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February 19, 2014 @ 10:13 am By Charles Luzar  |  

UCLA has launched UCLA Spark, an online crowdfunding platform aimed at providing critical fundraising support for innovative projects by UCLA faculty and official student organizations. The platform launches today with five active projects covering topics like females in software engineering, landmark preservation and caring for cancer… Read More

August 16, 2013 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Ubuntu Edge smartphone has surpassed the Pebble Watch‘s rewards-based crowdfunding record of $10,266,845. However, unless Canonical can find $22 million more in funding it may end up being all for naught. The campaign for the Edge is a fixed funding campaign, which means that… Read More

July 17, 2013 @ 11:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Any platform carrying a goal of taking market share from Kickstarter is going to have a long road ahead, but that is precisely what JumpStartCity hopes to accomplish. They’re reaching out to their network of followers and fans to build a larger social reach in… Read More