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Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market … – MarketWatch (press release)
Feb 3rd
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Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market …
MarketWatch (press release) Members of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square to officially ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell. SEO provides educational and career programs to young people from underserved communities … |
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Get Free SEO Software: Link-Assistant.Com Sponsors Competition in iHubbub’s … – PR Web (press release)
Jan 22nd
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Get Free SEO Software: Link-Assistant.Com Sponsors Competition in iHubbub's …
PR Web (press release) The SEO competition is currently underway and ends January, 30th. The first prize is one SEO PowerSuite Enterprise license worth €599, the second is SEO PowerSuite Professional (€249 value). We are pleased to be able to offer this great SEO prize to … |
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Get Free SEO Software: Link-Assistant.Com Sponsors Competition in iHubbub’s … – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Jan 22nd
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Get Free SEO Software: Link-Assistant.Com Sponsors Competition in iHubbub's …
DigitalJournal.com (press release) SEO can be mastered, but at large it is SEO software that can give answers to the questions of why websites lag behind in organic search, and what exactly should be done to improve online presence. That is the reason why Paula has encouraged iHubbub … |
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Tech Company PACs Donate To SOPA/PIPA Sponsors
Jan 12th
Pop quiz: The Political Action Committee of which of the following companies has given the most in donations to lawmakers who have co-sponsored the Stop Online Piracy Act and its Senate-counterpart, the Protect IP Act: Microsoft, eBay, Google, GoDaddy, Yahoo! or Amazon?
Think carefully: all six have come out in opposition to the bill, which would put tight restrictions on Internet firms in an effort to enforce U.S. copyright laws (although some firms took more convincing stands than others). At least two of the companies, Google and Amazon, have said they may go dark to protest the bill.
If you guessed GoDaddy — which had a public dust up after initially supporting SOPA — you’re right. Sort of. GoDaddy’s PAC leads in percentage, giving 52.9% of the $38,750 it has given in the current election cycle to Representatives that have signed on to co-sponsor SOPA and Senators who are co-sponsoring PIPA.
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In terms of shear numbers, however, Microsoft leads, having given $88,500 to SOPA- and PIPA-sponsoring lawmakers. The PACs of all six companies have given some money to lawmakers who support the proposed legislation, and are broken down below with the amount donated to those legislators and the percentage of total giving that went to SOPA and PIPA supporters in the current campaign finance cycle:
- Microsoft $88,500 (20.9%)
- eBay $32,750 (35.5%)
- Google $29,000 (47.5%)
- GoDaddy $20,500 (52.9%)
- Yahoo! $11,000 (35.5%)
- Amazon $4,000 (42.1%)
We contacted all six companies asking for comment and asked them to get back to us by 3 pm ET/noon PT on Thursday. All of the companies missed that deadline, but we’ll update if any of them get back to us.
ReadWriteWeb analyzed Federal Election Commission data maintained by OpenSecret.org. While the reports are for the current election cycle, they do not list the dates of individual donations, making it hard to determine if the donations were made before or after a lawmaker signed on to co-sponsor the bills.
SOPA, and its Senate counerpart, PIPA, would force search engines and websites to block links to sites that are listed as being “dedicated” to copyright infringement. SOPA has been widely endorsed by traditional media companies, but Web firms and free speech advocates have likened it to government-enforced censorship.
Outspoken Supporters Received PAC Money
All of the donations were made in the 2012 election cycle, and individual donations ranged from $1,000 to a high of $10,000 given to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. by Microsoft. Only two SOPA/PIPA sponsoring lawmakers received donations from all six company PACs: Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.
Hatch, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee that unanimously approved PIPA in May, has been a long-time backer of the bill and its earlier versions.
“Fake pharmaceuticals threaten people’s lives. Stolen movies, music and other products put many out of work,” Hatch said in a statement posted on his Web site in May. “This is why protecting property rights is a critical imperative and is why we’ve come together in introducing this common-sense bill.”
Goodlatte, meanwhile, made comments supporting SOPA as early as April, but didn’t sign on as a co-sponsor until October.
“It is tempting to think of crimes involving counterfeiting and piracy, or intellectual property (IP) theft, as victimless, but this is simply untrue,” he said a day after signing on as co-sponsor. “Piracy denies individuals who have invested in the creation and production of these goods a return on their investment thus reducing the incentive to invest in innovative products and new creative works. The end result is the loss of American jobs.”
Among the SOPA/PIPA supporting lawmakers who were the biggest beneficiaries of donations from the PACs of six companies analyzed:
- Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah $15,500
- Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. $14,000
- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. $12,000
- Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas $11,000
- Rep. Howard L. Berman, D-Calif. $10,000
- Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif. $7,000
- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. $7,000
- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. $7,000
- Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. $7,000
- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. $6,500
A complete breakdown of donations by each company’s PAC to lawmakers is available.
