Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine's president approved an increase in social spending that will balloon the government deficit, a move that will likely lead to a suspension of IMF lending to the country. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[Germany] Every financial crisis has its loosers, but it also has its winners. In Germany it is the “social lending” online platform Smava. Not only has Germany’s leading consumer safety group Stiftung Warentest recommended t (Read More)
readwriteweb:
When Facebook first welcomed 3rd party applications, Lending Club caused a stir with its peer-to-peer money exchange. While others like Prosper had paved the way for small online loans, only Lending Club dared to integrate it (Read More)
Mashable!:
Ford has generously offered to make a donation to Mashable’s Summer of Social Good Charity Fund. 50 of their Ford Fiesta Movement Agents will be donating $2 per retweet for this post up to 3,000 retweets.We’ve shown you simpl (Read More)
Mashable!:
As a part of our charitable campaign, the Summer of Social Good, we’ve focused on how individuals and organizations can use social media to create positive social change. This week, we’re focusing on the environment in partic (Read More)
Mashable!:
On Monday we asked you to submit a 12 second video of you doing something for the Summer of Social Good charity campaign – anything from exclaiming your support to playing a song…and you obliged! We’ve included a few of the (Read More)
Mashable!:
Do you have a webcam? Can you record a 12 second video? If so, you could win one of three Kodak Zi6 pocket cameras, courtesy of @KodakCB! We want you to create an entertaining 12 second clip to help raise awareness for the (Read More)
mashable:
This week we ran a special Summer of Social Good charity promotion and many of you got involved. Mashable and the whole Summer of Social Good team would like to thank everyone who donated, tweeted, retweeted and showed their (Read More)
Mashable!:
We’re one month into the Summer of Social Good and we’d like to provide a few tips for newcomers and previous donors about how to get more involved in the campaign. After a lot of great feedback and help from you, our readers (Read More)
Mashable!:
If you had 3.6 million Twitter followers and counting, what would you do with all of that influence? Well, if you’re Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) and Demi Moore (@mrskutcher), you’d put your combined Twitter influence (Ashton alo (Read More)
Mashable!:
This week, we’re announcing #FindingTheGood, our newest themed week of Mashable’s Summer of Social Good campaign. As a part of #FindingTheGood, we’ll be providing you with a closer look at the four charities involved in Summe (Read More)
Mashable!:
This week we’re offering you a special opportunity to get involved in the Summer of Social Good, Mashable’s social media charity fundraising campaign. We’re running #Stories4Good, a contest giving readers the chance to share (Read More)
mashable:
Are you part of the Summer of Social Good, Mashable’s social media charity fundraising campaign? This week we’re providing a special opportunity to get involved: we’re launching #Stories4Good, and we want to hear from you!Fr (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Lending more credence to reports that Facebook has a universal virtual payment platform in the works, is news that coin-counting machine company Coinstar will start selling prepaid online game cards this summer— including car (Read More)
Mashable!:
Mashable is proud to announce the first ever Summer of Social Good!Running from June 1st till August 28th 2009, the Summer of Social Good is the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online thro (Read More)
paidContent.org:
That's according to a report on WSJ that just came out. Rumors of Facebook taking in more money have been circulating for a while now, and now seems it may happen: Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian online investment group, (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Facebook is in the process of wrapping up a $150 million financing as it seeks to buy back stock from hundreds of its employees, Venturebeat reports, citing unidentified sources. This latest round comes a year after the soci (Read More)
CenterNetworks:
Social lending company Prosper has announced that they have resumed lending beginning today. Prosper CEO Chris Larsen has a blog post explaining the changes that are part of the updated offering.From the release, “The Califor (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook is a phenomenal success (at growing its network of users) and a miserable failure (at making money). Its attempts to make money have been mired in the Madison Avenue school of selling mass market stuff to consumers. (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Facebook has raised $500 million so far, but with costs mounting and ad-revenue growth slowing, that's not enough. BusinessWeek reports that the social-networking site is looking for credit lines of up to $100 million to fina (Read More)