StudyBlue raises $9M for mobile crowd-sourced learning platform
Tweet Hundreds of mobile apps promise to boost students’ grades and help them prep for tests, but with an approach …
Crowdsourced
Like it or not, real-time crowdsourced news verification is here to stay
Tweet There’s been a lot written since the horrific events of last weekend about what the media should or shouldn’t …
How Waze’s crowd-sourced data helped FEMA deliver the gas after Sandy
Tweet Close to 30 million mobile app users turn to Waze to tap its crowd-sourced data for car directions. The …
Udacity looks to expand internationally with crowdsourced captions
Tweet E-learning startup Udacity has partnered with Amara, formerly known as Universal Subtitles, to use crowdsourcing for closed captioning of …
Duolingo raises $15M for language learning and crowdsourced translation
Tweet Computer scientist and entrepreneur Luis von Ahn has already put the crowd to work identifying images online and digitizing …