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| Oct 24, 2015 | We’re sitting on a big data time bomb | 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!
$114 billion. That’s how much global organization... |
| Oct 24, 2015 | We’re sitting on a big data time bomb | $114 billion. That’s how much global organizations will spend on big data in 2018, an increase of more than 300 percent in just five years. But how much of that is money well spent?
Over the past 10 or so years, we’ve seen widespread adopti... |
| Jul 14, 2014 | Samasource’s Leila Janah: Bringing The Third World Into The Tech Economy | ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.
Companies like Google and Facebook are putting lots of time into figuring out how to solve the world’s problems through ... |
| Dec 26, 2013 | Meet the entrepreneur who has lifted 15,000 young people over the poverty line | This story originally appeared in the Telegraph.
In rural Northern Uganda, a group of workers assemble each day in a shipping container, which is equipped with solar panels on the roof and high-speed Internet access. These workers are train... |
| Nov 5, 2013 | How Sama Group’s donations model connects and aids the world’s poor | Dr. Darius Maggi, a retired obstetrician, is a regular visitor to Sierra Leone, a country where 1 in 14 women die of complications from pregnancy. He’s using his retirement money to fund operations for over 100 women each year, who suffer f... |
| Feb 14, 2012 | Social entrepreneurs use startups to change the world | Above: Leila Janah, cofounder of Samasource. (Photo:Ved Chirayath)
Muhammed Yunus, a 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank, sparked a movement with the simple question: “If you are a socially conscious person, why don’t ... |
| Feb 14, 2012 | Social entrepreneurs use startups to change the world | 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!
Above: Leila Janah, cofounder of Samasource. (Pho... |
| Dec 14, 2011 | A Look At The Organizations That Grabbed $115 Million In Grants From Google In 2011 | As you may have heard, Google is getting into the holiday giving spirit these days, as it late last night announced that it has dished out an additional $40 million in philanthropic grants, targeted at science, technology, engineering, and ... |
| Sep 30, 2011 | Can Crowdsourcing Make a Dent in Unemployment? Ask MobileWorks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Jobs are the single biggest political issue of the day in the U.S., and rightly so. As of August, the official unemployment rate in the United States stood at 9.1 percent. Tha... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | Can We Use Public Data to Save the Economy? | Yesterday we reported that Data.gov and several other Web-based public data outlets may be closed as a result of proposed budget cuts. The Sunlight Foundation is trying to save these sites you can learn more about that here.
But as Clive Th... |
| Feb 21, 2011 | Guest Post: How Online Work Can Save America | On a dusty summer day in July 2009, I taught a young, impoverished refugee in Dadaab, Kenya, to earn money online.
Paul Parach (pictured left, video below) had fled South Sudan at age seven and lived in the camp for fifteen years, suffering... |
| Dec 7, 2010 | Oh Come On, Hewlett Packard. Is That All You Got? (UCSF) | Some of you (hopefully all of you) have been following the UCSF drive to build a children’t hospital in San Francisco. We are enthusiastically supporting the project, as are countless other businesses, blogs and individuals. Marc and Lynne ... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | Women in tech debate takes center stage | The Women in Tech panel at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco just wrapped up. There was plenty of argument among the women on the panel — not least from TechCrunch’s Sarah Lacy (pictured), who moderated the discussion but a... |
| Aug 21, 2010 | Crowdsourcing Disaster Relief | This article was written by Lukas Biewald, CEO of CrowdFlower and Leila Janah, CEO of Samasource.
On Thursday July 8, 2010, residents of Oakland took to the streets after a jury convicted police officer Johannes Mehserle of involuntary mans... |
| Jul 18, 2010 | The Many Bottom Lines Of Businesses | This post was written by guest contributor Leila Janah, the CEO of the nonprofit outsourced services firm Samasource. Leila continues to argue with me over whether or not pure capitalism can solve what ails us. I tend to take a Randian view... |
| May 13, 2010 | The lazy CEO’s 10-step guide to crowdsourcing every business task | Lukas Biewald (pictured left) is cofounder and chief executive of CrowdFlower, a startup that helps businesses crowdsource small tasks. Vaughn Hester (pictured below) is an account manager/analyst at CrowdFlower.
