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| 16.06.2026 | Current Secures $80 Million, Reaches $1.5 Billion Valuation | Current secured $80 million in Series E funding. Its valuation now stands at $1.5 billion. Springcoast Partners led the round. This consumer fintech leader shows remarkable growth. Revenue surged over 70% for three consecutive years. Profit... |
| 15.06.2026 | Current Raises $80 Million at a $1.5 Billion Valuation | Current is a leading consumer fintech platform dedicated to improving their financial lives. By providing accessible and innovative financial solutions, Current allows users to manage their money, build credit, and access liquidity more eff... |
| 12.06.2026 | Current Raises $80 Million Series E At $1.5 Billion Valuation As Growth Exceeds 70% For Third Consecutive Year | Current announced it has raised $80 million in Series E funding at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Springcoast Partners. The financing builds on support from existing investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management, Aveni... |
| 12.06.2026 | Consumer fintech Current raises $80 million | Current Current
Founded: 2015
Headquarters: New York, New York, United States
Total Funding: $682.4M
See full company profile "> has raised $80 million in a Series E funding round that values the consumer fintech at $1.5 billion, br... |
| 11.06.2026 | Turnout Raises $35M in Series A Funding | Turnout, a San Diego, CA-based provider of AI-powered consumer advocacy services, raised $35M in Series A funding, at a $400M valuation.
The round was led by HighPost Capital, with participation from Shine Capital, LGVP, Mangusta Capital, H... |
| 11.06.2026 | Current Raises $80M in Series E Funding | Current, a NYC-based provider of a consumer fintech platform, raised $80M in Series E equity financing, at a $1.5 Billion valuation.
The round was led by Springcoast Partners and builds on previous support from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Gl... |
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| 16.12.2024 | Current Raises Additional $200M | Current, a NYC-based provider of a consumer fintech banking platform, raised additional $200M in funding.
Backers included Andreessen Horowitz, Wellington Management, and Avenir, with participation from General Catalyst and Cross River.
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| 13.12.2024 | Current: Consumer Fintech Banking Platform Raises $200 Million In New Capital | Current, a leading consumer fintech banking platform transforming financial access for Americans, announced notable growth this year, including an over 90% increase in revenue. Following this record year, the company secured $200 million in... |
| 01.11.2024 | Welspun Tubular to invest $100 million in Little Rock plant to expand and upgrade current pipe portfolio | LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Welspun Tubular LLC has announced an investment of $100 million to expand and upgrade its pipe portfolio in the United States. The site selection was announced by Welspun representatives ... |
| 01.11.2024 | Welspun Tubular to invest $100 million in Little Rock plant to expand and upgrade current pipe portfolio | LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Welspun Tubular LLC has announced an investment of $100 million to expand and upgrade its pipe portfolio in the United States. The site selection was announced by Welspun representatives ... |
| 29.10.2024 | Casap's $8.5M Funding: A New Dawn for Dispute Automation | In the bustling heart of New York City, a startup named Casap is making waves. The company recently secured $8.5 million in funding, a significant boost that signals its potential in the fintech arena. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, th... |
| 29.10.2024 | Casap: $8.5 Million Raised To Transform Payment Disputes Processes | Disputes automation and fraud prevention platform Casap announced it has raised $8.5 million to scale the first AI-powered solution for banks, credit unions, and fintechs to tackle first-party fraud and automate disputes and chargebacks int... |
| 28.10.2024 | Casap Raises $8.5M in Funding | Casap, a NYC-based disputes automation and fraud prevention platform, raised $8.5M in funding.
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Primary Venture Partners, Commerce Ventures, Curql, Alloy Labs, and fint... |
| 11.04.2024 | Current hires first CFO | Last valued at $2.2 billion, neobank Current named Scot Parnell its first CFO on Wednesday.
Why it matters: The news comes as the company strives to hit profitability by mid-2025.
Catch up quick: Parnell was previously Munich Re Life's CFO ... |
| 23.06.2022 | NutraNomics Announces 2022 Topline Sales Expectations of $10.2M Based on Data from Current Operations and Upcoming Expansion in Active Product Lines | DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 23, 2022 / NutraNomics, Inc. (OTC PINK:NNRX) ("NutraNomics" or the "Company"), an emerging leader in organic plant-based nutritional science and innovation, is pleased to provid... |
| 13.06.2022 | Cyberlux Corporation (OTC PINK:CYBL) Announces Share Repurchasing Program and Directs $19.5 Million of Current and Future Cash Flows to Fund the Purchase of Outstanding Shares | The Company's Board of Directors Approves a Share Repurchase Program to begin immediately with up to $19.5 Million of Earnings dedicated to Reducing the Level of Outstanding Common Stock Shares
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC / ACCESSWIRE / June... |
| 05.04.2022 | Current’s ‘hybrid’ DeFi approach could help win over younger customers | The news: US neobank Current plans to incorporate elements of decentralized finance (DeFi) into its consumer-focused lineup by rolling them out on a “hybrid finance” basis, per an American Banker feature.
