Crowdsourcing

Waze Pushes Crowdsourcing For Petrol Pump Data

Google-owned navigation app Waze prompts users to provide data on petrol availability, as retailers argue social media fuels panic buying

3 years ago

Vendors Finding Value in Bug Bounty Programs

Bugcrowd report examines 30 months of bug bounty submissions across 166 programs, finds crowdsourced security is gaining industry-wide adoption

9 years ago

University Of Oxford Harnesses Student And Lecturer Brain Power With Cloud Platform

One of the world’s oldest universities is crowdsourcing ideas for innovative new digital projects

10 years ago

Google Adds Italy, Bulgaria To Crowdsourced Mapping Programme

Google has extended its Map Maker programme to Italy, Bulgaria, Vatican City and San Marino, allowing users to add local…

11 years ago

Ubuntu Edge Breaks Crowdfunding Record But Is Unlikely To Meet £20.8m Target

Ubuntu Edge celebrates new record, but has just six days to raise another £14 million

11 years ago

Ambitious Ubuntu Edge Funding Goal Is A Statement Of Intent – Canonical

Target of $32m is deliberately ambitious to encourage manufacturers to jump on board the Ubuntu Mobile train, Canonical tells TechWeek

11 years ago

Ubuntu Edge Smartphone Sets Record £20.8m Crowdsourcing Target

Canonical wants £20.8m to build 40,000 Ubuntu superphones

11 years ago

Kickstarter UK Receives £2m Pledges In One Month

Kickstarter UK announces it has received more than £2m in pledges for 407 projects

12 years ago

Kickstarter UK Launches, Pledges To Begin 31 October

Kickstarter UK projects can be submitted from today and can be launched and the end of the month

12 years ago

Hackney Starts Olympic Crowdsourced App Race

Local council's app competition will showcase Hackney and East London to the world next year

13 years ago

Crowdsourcing to Fix Broken Britain’s Transport

FixMyTransport is crowdsourcing to create pressure groups to fix broken-Britain's public transport system

13 years ago

Maude Relaunches Revolving Door To Open Data

The government is listening to ideas about data transparency and open to triggering new business ideas

13 years ago

Government Urged To Engage Public Digitally

The government should be making more use of digital channels to provide better services and save money

14 years ago

Salesforce To Acquire Jigsaw Crowdsource Site

Salesforce.com announces that it has agreed to acquire Jigsaw, a site that uses crowdsourcing to build and maintain an online…

15 years ago