Kickstarter

A controversial film about the life of former President Donald Trump in the 1970s and 1980s is adding another prominent film festival screening to its list of accolades ahead of a movie theater premiere in October. What Happened: Despite lawsuit threats from Trump and his team, the rollout of the...

KickStarter is full of ridiculous ideas, but one can also find some hidden gems. This is the case of "Slow Dance – A Frame that Slows Down Time." This project, conceived by Massachusetts artist and former Discovery Channel (NASDAQ: DISCA) anchor Jeff Lieberman, "makes...

Shamayim Harris lost her young son in a hit-and-run nearly 10 years ago. Instead of letting that sadness and despair get the best of her, she decided to make a big change. Avalon Village is located in Highland Park, Michigan. It's a city within a city amid Detroit's 147 square miles....

Yelp Inc (NYSE: YELP) shares plummeted on Thursday morning. This appeared to be a technical move, but a new Kickstarter campaign may hold the real news. A press release came out late Wednesday afternoon for "Billion Dollar Bully," a film whose Kickstarter page describes it as "An...

Two years ago, LoopPay (previously known as The Loop) was a clever concept on Kickstarter. Today it might be the most important acquisition that SAMSUNG ELECT LTD(F) (OTC: SSNLF) has ever made to compete with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). "We solved a very tough problem, which was, 'How...

The days of real estate developers penciling out a deal on the back of a napkin, putting together a spreadsheet model, showing it to a local commercial bank, and walking out with close to 100 percent loan to value financing for a "can't miss" project, are long gone. Changes in...

Net neutrality, the principle that all Internet data should be treated equally and that access to that data should be free and unfettered, is the theme behind Wednesday’s Internet Slowdown Day. Many large websites, net neutrality advocates all, have banded together to demonstrate what...

First there were smartphones, smart appliances and smart watches. Now a couple of young inventors are taking on another smart concept: a smart glove. Others have done the same, but this one -- the GoGlove by Ben Harris and Eric Ely -- was created to solve one simple problem. "When I was...

Potato salad continues to draw thousands of dollars in donations, but not everyone is amused by the results. Bloggers have been amazed by Zack Danger Brown's ability to earn more than $60,000 -- enough to buy more than 18,000 bottles of mayonnaise -- from one silly Kickstarter campaign. One...

Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin was one of the first athletes to test out the Vyper, a new product on Kickstarter. He quickly became a fan of the training tool, which was created by Hyperice. "As an athlete, I am always looking for the best tools and technology to help keep my...

Columbus, Ohio native Zack Danger Brown did not hide the fact that he wanted to make potato salad. Not satisfied with simply telling his friends and relatives on Facebook or Twitter, he took his desire to Kickstarter. "Basically I'm just making potato salad," Brown wrote on his...

Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) is reportedly close to buying a company whose first project was funded by Kickstarter. SmartThings, one of many smart home companies, released its first product in the fall of 2012. The company did so after launching a successful crowdfunding campaign. SmartThings asked for...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) isn’t the only entity involved in social media research. The Guardian revealed Tuesday that the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recorded and analyzed Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) activity as part of a program to understand the influence of...