A tech overview: DeFi enables consu... |
| 01.04.2022 | Garrett Camp on his startup studio, its new $200M fund and what he makes of ‘Super Pumped’ | When I first met Garrett Camp in March 2007 on a reporting assignment, it was at the San Francisco-based offices of StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool that had registered more than 2 million users and drawn attention to Camp, the startup’s t... |
| 14.03.2022 | US watchdog seeks more outcome-oriented data on unbanked and underbanked | The news: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) called on three federal regulators to gather more data pertaining to efforts to help unbanked and underbanked households.
It says that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (... |
| 13.01.2022 | Current launches Interest of 4.00% APY to make growing money more accessible | NEW YORK, Jan. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Current, a leading U.S. financial technology platform serving Americans working to create a better future for themselves, announced today the launch of Current Interest, a high-yield offering that wil... |
| 13.01.2022 | US fintech Current introduces high-yield savings where customers earn a 4.00% APY | As competition amid digital banks heats up, U.S. fintech Current is rolling out a new product designed to make its banking service more appealing. The company announced this morning it’s launching a new high-yield offering called “Interest”... |
| 03.11.2021 | Considering a ‘neobank’ or fintech? The lowdown on the fees, perks, and long-term prospects of challenger banks | Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning.
When it comes to your money, do you prefer your "Banking, evolved"? Or are you more in the camp of "Banking for humans"? W... |
| 13.07.2021 | Фокус на трёх вариантах развитии финтеха | Несомненно обычная цифровизация повседневных ключевых банковских сервисов (карты, переводы, оплата покупок) уже не является конкурентным преимуществом. Она стала гигиенической нормой и стандартом индустрии. Имея только такую функциональност... |
| 01.07.2021 | Huntington adds to its customer safety net with early paycheck access | The news: Huntington will let customers access direct deposits, including paychecks, up to two days in advance through a new free feature, Early Pay. The new feature is available to customers who have consistently made certain types of dire... |
| 30.06.2021 | TD Bank plans no-overdraft account, co-opting a major neobank feature | The news: TD Bank plans to roll out an overdraft fee-free checking account, TD Essential Banking, in August, Banking Dive reports. The account, which will carry a monthly fee of $4.95 (except for account holders aged 13 to 17), will have no... |
| 11.06.2021 | Wage advance-focused US neobank Clair raises $15M | NYC-based Clair completed a $15 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $19.5 million after scoring $4.5 million in a seed round a few months ago, TechCrunch reports.
Here’s what it does:
The neobank’s flagship offerin... |
| 02.06.2021 | US Fintech Current Partners with Polkadot based DeFi Platform Acala to Launch Hybrid Finance Solutions | Current, a leading US-based Fintech firm serving Americans who are working to “create a better future for themselves,” recently revealed that it had teamed up with Acala, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform developed on the Polkadot blo... |
| 16.05.2021 | Current: $220 Million Series D Funding And $2.2 Billion Valuation | Current — a leading U.S. financial technology company serving Americans who are working to create a better future for themselves — announced recently that it has raised $220 million in Series D funding and tripled its valuation to $2.2 bill... |
| 03.05.2021 | Google’s threat to neobanks gains severity with Google Pay update | The tech titan has rolled out a batch of new features, including options for finding deals at Safeway and Target, paying for public transit, and monitoring spending to anchor Google Pay more deeply into users’ lives, per TechCrunch. Among t... |
| 27.04.2021 | Mobile bank Current raises $220 million Series D, triples valuation to $2.2B | U.S.-based challenger bank Current, which has now grown to nearly 3 million users, announced this morning it has raised a $220 million round of Series D funding, led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The funding swiftly follows Cu... |
| 27.04.2021 | Current Raises $220M in Series D; Valued at $2.2 Billion | Current, a NYC-based U.S. mobile banking company, raised $220m in Series D funding in a round valuing it to $2.2 billion.
