“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.

• Anonymous: Day of Vengence September 24: Expect Huge Cyber Attacks in USA – September 22, 2011
• GigaOM Adds $6 Million in Funding to Push High End Analysis Service – May 26, 2011
• Flipboard Valued at $200 Million? Another Sign of an Upcoming Bubble? – April 15, 2011
• Sequoia Capital Raises New Investment Fund: $1.3 Billion – January 27, 2011
• Digg’s Traffic Slump – December 30, 2009

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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!

• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011
• WikiLeaks Needs Your Help To Take Down Corrupt Banks – October 24, 2011
• Infographic: Smartphone Apps – June 15, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Implications of Switching off the Internet – April 16, 2011

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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?

Do you think Flipboard is worth $200 million?

• Watch YouTube Playlists on iPad – November 27, 2011
• News.me Opens Up Their Amazing Social News iPad App – April 22, 2011
• Timbuktu: An iPad Magazine Specifically Design for Kids – April 8, 2011
• Boxee Launch iPad App to Stream Movies and TV Shows Over the Net – March 24, 2011
• Adam Boulton Introduces Crenk Readers to Sky News iPad App: Number 1 in the App Store – March 21, 2011

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SEC filing

Sequoia has been an investor in some of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies – Apple, Cisco, Google, YouTube.

• Pandora Radio Gets New Investment – July 14, 2009
• WikiLeaks Needs Your Help To Take Down Corrupt Banks – October 24, 2011
• China Launching Module to Practice Docking on Their Own Space Station – September 27, 2011
• GigaOM Adds $6 Million in Funding to Push High End Analysis Service – May 26, 2011
• Derwent Open Social Media Based Hedge Fund in UK – May 19, 2011

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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.

• Sequoia Capital Raises New Investment Fund: $1.3 Billion – January 27, 2011
• Slacker Radio Offers Up Music Alternative – December 23, 2009
• Yahoo’s LaunchCast To Crash and Burn? – December 3, 2008
• WikiLeaks Needs Your Help To Take Down Corrupt Banks – October 24, 2011
• Pandora Launches All New Website – September 21, 2011

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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.

• TechCrunch Hits 1 Million Milestone – September 14, 2008
• WikiLeaks Needs Your Help To Take Down Corrupt Banks – October 24, 2011
• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Share and Listen to Music on Facebook with Spotify – September 23, 2011
• AOL Consolidating Blog Brands into 20 Power Brands! – July 4, 2011

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