013 @ 8:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

You may have heard Peter Sunde‘s name before. He is one of the men behind The Pirate Bay, a peer-to-peer file sharing and torrent web site. He is also a co-founder of Flattr, the pseudo-crowdfunding service where users set a monthly budget that is divvied… Read More

June 17, 2013 @ 7:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

It was inevitable with the revelations that NSA Contractor Edward Snowden shared about cyber-spying that anti-spying crowdfunding campaigns would be soon to follow or  crowdfunding campaigns which  already exist – finally percolate to the surface.  While it is hard to believe there is a way… Read More

April 11, 2013 @ 9:09 am By CNET Australia  |  

A new service has come to crowd-funding site Pozible, allowing you to select exactly who you want to be able to see a campaign. You might be wondering what could possibly be the good of that? As it turns out, plenty. The new “Private” mode… Read More