New investor Andreessen Horowitz led the round bringing total funding raised to date to over $400m, with participation... |
| 27.04.2021 | Current Triples Valuation To $2.2 Billion; Raises $220 Million In Series D Funding | New investor Andreessen Horowitz leads round after record year of growth for financial technology company
Current, a leading U.S. financial technology company serving Americans who are working to create a better future for themselves, annou... |
| 27.04.2021 | Current raises $220 million | Five months after raising $131 million, US challenger bank Current Current
Founded: 2015
Headquarters: New York, NY, US
Total Funding: $402.4M
See full company profile "> is announcing another round of funding. The startup just rais... |
| 27.04.2021 | Current triples valuation to $2.2 billion; Raises $220 million in Series D funding | |
| 26.04.2021 | Current and MrBeast Announce Exclusive, Long-term Partnership And Investment | Financial technology company to provide a new platform for YouTube megastar’s signature generosity and viral content
Current, a leading U.S. financial technology company, and Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, one of YouTube’s most-viewed creato... |
| 26.04.2021 | Current and MrBeast announce exclusive, long-term partnership and investment | NEW YORK, April 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Current, a leading U.S. financial technology company, and Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, one of YouTube's most-viewed creators and philanthropists, today announced an exclusive, long-term partnership ... |
| 09.04.2021 | Vybe raises $2.9 million for its challenger bank for teens | French startup Vybe has raised a $2.9 million funding round (€2.4 million) to build a challenger bank for teens. The company is currently testing its product with a soft launch. Users get a Mastercard payment card paired with an e-wallet.
E... |
| 16.02.2021 | Why Investors Should Heed The African Tech Startups Devouring Consumer Finance | By Damien Pieretti |
| 25.01.2021 | Digital Banking: US based Current Says it Helped Consumers Save Over $100 Million in Overdraft Fees | Current, one of the leading digital banks in the US, has noted that 2020 was “certainly not the year anyone was expecting,” however, for all the tribulations (not to mention “being in the epicenter of a pandemic” – above all), the company i... |
| 30.11.2020 | Current: $131 Million Funding And $750 Million Valuation | Current — a leading U.S. challenger bank serving Americans overlooked by traditional banks — announced recently that it raised $131 million in Series C funding
Current — a leading U.S. challenger bank serving Americans overlooked by traditi... |
| 25.11.2020 | Current Announces $131 Million in Series C funding | NEW YORK, Nov. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Current, a leading U.S. challenger bank serving Americans overlooked by traditional banks, today announced it has raised $131 million in Series C funding. New investor Tiger Global Management led the r... |
| 24.11.2020 | Current Announces $131 Million in Series C funding; Surpasses 2 Million Members | |
| 24.11.2020 | Mobile banking app Current raises $131M Series C, tops 2 million members | U.S. challenger bank Current, which has doubled its member base in less than six months, announced this morning it raised $131 million in Series C funding, led by Tiger Global Management. The additional financing brings Current to over $180... |
| 24.11.2020 | FinTech bank startup Current raises $131M in funding to serve Americans overlooked by traditional banks | According to a 2019 survey conducted by FDIC, 5.4 percent of U.S. households (approximately 7.1 million households) were unbanked. Another data tells a different story. In a piece published in Forbes, 88 million Americans are either unbanke... |
| 04.08.2020 | Mobile bank Current launches a points rewards program for debit card users | Amid a crowded market of mobile banking services, which will soon also include Google, U.S. challenger bank Current is launching a new program that will offer points-based rewards to its checking account customers. The program will allow Cu... |
| 18.06.2020 | Fintech’s savings and investing boom isn’t just a domestic affair | The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted consumer and corporate behavior across the board. Some changes were obvious and quick, like cuts to business travel leading to layoffs at companies that served that space. Other changes have been more surpris... |
| 04.05.2020 | Mobile Marketing Experts Show How Fintech Apps Will Emerge Fighting Fit From The Covid-19 Crisis | Financial services players that have invested in customer-centric innovation during this period of ... [+] uncertainty will be best positioned to come out fighting. Getty |
| 14.04.2020 | How To Get Your Stimulus Check Fast | Businessman hand sending money to another business person. Transaction, payment, salary and banking ... [+] concept.Getty |
| 24.10.2019 | Mobile banking app Current raises $20M Series B, tops half a million users | Mobile banking app Current, which began as a teen debit card controlled by parents, expanded to offer personal checking accounts earlier this year. Now the company says it has grown to host more than 500,000 accounts on its service and has ... |
| 24.10.2019 | Current Secures $20M in Series B Funding | Current, a NYC-based mobile bank, raised $20m in Series B funding.
