Wikileaks seems to be fighting their biggest battle yet! Funding!
“WikiLeaks has lost an estimated 95% of donations due to financial blockade,” WikiLeaks spokeswoman Kristinn Hrafnsson said. “It could have received 40 million to 50 million Euros if it weren’t for the blockade,” she added.
Wikileaks has been blocked via Paypal, Visa and more. However, there are other ways to donate. All you need to do is check out their support page for full details.
p.s. not sure if these donations are tax deductable.
I quickly wanted to drop an article about the recent funding of Gigaom. Gigaom is a technology blog network that has managed to grab an additional $6 million in funding, which brings their total to $15 million.
Gigaom will use the new funding to push out their Gigaom Pro analysis service.
“We have demonstrated that paid content (not paywalls) can work, as long as you can provide value to your community,” Malik writes. ” Just as we never positioned GigaOM to compete with traditional media outlets, I believe we are charting our own course with our GigaOM Pro research service. “And it is working. It is working so well that we really need to put more gas in the engine to grow it even faster.”
Its great to see that blog networks are still thriving!
Flipboard is an amazing iPad application that turns your facebook, twitter and google reader, into their own iPad magazine. Flipboard is a great iPad application, but is it really worth $200 million? Well thats how much their latest funding round values the company at. Flipboard confirmed a $50 million round in funding.
Flipboard’s funding included some great investors, including Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and actor Ashton Kutcher.
Flipboard are obviously very thrilled with the new round of funding and valuation, but is this valuation a sign of an upcoming tech bubble?
SEC filing has shown that Sequoia Capital has raised a new $1.3 billion fund. Sequoia Capital plans on using the fund to continue the firm’s focus on investment in early and growth stage technology companies in the U.S. and expand its investment efforts in those same sorts of early stage companies in China.
Sequoia has been an investor in some of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies – Apple, Cisco, Google, YouTube.
Internet radio has taken off in the last few years. This is because more and more people are using smart-phones and using laptops on the go. Not to mention the fact that you can listen to your favourite radio station whilst holidaying in Australia or backpacking through Europe. Then, along came Internet based radio. This meant that there was no traditional radio station (ie. On a radio) for a particular company – it solely exists on the internet.
Pandora became one of the biggest streaming high quality music and advertisements across the web. Now, they have secured a massive investment from Greylock Partners of around $35 million dollars!
Currently, Pandora plays advertisements in order to make ends meet. Now, after securing this investment there is talk of charging listeners who tune in for over 40 hours every month 99c or an annual premium of $39 for unlimited listening and elimination of all the advertisements.
“New funds will be used toward the continued growth and development of Pandora” said Pandora.
It’s a good move to. Now that people are ditching podcasts more and more in search of radio – investing now would be wise. And when media players and internet speeds improve – internet TV would be no shock appearance.
TechCrunch has been a well known site for everything tech and media related. With millions of readers and followers, TechCrunch has done an amazing job in helping young fledgling startups get noticed. What began as TechCrunch 20, then 40, and now 50, it looks to once again be the opportunity that every startup is waiting for. In just under a week the San Francisco Design Center Concourse will be transformed into a showcase floor for entrepreneurs, new technology, and VC’s looking for the “next big thing.” The DemoPit, where all the magic happens. Paired with this display are panels of speakers who will share their thoughts and expertise with the attendees, expected to be over 900 this year alone.
The event gives the startups an opportunity to share, explain, and possibly have their ideas funded. Companies have a high chance of being launched at this event, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Thanks to all the sponsors who help support and foster an event where these startups can find growth and a possible future!
Keep track of this event, and check back here for some of the highlights of the event.
SEC filing
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