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Investment Company For SMBs To Be Created
Fp Archives • 17 years agoThis joint Investment Company is expected to provide capital to small and medium businesses in underserved markets.
The word 'scale' is changing social entrepreneurship
Srividya • 13 years agoHere's why it is difficult for enterprises focused on the rural market to raise funds.
Online classifieds Quikr raises another $60 mn in funding
Fp Archives • 10 years agoQuikr is a large-scale cross-category online classifieds business with more than 30 million monthly consumer and small businesses users in 940 cities.<br />
eBay's Omidyar and his Next Adventure in Journalism'
Fptechno • 11 years agoeBay Inc founder Pierre Omidyar has become the latest self-made tech baron to plunge into the struggling news industry - hot on the heels...
eBay's Omidyar wants readers to be engaged citizens
Fp Archives • 11 years agoUnlike Bezos, the French-born Iranian American says he aims to build a new "mass media organization" from the ground up, and his first recruits are the journalists who exposed the US government's surveillance programs, using documents leaked by former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.
eBay's Omidyar wants readers to be engaged citizens
Fp Archives • 11 years agoUnlike Bezos, the French-born Iranian American says he aims to build a new "mass media organization" from the ground up, and his first recruits are the journalists who exposed the US government's surveillance programs, using documents leaked by former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Ebay founder to launch independent mass-market news venture
Fptechno • 11 years agoEBay Inc founder Pierre Omidyar on Wednesday said he is building an independent media organization covering news from sports to politics...
Glenn Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture
Fptechno • 11 years agoGlenn Greenwald, who has made headlines around the world with his reporting on U.S. electronic surveillance programs, is leaving the Guardian...