The round, which brought total funding to $45m, was led by Wellington Management Company, with participation from Galaxy Digital EOS VC Fund, CMFG Ventures, the venture capi... |
| 20.06.2019 | ‘It’s Just Lazy’: Current’s CEO Lashes Out at Facebook’s Calibra for Its Similar Logo | Facebook announced ambitious plans this week for a new digital currency called Libra along with a subsidiary, Calibra, that will offer digital wallets for storing Libras. Now Facebook is facing criticism for a related detail: Calibra’s new ... |
| 01.03.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, March 1 | REBEL IPO
Good morning, Term Sheet readers.
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But of course, the faster and cheaper route comes with risks. As it notes in its prospectus, there are no safeguards to protec... |
| 01.03.2018 | Current Receives $5M Strategic Investment from Fifth Third Bancorp | Current, a US provider of a debit card for teens, raised $5m strategic investment from Fifth Third Capital.
This brings the total capital raised by the company in Series A funding to $10m.
Fifth Third Capital is a direct equity investment s... |
| 27.02.2018 | Teen debit card Current raises $1 million more from Fifth Third Capital | Current, the startup behind an app-controlled debit card aimed at tweens and teens, is adding new strategic investor Fifth Third Capital, a direct equity investment subsidiary of Fifth Third Bancorp, to its recent Series A round of funding.... |
| 25.10.2017 | Current Raises $5M in Series A | Financial technology company Current today announced today it has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round led by QED Investors, with additional investment from Cota Capital. In conjunction with the investment, QED's Founding Partner F... |
| 25.10.2017 | Current Secures $5M in Series A Funding | Current, a NYC-based financial technology startup, raised $5m in Series A funding.
The round was led by QED Investors, with participation from Cota Capital. In conjunction with the funding, QED’s Founding Partner Frank Rotman will join Curr... |
| 14.09.2017 | Where teens spent their gaming money this summer | Over the summer, the video game industry may lose out a bit to theme parks and museums, movies, and device-free summer camps, but video games still captured 6 percent amount of dollars spent by 13-to-16-year-olds, the teen demographic discu... |
| 14.09.2017 | Where teens spent their gaming money this summer | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Over the summer, the video game industry may lose out a bit to theme parks and museums, movies, and device-free summer camps, but video... |
| 11.05.2017 | Startup Enters Teen Market Touting Budgeting Tools, Parental Controls, Charitable Giving | Current, a startup comprised of a small team of New York-based fintech entrepreneurs, has launched a prepaid card program and mobile app for kids and parents that goes beyond dispensing allowances.
The Current Student Account comes with a p... |
| 09.05.2017 | Current launches a Visa debit card for kids that parents control with an app | A startup called Current is today launching a new way for parents to dole out allowances to their kids: with an app. The company offers a Visa debit card that would allow teenagers to shop in stores or online using funds from their own bank... |
| 07.03.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, March 7 | PRIVATE EQUITY’S TRUMP PROBLEM
Good morning. In today’s guest column, Fortune editor Stephen Gandel examines the pitfalls of a Trump presidency for private equity execs. Follow him on Twitter here.
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| 07.03.2017 | Current wants to digitize your kid’s allowance with an app and a debit card | Who carries around cash anymore? The answer? Parents, who still need to hand out allowance and pocket money to their kids.
That’s where Current comes in.
Current is the latest company out of Expa, and was built by Stuart Sopp. Sopp told Tec... |
| 20.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, January 20 | ET CETERA
IPOs: The data does not lie: IPOs are dwindling and so is the number of public companies. The number of US-listed companies has dropped 37% since 1997, Fortune reports.
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| 16.03.2016 | Human Ventures turns ‘normals’ into founders | A number of startup studios are in the midst of a years-long experiment, providing back-end assistance, office space and mentoring to talented, ambitious people in order to create a startup with them, often based around their expertise.
Bet... |
| 30.07.2013 | Life after cable: The Young Turks Network launches a Roku app | Political news show The Young Turks is planning to expand availability of its network of programming to Roku today.
The move happens just weeks before The Young Turks Network’s (TYT Network) main show stops airing on cable channel Current T... |
| 30.07.2013 | Life after cable: The Young Turks Network launches a Roku app | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Political news show The Young Turks is planning t... |
| 29.11.2012 | SocialGood.tv in talks to buy Al Gore’s Current cable network (and move it to Austin, TX) | Austin, Tex.-based startup SocialGood.TV recently announced its intentions to purchase Current TV, the struggling cable channel led by former Vice President Al Gore and founder Joel Hyatt.
