March 6th, 2013

Matter, A For-Profit Media Accelerator Backed By KQED, Knight And PRX, Debuts First Class

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Public broadcasters continue to face a lot of pressure as going concerns in the face of bigger overall pressure for the media industry, and like all media companies, they are looking towards a new generation of entrepreneurs for innovation. Those two trends are coming together in a new accelerator, San Francisco-based Matter, which debuts its first class of startups today. → Read More

September 21st, 2012

MapBox, A Contributor To OpenStreetMap, Gets $575K From The Knight Foundation

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While Apple continues to weather very bad press (and embarrassing photographic evidence) over its fumble on Maps in iOS 6, here’s another development in the mapping world, also related to an Apple service. MapBox, which contributes to the open-source OpenStreetMap, used in Apple’s iPhoto service, is getting an injection of cash. Today MapBox announced a grant of $575,000 from the Knight… → Read More