by Kyle Stone and Kevin Connor Our research project on the Bay Area’s ten largest corporations was fully funded on Spot.us in early October and has come to a close, but with it we’ve built a lasting resource that we hope will continue to pay dividends for watchdog efforts in California. We focused on identifying and …
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Intel Inside? Let’s Try ‘Inside Intel’ Instead.
Lobbyists Groups Hired in 2009 ($80,000 or more): American Continental Group Cassidy and Associates Board of Directors: Noteworthy Members: Reed E. Hundt: according to an official Federal Communications Commission biography, Hundt was named Chairman of the FCC by President Clinton and was sworn in by Vice President Gore in1993, a position he filled for five …
Wells Fargo, Wachovia, and the Vulcan Three
Last October, in a stunning turn of events at the height of the Wall Street crisis, Wachovia backed out of a deal with Citigroup and agreed to a $15 billion merger with Wells Fargo — the biggest bank merger ever. The Charlotte-based Wachovia had recently collapsed under the weight of its own mortgage portfolio and …
Banking on Birmingham
Yesterday, using basic features of LittleSis, I discovered that the key matchmaker in the biggest, most complex bank merger in the history of Wall Street was a construction aggregate supply company based in Birmingham, Alabama. Strange as it may seem, the evidence strongly suggests that individuals associated with this company leveraged their networks to bring …
Google: The world’s search engine
I spent last week investigating Apple for our project Who’s Behind the Bay Area’s Top Ten Companies?, which we’ve posted as a pitch on Spot.us. Good thing I researched Apple — number eight on our list of the Bay Area’s top 10 companies — because I’ve spent this week probing Google and there are a …
Almost There! Only $115 to go on Bay Area Funding
After about six weeks of drawing interest, building new friendships, and researching our brains out, we’ve managed to collect 27 donations from organizations and individuals who are rallying behind the Bay Area Research Project. The result? We’re inspired, and working harder than ever to close the funding gap, and publish our final research. Why Donating …
Bay Area Research Project News Clips
I’m going to start posting a locality-specific version of the NameWire (let’s call it SFNewsWire) in order to shed light on recent activity and happenings affecting the Bay Area organizations we’re researching with Spot.us. AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah partners with IBM for Green Data Center (Routers.com) Lloyd Dean, CEO of Catholic Healthcare West, …
LittleSis Launches Citizen Journalist Project, Spot.us Partnership
In an era where the traditional means for funding journalism projects have all but evaporated, David Cohn has a sharp sense of where the future of journalism is heading. As the founder and ringleader of Spot.us, David’s ideas have materialized into an open source platform that has pioneered an innovative, original model of”community funded reporting”: …