Current launched in 2005 as an Internet user-curate... |
| 29.11.2012 | SocialGood.tv in talks to buy Al Gore’s Current cable network (and move it to Austin, TX) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Austin, Tex.-based startup SocialGood.TV recently... |
| 24.08.2012 | Find Out How Many Fake Twitter Followers You Have With StatusPeople | Are you a social media superstar, or is your Twitter feed just a soapbox for a soulless animatronic audience? StatusPeople is a humbling web application that reveals the percentage of followers that are fake or inactive. Obama has a whoppin... |
| 14.07.2012 | Partners Forever (or close to it) | Mitt Romney is taking some flack for continuing to have ongoing involvement in Bain Capital well after he supposedly left the firm for good in 1999. I am not supporting Romney for President as I can't get comfortable with his party's views ... |
| 31.05.2012 | Sergey Brin Shows Off His Google Glass Prototype | I would totally embed this video but WordPress won’t let us, so here it is. It’s essentially a quick run-through of Google Glass thanks to Sergey Brin. He even gave them to California Lieutenant Governer Gavin Newsom who got to try them on.... |
| 30.11.2011 | Keith Olbermann, No Longer Afraid Of Corporate Parent Interference, Willing To Talk On Air About PIPA/SOPA | We’ve noted widespread, mainstream media coverage of the massive problems with both SOPA and PIPA (PROTECT IP). With papers like the NY Times and the LA Times coming out against SOPA, this isn’t just a fringe issue any more. But you know wh... |
| 30.09.2011 | Warner Says You Ought to Be in Pictures -- Literally | Cutting edge online isn't what you might normally associate with Hollywood studios. Put that perception to the side, because Warner Bros. has a new show that will shatter business as usual. Running online, it will integrate photos, data, an... |
| 08.04.2011 | Mass Infringement Lawyer: Never Mind The Facts, Just Pay Up | John Steele, the former divorce lawyer who jumped into the mass copyright infringement game feet first, and who seems to keep running into problems with judges who actually understand the law, seems to be at it again. Chris sends in a repor... |
| 01.11.2010 | Video games v. California heads to hearings | Governor Schwarzenegger-backed law regulating violent video games to face the Supreme Court
The sale of games to minors has always been a hot button issue. It was the whole reason that the ESRB, with its bevy of large rating labels, was cre... |
| 10.02.2010 | Twitter Hires Pixar Financial Chief, Preps for More Profitability | Two months after announcing that the startup managed to turn a profit in 2009, Twitter has announced that it will be hiring Pixar finance head Ali Rowghani as its chief financial officer.
Twitter’s CEO Evan Williams told Reuters today that ... |
| 30.01.2010 | Former Current TV strategist Sloan jumps to Twitter | Robin Sloan, a former strategist and executive at online TV site Current TV, is joining Twitter to handle media partnerships. He says he’ll help “producers, reporters, developers and strategists at media organizations that want to do cool,... |
| 04.12.2009 | New bill challenges mobile early-termination fees | Love rarely lasts forever. This is particularly true with cell phones. When a network gets overwhelmed and service slows down or a new phone comes out on another carrier, many customers will see the opportunity for a better life with that c... |
| 04.12.2009 | New bill challenges mobile early-termination fees | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Love rarely lasts forever. This is particularly true with cell phones. When a network gets overwhelmed and service slows down or a new ... |
| 11.11.2009 | Updated: Current TV not immune to traditional media’s woes with 80 layoffs | Current Media is at the axe for the second time, laying off 80 employees as it plans to outsource more of its programming. Despite its new-media upbringing, the company co-founded by Al Gore isn’t immune to the struggles of its predecessors... |
| 11.11.2009 | Current TV Staff Suffer A "Major Bloodbath" As 80 Employees Lose Their Jobs | Today is another sobering day for the tech and media world. Current TV has confirmed that 80 people are being let go, leaving the company with 300 employees worldwide. We heard multiple reports of significant layoffs at Current TV earlier i... |
| 11.11.2009 | Updated: Current TV not immune to traditional media’s woes with 80 layoffs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Current Media is at the axe for the second time, ... |
| 23.06.2009 | Boxee Swings For The Fences: Windows Support, MLB, Digg, Tumblr And Current All Launch Tonight | Boxee is holding an event in San Francisco tonight to declare a winner of its App Dev Challenge, in which third-parties created apps for the media platform. But the real winner tonight will be Boxee, which is also announcing a boatload of n... |
| 22.06.2009 | HP launches web-connected, touch-screen printers that don’t need computers | Hewlett-Packard announced this morning that it has created a touch-screen printer that can print images off the web directly, without the need to connect to a computer.
