Latest Crowdsourcing Stories
BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tendril®, the leader in delivering consumer engagement applications and services, announced today that winners have been chosen in the first-ever crowdsourcing challenge giving developers access to real-time customer data and feedback. The contest, which was sponsored by Tendril and Essent N.V., the Netherlands' largest energy company serving more than 2 million customers, culminated after a three-month program in which two winning...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Kickstarter is being sued for promoting a new 3D printer due to patent infringement after drumming up more than 2,000 supporters. The 3D printer in question has already helped to raise Formlabs over $2.9 million to build the device. However, one company has decided the printer was a little too familiar. 3D Systems has opened up a lawsuit against the crowd-funding website, claiming that one of its patents was being infringed by the...
NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Following on the success of their recent Kickstarter campaign for Nomsters, Large Animal Games, an independent developer of social and mobile games, today announced the start of a Kickstarter campaign for Krono, a digital collectible card game (CCG) for smartphones, tablets, and the web. The Kickstarter campaign is set to conclude on December 22nd, 2012, and the game itself will be released in Q2 2013 for iOS, Android and the web. (Photo:...
TORONTO, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The 1985 Air India terror attack remains the largest mass murder in Canadian history and the deadliest aviation disaster to occur over a body of water. It is one historic event that Canadians of that time will never forget. This is why Toronto-based Members In for Achievements Network (MIFAN) chose this important story to be its first member-supported feature film. "MIFAN is a new social media network of aspiring artists, producers, investors...
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Freelancer.com, the world's largest freelancing marketplace, today announced the acquisition of vWorker, the fourth largest marketplace globally. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120709/NY36516LOGO ) Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, vWorker has over 2.5 million enterprise and professional users from around the world, who have been paid over US$139 million through the site from 1.3 million projects. Founded by Ian Ippolito in...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Over the last decade, there has been a rapid growth in "citizen science" projects, allowing more and more science enthusiasts, hobbyists, students and other ordinary people to participate in the excitement of real-world scientific research and help solve serious scientific mysteries. This month's cover story in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society, is all about...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Facecrooks.com, a website known for educating online users about the dangerous side of social media, is creating a web series that will address five critical safety issues that people encounter on social networking sites like Facebook. To raise funds and awareness for the project, Facecrooks recently launched a campaign on Indiegogo.com, a popular crowd-funding platform. (Photo:...
VENICE BEACH, Calif., Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- When You Wish is a leading Internet "crowdfunding" startup that combines payment processing and publishing tools so everyone can easily raise money online for their ideas or causes. "There are 200 million people in Brazil including a fast growing middle class. I've spent a good deal of my life in Brazil, and I can tell you the dream of starting up a business or funding a creative pursuit is just as potent there as it is here in the...
WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, and BeyondPolio, an initiative of the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation and the investment firm Spencer Trask, today announced the solutions of its first Innovation Challenge which sought to identify ways to reduce the cost and facilitate the use of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) in low- and middle-income countries. This Challenge...
CLEVELAND, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Stand up and be counted for making a difference! NineSigma, the leading innovation partner to companies worldwide, is collaborating with the Edison Awards(TM) to identify the world's top game changing products and services and excellence in innovation leadership. Named after inventor Thomas Alva Edison, the awards were established to globally recognize, honor and foster innovation, and encourage innovators to make a positive...
