finance

Micro-Financing the Arts Through Kickstarter

By Greg Lambert on September 21, 2011

If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you probably know that we are big fans of the arts around here. Lisa is a writer and designer, as well as a poet… Did you know that Toby was a bassist in a rock band and one time played the Terrace Ballroom in Salt Lake City?…

No Money? There's an App for That

By Lisa Salazar on May 27, 2011

Yesterday Google announced the release of its Google Wallet app.

Taking advantage of near-field communications (NFC) technology, Google’s android now comes equiped with a app and an NFC chip that allows consumers to pay for goods and services with a quick swipe of their phone.

Different from Jack Dorsey’s Square technology, the phone does

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New and Emerging Legal Infrastructures Conference (NELIC)

By Ayelette Robinson on March 28, 2011

Toby was kind enough to highlight for me a very interesting conference scheduled for April 15 at Berkeley Law School. It’s called the New and Emerging Legal Infrastructures Conference (NELIC), and is hosted by a legal startup called Robot Robot & Hwang — two of the partners are ‘robots’; the third is Tim Hwang…

Point, Click. It's Yours!

By Lisa Salazar on March 24, 2011

As I was reading the NY Times this morning (in print, no less!), I came across the business section’s front page article, “Swiping is the Easy Part,” a story about using your mobile device like a credit card. And the ensuing struggle between banks, retailers, credit cards and mobile phone carriers who all

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