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March 24, 2016 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe announced on Thursday that it has named San Jose’s Overfelt High School as winner of its National Chromebooks for Classroom Challenge. Earlier this month, GoFundMe, and its partner and national distributor of school supplies, School Speciality, created a new education-specific portal as… Read More

August 4, 2015 @ 1:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last fall,  San Jose-based startup Matchstick launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $100,000 for its self-titled streaming stick that was built on Firefox OS. This project immediately hit the spotlight due to being the next “big thing” against Google Chrome. By the time its campaign closed, the streaming stick… Read More

September 17, 2014 @ 2:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

San Jose-based company, MIPOW USA, launched a Kickstarter campaign about two weeks ago for its project, the PLAYBULB candle. This new device not only offers an app, it wants to “liberate” the user’s imagination over colors. MIPOW USA stated, “We invented PLAYBULB candle simply because… Read More