It raises the question: what’s the peripheral, the computer or the prin... |
| 08.06.2009 | Current TV Journalists Sentenced To 12 Years In North Korean Labor Camp | A sad update to our earlier report of the two U.S. journalists from online media network Current TV who were being detained by the North Korean government after crossing the border between China and North Korea while they were reporting on ... |
| 27.05.2009 | Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round For Its Flash Gaming Widget | Heyzap, the Y Combinator startup that’s looking to become a “YouTube For Flash Games“, has closed a seed funding round led by Union Square Ventures, with independent investors Naval Ravikant (Hitforge) and Joshua Schachter (delicious) also ... |
| 15.05.2009 | Sony Pictures CEO: Nothing Good Has Come From The Internet | We were just talking about how Sony CEO Howard Stringer was lamenting the fact that Sony didn’t embrace openness and new technologies like the internet earlier. Perhaps part of the problem is the execs who work under him. Mathew Ingram poin... |
| 08.05.2009 | Video: The Death Star vs the USS Enterprise | http://current.com/e/90029658/en_US
It looks like we have an answer in the endless Star Wars vs Star Trek debate. If the USS Enterprise showed up in Imperial controlled San Francisco, the Death Star could easily blast the starship out of th... |
| 13.04.2009 | Currently In Trouble: After Pulling Its IPO, Current TV Loses CTO | Current Media, the peer-to-peer news and information company famously co-founded by former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore, appears to be facing stormy weather lately.
After two of its reporters were detained by North Korea in a relatively high... |
| 10.04.2009 | Current TV Cancels $100 Million IPO | Current Media, the media company backed by former Vice President Al Gore, has cancelled the $100 million IPO that it originally announced in January 2008.
In a document submitted earlier today, Current TV attributed the IPO’s cancellation t... |
| 19.01.2009 | Ben Hoffman is mean to people at CES | http://current.com/e/89720498/en-US
We were actually really nice to people at CES, mostly because we were mostly drunk, but Ben Hoffman did the hard work of calling CE people out on their bull.
via BBG |
| 18.01.2009 | The TechCrunch Guide To The Inauguration | Whether you are headed to Washington for the Obama Inauguration or simply want to follow along online, there is no shortage of sites and applications dedicated to the national party on Tuesday, January 20. Of course, every major news site (... |
| 10.11.2008 | Video: E-Waste in China, a toxic industry | http://current.com/e/76355482/en_US
Current has, in its Naked China series of videos, this interesting but scary breakdown of just what happens to all those old PCs, printers, and DVD players that are obsoleted every year and binned.
In a p... |
| 07.11.2008 | Web 2.0 Summit: Al Gore on how the web can solve the climate crisis | Al Gore just finished his talk on the topic of “What Now?” at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco — and yes, the content was as wide-ranging as the title implies.
Despite being an adviser and board member at tech giants Google and Apple, as... |
| 06.11.2008 | Has Current Solved the User Generated Advertising Mystery? | At the Web 2.0 Summit today Current.tv co-founder Joel Hyatt told the audience that his video site and TV channel has landed multiple multi-million dollar advertising deals with giant companies, based on non-professional commercials created... |
| 30.10.2008 | Tweet the Vote. No, Digg The Vote. No, YouTube the Vote. Oh, . . . Just Vote. | If you think there is too much noise about the U.S. election now, wait until next week. On Election Day, not only will every media outlet be covering the vote, but so will voters themselves who will have ample opportunity to Tweet, Digg, vi... |
| 02.10.2008 | Polling Web 2.0's Presidential Debate Hubs | In the buildup to this election season’s presidential debates, we’ve seen a number of services launch that aim to enhance the viewers’ experience (and hopefully keep them informed). During tonight’s highly anticipated Vice Presidential deba... |
| 26.09.2008 | New Media Crashes the Presidential Debate | In 1960 seventy million people watched Kennedy and Nixon engage in the first Presidential debate ever broadcast live on TV.
And not a single viewer could post a comment.
These days things are different. Tonight, far fewer people probably wa... |