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Google Sponsors MIT Mobile Education Research
Aug 17th
Google and MIT have worked together on multiple projects in the past, and each collaborative project has given a good idea of Google’s mid- to long-term priorities. Their most recent investment is in the “MIT Center for Mobile Learning,” which is researching ways to ”transform learning and education through innovation in mobile computing.” Google Android will be the starting point for much of this innovation.
Google App Inventor Gets a Boost
Google’s shared interests with MIT aren’t hard to see here. For one, Google is heavily invested into mobile, owning the world’s most popular smartphone OS and continuing to work at a strong tablet presentation. In the same way that personal computers boomed in popularity once they were integrated into our education system, smartphones could get a lot more attention if students were downloading their homework via an Android app. And for MIT, it seems that advanced made will indeed be targeting Android.
For one, Android is open source, which makes it a better choice for keeping costs low and giving users expanded capabilities. Additionally, the App Inventor – a tool designed to help starting developers put together simple apps – will be the platform MIT uses as the research begins. “App Inventor will be connected to MIT’s premier research in educational technology and MIT’s long track record of creating and supporting open software,” states Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT.
It’s not just about the popularity of Android, however. Google has targeted educational institutions for Google Apps and other services. It’s the same thing Apple did during the computer wars: They’re attempting to earn loyalty during the pre-career phases of their future users’ lives.
[Sources include: The Google Research Blog]
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Thanks to RWW 2WAY Summit Sponsors
Jun 2nd
Excitement is building for the upcoming RWW 2WAY Summit in New York on June 13th and 14th. As a reminder, this is our biggest live event to date. If you haven’t yet, please check out the program and consider registering!
We wanted to take a moment and thank our sponsors as the event truly wouldn’t be possible without them!
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Qualcomm – Reception Sponsor
Qualcomm is sponsoring the attendee after-party reception after the first day of of exciting conversations on the future of the Web. The Qualcomm team also will be doing a fascinating breakout session led by Sayeed Choudry, director of product management, who will be discussing “The Great Debate: Web Apps vs. Native Apps“
Mashery
Mashery has been a sponsor of ReadWriteWeb longer then any other advertiser and we’re excited to have them supporting our upcoming event. If you aren’t familiar, its Web services platform allows companies to manage their APIs using Mashery’s expertise. You can find out more about APIs and their business use at www.mashery.com.
TokBox
A new sponsor at the event is TokBox. OpenTok by TokBox is the leading global online video communications platform, enabling the addition of live video-based interaction into any Web property. Incorporating scalable, customizable solutions for enterprises, entrepreneurs and developers through the OpenTok API as well as pre-packaged widgets, anyone with a Web presence can harness the power of real-time communications to drive user engagement within their site or service.
Tagged – Registration Sponsor
Tagged is our registration sponsor. If you’re not familiar with Tagged, it is the leading social network for meeting new people, and with over 100 million worldwide users has established the category of social discovery. Based in San Francisco, Tagged is an INC 500 Fasted Growing Company, profitable since 2008, and recently named one of the top 10 places to work in the Bay Area. If you are looking for a great place to work, they want to let you know “We’re hiring!” and invite you to learn more at http://about-tagged.com/jobs
Media Sponsors
In addition to our sponsors above, we have a great set of media sponsors below:
If you are interested in sponsoring the event, we still have a few opportunities available. Please send me an email and let me know your interest.
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Microsoft Sponsors HTML5 Game and Music Application Development Contest
Mar 2nd
Microsoft is sponsoring Dev Unplugged, a contest for developers working on games and music applications in HTML5. “We believe that HTML5 and related technologies, in conjunction with faster and faster browsers, finally give developers the tools they need to create experiences that are as vivid, interactive and compelling as anything you have seen in native applications,” writes Microsoft’s Carter Rabasa. Several prizes are being offered, worth $40,000 in sum.
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and the bands AWOLNATION and Ra Ra Riot are providing developers with starter content to use in entries.
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Here’s a partial list of prizes:
- $40,000 in total prizes including $9,000 for the Grand Prize.
- Front page exposure on theFWA.com and beautyoftheweb.com
- Cool hardware: laptops and slates from Alienware, HP and ASUS
- An all-expense paid trip to the Future of Web Apps Las Vegas with “golden ticket” VIP access
And here’s the timeline:
- 3/1 – Contest Opens (submit early, don’t miss a chance to get voted-up!)
- 4/5 – Submission gallery opens to the public and voting begins!
