Apple is the most valuable technology company in the world (as of 2012), due to its array of desktop, laptop, and mobile products. Its 2007 introduction of the iPhone sparked a global boom in smartphones; its 2010 introduction of the iPad led to a revolution in the once-stagnant tablet space. Its iPhone design defined smartphone…
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SeeClickFix is a website and application that allows citizens to report non-emergency issues to local government. The Connecticut-based startup was founded in 2008 and offers free web and mobile phone tools to connect residents and local government bodies. SeeClickFix has partnered with about 800 news organizations as of 2011, including The New York Times, the Washington Post,…
Crosscut is a nonprofit news site that covers politics, the arts, and culture in the Pacific Northwest, with an emphasis on analysis over breaking news. The site was launched in 2007 by Seattle Weekly founder David Brewster. It is based in Seattle and has seven staff members and about 40 freelancers. The site specializes in…
The Christian Science Monitor is a Boston-based online news organization and former newspaper, the first national American newspaper to replace its daily print edition with a web operation. The Monitor is a nonprofit organization owned by the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Though the Monitor has been subsidized by the Christian Science church for most…
Bayosphere was a short-lived user-driven local news site in San Francisco. Bayosphere was launched in 2005 by former San Jose Mercury News columnist Dan Gillmor and Michael Goff and received investment funding from Mitch Kapor and the Omidyar Network. Gillmor shut the site down in January 2006, and the site was bought later that year…
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