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They're protesting big banks and corporations, so which start-ups are Occupy Wall Street looking to for collecting donations and financing a new media endeavor? The Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been camping out in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park since September 17 may be rallying against big-bank policies, but they've simultaneously needed an efficient method to fund their own efforts. To that end, they've turned away from large companies, instead working with start-ups in the online-payment and crowdfunding space

They're protesting big banks and corporations, so which start-ups are Occupy Wall Street looking to for collecting donations and financing a new media endeavor?

They're protesting big banks and corporations, so which start-ups are Occupy Wall Street looking to for collecting donations and financing a new media endeavor? The Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been camping out in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park since September 17 may be rallying against big-bank policies, but they've simultaneously needed an efficient method to fund their own efforts.

Betabrand's techies are beating fashionistas at their own game. Memes are helping build this e-commerce business one web-friendly, gimmicky item of apparel at a time

A mobile app that lets people send gift cards to friends is not the work of a deals company. But it is using discounts to deliver customers--especially the specific demographics individual merchants want--into brick-and-mortar stores. Daily deals have exploded into a $4 billion industry almost overnight because there’s no shortage of merchants who would like to lure online customers into their real-world establishments.

If Amazon's new Kindle Fire doesn't make it; it won't be from lack of hype in the press. Actually, I can give you a list of reasons why the Fire leaves me cool. First however, let's go over the launch details.

Lighter Capital, Rebirth Financial, Weemba, and Kabbage are four start-ups on a mission to connect you with cash. Need cash

How do you score a job at a buzz-worthy new venture fund if you don't have a background in finance, you're not an engineer, and never ran a venture-backed company? Be a muse, an authority, and maintain a serious network--that was the answer for Rachel Botsman, now a partner at Collaborative Fund .

By tapping the collective power of human problem solving, this online gaming platform isn't just fun, it's making real steps in the fight against disease. The latest: An AIDS breakthrough.

There are over 5 billion mobile subscribers in the world. I have no idea how many of them get the internet on their phone, but each day brings new advances in cheap hardware, bandwidth, and services.

Erly is founded by Hulu’s former technical and product leads. Collections is one of three applications the team plans to launch in the coming months

Every day just became your own personal film festival. Launching today, Prescreen is calling itself a "social movie discovery platform" that's designed to "give filmmakers and distributors an alternative to traditional advertising and distribution channels." That is, it's a web interface wrapped in a social network to a curated catalog of films that may otherwise have had difficulty finding a distribution deal.

Here's the short answer: buy one! There are lots of entrepreneurs out there (maybe you!) who have a great business plan that happens to have either an e-business part to it or all of it would be an e-business. Having the business acumen to come up with a rock-solid plan, dazzle investors, and maintain the determination to launch it are one thing. Having the tech chops to launch the online presence necessary (a website, a mobile website, an auction storefront on eBAy, etc.) is another set of, well, chops.

Take a deeper look at how Walmart plans to leverage the social data and connections of its massive customer base through its @WalmartLabs. Don’t know what to get your co-worker this Christmas? If all goes well at @WalmartLabs, Walmart may be able to suggest exactly what you and he and the neighbors and friends you both share are into.

[youtube _z1bwFD9bug] A number in the "very high six figures." That's how much it cost TabCo to run its recent eye-grabbing campaign, pitched to reveal a revolutionary innovation in the tablet PC market, according to Jonathan Bloom CEO of McGrath Power, the firm that ran it. That amount is a measure of the bet the tablet is placing on its new product, and also a guide to the complexity of the entire process--but that's just the start of it