The Next Web sat down with Esther Dyson, a world leading angel investor, to learn something about her top investments and trends, mainly in eastern Europe. Dyson, CEO of EDventure Holdings, is an active investor in a variety of start-ups around the world

Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where he covered Facebook product changes, privacy, the Ad

We asked veteran technology writer and investor Esther Dyson, a longtime friend of Personal Democracy, for her thoughts on a current controversy: is the open web dying? With Faceboo

What it does: It provides a plug-in application for Gmail and customer relationship management, or CRM, systems that helps employees in sales and business development save time on sending emails. How it's doing: The company, which released its signature

China Daily distributed an article by its New York correspondent Esther Dyson, which clearly indicates that China supports the White Revolution in Russia. China Daily is often used to inform about the official policy of Communist China, writes the Englis

Nieman Reports editor Melissa Ludtke talked by phone with Peter Osnos, the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs books. In "The Platform," a weekly column he writes for The Century Foundation, Osnos often focuses on book publishing. The two decade

In the general atmosphere here in Davos of worry and apprehension, it was great to be able to sit down with Esther Dyson this afternoon and get a dose of refreshing optimism — and about Russia, of all places. There’s an elite group of Russian technologis

Drei Wissenschaftler, drei Meinungen, eine Familie: „Wir sind uns einig, dass wir uns uneinig sind“, scherzt Esther Dyson. Deshalb sei in der Familie immer klar gewesen, dass jeder in unterschiedlichen Bereichen tätig sein sollte. Alle drei sind herausra

Last March at SXSW, Tim O’Reilly called Fluidinfo his favorite startup. Three years earlier, Robert Scoble said it was “unfundable” but “world-changing” – yet Fluidinfo has since raised $1.3 million from investors including Esther Dyson and O’Reilly hims

In December, HealthRally, a social healthtech startup building a crowdfunding platform for personal health motivation, raised $400,000 in seed funding from prominent angel investors like Esther Dyson, Isy Goldwasser, Dick Sass, Ty Danco, and Jeff Thiel.

Zeel, a startup that offers consumers a way to find and book massage therapists, personal trainers, nutritionists, acupuncturists and other wellness practitioners, has raised $1.5 million in funding from Matt Ocko of Archimedes Capital, Esther Dyson, Ken

By L. Gordon Crovitz The Internet is celebrated as a machine that runs by itself, but this is not quite accurate. The Web does have oversight, just not by any multinational organization, national government or regulator. It's run by a small, private, non

The Internet is celebrated as a machine that runs by itself, but this is not quite accurate. The Web does have oversight, just not by any multinational organization, national government or regulator. It's run by a small, private, nonprofit institution th

If you're reading this site, the odds are that you're optimistic about how technology is changing politics worldwide. That's certainly the conclusion of many from the diverse array of smart people from the worlds of government, technology, journalism and

The Commerce Department urged Icann in a Jan. 3 letter to respond to industry complaints about a plan to add hundreds of top-level Internet domains beyond .com, while making clear that the government does not wish to interfere with the group’s decisions

Politics. —Daron Acemoglu • Economic stagnation in wealthy countries. —Tyler Cowen • In the short run, a trifecta: the euro, the gridlock in the U.S. Congress, and the slowdown in China. —Daniel Bradlow • Anti-market bias. —Bryan Caplan • Procrastination

This essay is not a blanket criticism against anti-power activism. Indeed, in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia, the old political class must be removed in order to create spaces for new forms of accountability and participation to blossom. Too often,

Esther Dyson Esther in a spacesuit 'Zero-G Esther' Esther Dyson (Twitter: edyson) is a most fascinating lady. She's a noted former journalist; a captivated Internet scholar; an acclaimed angel; a passionate philanthrop

MOSCOW, RUSSIA, December 28, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- VitaPortal Company, a leading provider of multi-channel information exchange for consumers and healthcare professionals in Russia, has announced the addition of three US healthcare luminaries to the