Tagged: iOS

October 22, 2013 @ 10:03 am By JD Alois  |  

The Tile item finder, which put a new spin on finding lost items, raised over $2.6 Million doing a Self-Starter crowdfunding campaign becoming the most successful Self-Starter campaign ever.  The company was founded by Nick Evans and Mike Farley in 2012.  Evans had previously worked… Read More

October 10, 2013 @ 3:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Perfect Match for Apple iPad. As soon as we watched the Kickstarter pitch video provided by the ISKN team you could see the product was going to be a crowdfunding hit.  This smart iPad cover does everything you want it to do.  Their goal was… Read More

September 26, 2013 @ 10:50 am By Charles Luzar  |  

San Francisco’s Crowdtilt has just released an app for iOS devices that allows users to create or contribute to crowdfunding campaigns right from their smartphones. Click here to get the app. Features of the app include the following… Quickly start, contribute to and/or manage campaigns… Read More

September 23, 2013 @ 11:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Germany’s Chaos Computer Club is claiming victory in a contest to see who’d be the first to hack Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint scanning system. The system provides an extra layer of security for Apple’s new iPhone 5S and 5C. A crowdfunded bounty was offered for… Read More

September 19, 2013 @ 3:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

@nickdepetrillo and @ErrataRob on Twitter have written a script that is amassing crowdfunding pledges made via tweets. The goal: incentivize hackers to hack the new Apple iPhone’s fingerprint scanner. All I ask is a video of the process from print, lift, reproduction and successful unlock… Read More

September 14, 2013 @ 11:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Juices+ is crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The campaign has already more than doubled a $40,000 goal for their premium USB phone charging cables. The campaign is just a few thousand dollars short of a big stretch goal that would unlock a gold anodized version of their… Read More

September 10, 2013 @ 10:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The iSketchnote for the iPad launched a Kickstarter campaign today seeking $35,000 in funding, and the campaign has already reached over $20,000 in pledges. With one look at the device it is easy to see why. The iSketchnote is a drawing pad that links directly… Read More

August 29, 2013 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A while back we reported on Hemlis, a messaging app Edward Snowden would appreciate. The team behind the app has kicked operations into high gear after their successful crowdfunding campaign, and they recently took to their blog to share updates with backers. Development on an… Read More

August 25, 2013 @ 3:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Tile locator device successfully crowdfunded $2,681,297 using the self crowdfunding application “SelfStarter” becoming the most successfully self crowdfunded campaign ever. The crowdfunding campaign not only raised more than enough funds to fulfill the financing needs of the company but indicated a growing market interest… Read More

August 2, 2013 @ 9:34 am By JD Alois  |  

HOT smartwatch adds itself to the growing list of successfully crowdfunded smartwatches. Beats goal in first 30 hours. More validation of the pent up demand for wearable tech in the form of a “smartwatch”,  Hot Watch easily surpassed their initial crowdfunding goal of $150,000 in… Read More

July 16, 2013 @ 8:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently reported on SeedInvest Groups, a product aimed at angel groups and other investor networks. Recently the STAR Angel Network leveraged SeedInvest groups to close a round for Cincinnati-based mobile app startup LISNR. It’s a somewhat ridiculous event: hop on a bus to SXSW,… Read More

July 12, 2013 @ 8:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

You may have heard Peter Sunde‘s name before. He is one of the men behind The Pirate Bay, a peer-to-peer file sharing and torrent web site. He is also a co-founder of Flattr, the pseudo-crowdfunding service where users set a monthly budget that is divvied… Read More

July 11, 2013 @ 2:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pebble Holding an AMA on Reddit today at 3PM EST Eric Migicovsky and Team Pebble posted an update on their Kickstarter update page sharing they have registered over 275,000 Pebbles being pre-ordered since they launched their now famous crowdfunding campaign.  This number includes the 190,000… Read More

June 27, 2013 @ 11:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Poppy is an analog device that connects to the iPhone and turns the smartphone’s camera into a 3D-capable video recording and image capture device. The Poppy is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, and the campaign has already reached a $40,000 goal. Poppy is the first device in… Read More

June 18, 2013 @ 10:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fundly, a donation crowdfunding platform, released its mobile app for iOS that makes it easy for fundraisers to manage and run their fundraising campaign straight from their mobile device. The app is available for free in the iTunes store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 9:57 pm By PandoDaily  |  

No one’s even surprised anymore when you mention that US students are behind other countries in math and science. Is this the new normal? Sure, there are promising signs: President Obama’s 2014 budget does increase STEM education funding by 6.4% to $3.1 billion. And last month, the National… Read More

May 3, 2013 @ 8:06 am By Kotaku  |  

For the last few days, I’ve been playing Star Command, a mobile game that’s had people excited for a very long time now. Beginning life as a Kickstarter project, it’s gone through several major delays, and arrives this week on the App Store an example not just of… Read More

April 23, 2013 @ 9:59 am By Guardian.co.uk  |  

Two Lives Left says it spent $100k developing Crabitron for iPad, but has only made $3.8k back so far. Independent mobile games developer Two Lives Left is sharing sales data from its iPad game Crabitron in a spoof Kickstarter crowdfunding page. The Australian studio’s “Crabstarter” project was started as a tongue-in-cheek marketing… Read More

April 11, 2013 @ 9:18 am By Pocket Gamer  |  

Earlier today, we went hands-on with War Balloon Games’s hotly anticipated space sim Star Command. This is the oft-delayed and long-awaited mobile game that’s enjoyed two Kickstarter campaigns and attracted almost $200,000 in crowdfunded cash. It’s kind of a big deal around here, okay. As I explained… Read More

February 18, 2013 @ 2:23 pm By Fast Company  |  

KICKSTARTER’S NEW APP LOOKS A LOT LIKE INSTAGRAM OR VINE. COINCIDENCE? MORE LIKE “INEVITABILITY.” Compared to a made-for-mobile app like Instagram, Kickstarter is a pretty complicated platform. You don’t just have an image you can like or comment on–you have a whole concept to explain,… Read More