- 5/9 – Submission deadline
- 5/12 – Top-40 Finalists are announced
- 5/23 – Winners are announced!
The contest rules can be found here.
We previously covered the results of a Google and SPIL sponsored HTML5 game development contest here.
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Tropo Sponsors Node.js PaaS and NodeFu
Jan 19th
This week NodeFu announced another forthcoming Node.js platform-as-a-service offering powered by Amazon Web Services. But NodeFu isn’t a company – it’s an open source project sponsored by Tropo (one of our Cloud Startups to Watch in 2011). “We plan to follow Heroku‘s business model consisting of free Node.js hosting for average-size sites/applications. Additional CPU resources, worker processes, and add-ons will be available for an affordable fee,” says founder Chris Matthieu.
“Since NodeFu is 100% open source and licensed under Apache 2, developers will be able to standup their own NodeFu private clusters on-premise or on their own EC2 accounts or even RackSpace, GoGrid and others,” says Matthieu. NodeFu’s source code can be found on Github. Matthieu invites developers to contribute to the code.
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Matthieu, an employee of Tropo’s parent company Voxeo and created NodeFu during his spare time. Although NodeFu is associated with Voxeo, its not using Voxeo’s infrastructure for hosting. “Because Tropo is a highly event-driven communications platform, we hope to leverage NodeFu’s hosting services in the near future too,” Matthieu says. Tropo’s blog has some details on getting started with NodeFu to build voice and SMS applications.
The “About Us” section of NodeFu’s web site states that the project was started because other Node.js hosting services were not sending out coupon invitations. However, NodeFu was only planning to send 50 access coupons per week. Matthieu told us the site has received over 8,000 requests for access coupons. He says he was’t expecting this level of interest so he and his team are deciding how to handle the growing number of requests.
NodeFu’s CouchDB instance on CouchOne has also been hacked, slowing down the project’s ability to move forward. Matthieu says they are working with CouchOne to restore the database.
The launch didn’t come without a mini-controversy. NodeFu is using the open source proxy node-http-proxy, which was created by its rival ninja themed Node.js PaaS Nodejitsu. At Mashable, node-http-proxy co-creator and Nodejitsu co-founder Marak Squires commented:
It should be noted the majority of the open-source software NodeFu is using for their platform is actually software released by Nodejitsu ( another node.js platform as a service ), found here: http://github.com/nodejitsu
We’ve been supporting and releasing the open-source software being used behind NodeFu for several months now. We’ve also been using a ninja themed brand since day one. We were the first to have a ninja themed node.js hosting service and we were the first to use a ninja icon to represent our service.
However, Nodejitsu co-founder and node-http-proxy co-creator Charlie Robbins commented at Hacker News:
My company Nodejitsu (http://nodejitsu.com) also provides a node.js Cloud Platform-as-a-Service. The invites are coming soon I promise >.<
I’m the author of forever and node-http-proxy and it’s good to see our production quality node.js software being used by other people
Matthieu emphasizes that NodeFu is not a company and that anyone is free to use its own open source code. (And we won’t go into the fact that NodeFu is mixing a reference to Chinese martial arts with references to Japanese martial arts.)
Other Node.js hosts include Node.js sponsor company Joyent and nodeJScloud. A list of Node.js and other PaaS providers can be found here.
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Google Sponsors Twelve New Research Projects
Dec 24th
“Digital humanities” — the study of society, history, linguistics, and culture through digitized data — has become a recognized sub-section of humanities in general. Many modern-era groups have worked hard to advance this field, providing stunning research or resources. Google, already an established provider of resources in the field, is also helping to sponsor research in 2010.
As announced on the Google Research Blog, Google is providing research grants for twelve additional projects over the next year. This is the second set of projects that Google is sponsoring, and this time the focus is on European universities. The twelve projects sponsored earlier this year were exclusively to North American universities.
Each project awarded with sponsorship will receive funding for one year, with the possibility to renew the grant for one additional year. Additionally, researchers will be able to work directly with Google experts on the digital information aspect of the projects, and will receive exclusive access to Google datasets, tools, and technologies.
Much of the information for digital humanities comes from Google’s digital library, a resource that has digitized about one-tenth of all the books currently known of across the globe. Associated tools for this library allow for easier quantification of data and viewing of trends. The dataset of the library was released for free to researchers across the globe earlier in December.
While the exact amount of funds distributed for each project wasn’t specified, Google did state that they had “committed nearly a million dollars to support digital humanities research over the next two years.” It’s certainly a field the company feels strongly about. Jon Orwant, the Google Books Engineering Manager, wrote, “We’re eager to see what results [projects like these] yield and what broader impact their success will have on the humanities.”
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