Whether you are starting a ... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | How CrowdFlower powered Haiti relief | Crowdsourced translation of text messages helps shape future disaster response efforts.
Katie Stanton, a former Google and Yahoo employee, had been in her new job at the U.S. State Department for less than a week when, on January 12th, 2010... |
| Mar 30, 2010 | Crowdflower helps you earn extra bucks | Interview with Crowdflower CEO and co-founder Lukas Biewald on providing jobs
Even though the economy is looking up, jobs are still tough to find. And, for companies, particularly startups, hiring full-time workers, particularly for simple ... |
| Mar 4, 2010 | Feeding Amazon’s Cloud of Workers with Virtual Peas | Crowdsourcing may be stretching the geo-political landscape much the same way that cloud computing is redefining the data center. In short, nothing is safe and yet everything has the promise of being better.
Companies, industries, and econo... |
| Jan 28, 2010 | How a tweet brought makeshift 911 services to life in Haiti | 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!
Haiti’s earthquake devastated not only lives. It ... |
| Jan 28, 2010 | How a tweet brought makeshift 911 services to life in Haiti | Haiti’s earthquake devastated not only lives. It destroyed whatever emergency services the barely functioning government had to offer. But in less than five days, a makeshift version of 911 sprung to life.
It’s a striking story of how a few... |
| Jan 4, 2010 | How technology can help you do good in the New Year | It’s the end of the decade. And like some people, you might be thinking about New Year’s (or Decade’s) resolutions. But instead of hitting the gym more, you could consider volunteering your time for a cause or organization. If you’re not su... |
| Jan 4, 2010 | How technology can help you do good in the New Year | 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!
It’s the end of the decade. And like some people,... |
| Oct 13, 2009 | New iPhone app lets users Give Work to refugees in Africa | The iPhone is a pretty good way to kill short bursts of idle time — for example, I picked up an addiction to Apple’s Poker game after I started playing a couple times a day while I waited for buses. Now there’s an app called Give Work that ... |
| Oct 13, 2009 | New iPhone app lets users Give Work to refugees in Africa | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The iPhone is a pretty good way to kill short bursts of idle time — for example, I picked up an addiction to Apple’s Poker game after I... |
| Sep 1, 2009 | Facebook Fund REV Graduation Day: Backlight, Thread and More | After a summer of hard work, Facebook’s 24 fbFund REV incubator companies presented their products to a room full of investors, entrepreneurs and journalists. Created by Accel Partners and Founders Fund, the fbFund REV program is meant to f... |
| Jul 9, 2009 | Women in Tech-focused SF Mobile Meetup | An evening focused on engendering change in Silicon Valley draws crowd and shares studies
You can’t deny that when attending tech events – most of the time, you’ll find a good portion of the audience to be male.
Last night was a different s... |
| May 28, 2009 | FbFund: 18 companies and 2 nonprofits win, head to Palo Alto | FbFund is kicking off its new incubator-style program this summer by announcing 18 company and two nonprofit winners today. Each organization will receive a small amount of seed funding in exchange for mentorship and connections provided by... |
| May 28, 2009 | Facebook Names First Class Of fbFund REV, Its New Incubator | Facebook has just announced the 20 final winners of the latest round of fbFund, the joint entity created by Accel Partners and Founders Fund in conjunction with the social network to help foster quality applications on Facebook Platform and... |
| May 18, 2009 | Facebook's fbFund '09 Names First Batch Of Winners | Facebook has just named 25 of the finalists for the latest round of fbFund, the social network’s joint program with Accel and Founders Fund meant to help foster quality applications on Facebook Platform. Today’s announcement represents only... |
| May 18, 2009 | This year’s fbFund finalists span Facebook’s platform, the web and the iPhone | Developers may make up to $500 million on Facebook’s developer platform this year, and now Facebook’s investors are getting into that action — and then some. The fbFund, a seed-stage investment fund run by Founders Fund and Accel Partners i... |
| Dec 24, 2008 | Facebook Developers Garage: Uganda | Facebook senior engineer Charlie Cheever flew to Kampala, Uganda, a couple of weekends ago to lead a Facebook Developers Garage and teach 100+ East African students how to take advantage of the growing Facebook economy using the company’s a... |