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More Than A Phone: The 'Light Phone 2' Fights Back Against Addictive Technology
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 - 8:19am | 845Addicted to your smartphone? We check our phones on average 47 times per day, according to a Deloitte study. There is a growing awareness around the negative consequences of smartphone addiction. This week, Stanford students called on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) to launch an essentials product ...
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Piper Jaffray Fears 'Bully' Documentary May Harm Yelp's Share Price
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 2:32pm | 531Piper Jaffray said Yelp Inc (NYSE: YELP) shares may hit by the "Bully" documentary, which tells the tactics/practices used by Yelp and the impact it has on small businesses. "While the claims of the documentary have been the subject of scrutiny, traction with Billion Dollar Bully, regardless of...
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Not Oculus Or WhatsApp, Indiegogo CEO Thinks Mobile Drives Facebook
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 4:14pm | 387With shares trading at all-time highs and price target or rating increase becoming nearly a daily phenomenon for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), most analysts are attributing this success to the acquisitions made by the company including Oculus, Instagram and WhatsApp. However, Slava Rubin, Indiegogo...
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LunoWear's All-Natural Wrist Wear Crowdfunding Campaign Explodes On Indiegogo
Sunday, June 14, 2015 - 11:22am | 325As of this writing, LunoWear has obtained over $247,000 funding through its campaign, far exceeding the $10,000 original goal. The watchmaker has been on a mission to create affordable and all-natural wrist wear from the get go and the history of the company's founders is deeply rooted in...
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Indiegogo Founder: Netflix Is 'Impressive' And 'Incredible,' Won't Bet Against Hastings
Monday, March 16, 2015 - 3:38pm | 392Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) shares slumped by almost 4 percent Monday on back of the stock being downgraded by analysts at Evercore ISI to Sell. However, a lot of people don't agree with the downgrade. Among them is Slava Rubin, co-founder and CEO of Indiegogo. Rubin was on CNBC to...
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Marco Arment: Apple's Hardware Is 'Amazing,' But Software Quality Has 'Nosedived' Significantly
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 2:28pm | 413Former Tumblr CTO, Marco Arment recently wrote a blog post titled ‘Apple has lost the functional high ground’ in which he praised Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) for making great hardware, but criticized the company for faltering in the software department. The post reads, "Apple...
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Crowd Funding Startup Aims to Help Entrepreneurs Get Financed
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 1:33pm | 505“Minute Capital provides a crowd funding service that connects entrepreneurs, contributors, and potential investors so that funds given to the startup world can be more easily accessible to entrepreneurs through the power of the masses,” explains Jason Pang Jao, Managing Director of Finance and Co-...