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Kakao News Funding Expands Content Coverage

SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao has announced that it will be expanding its News Funding crowd funding service into a new service called Story Funding. Story Funding allows creators of content other than news such as books, music, movies and new technologies to receive funding. The company’s goal is to expand its [...]

Daum Uses Crowdfunding to Produce New Type of News

SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Communications launched a new type of news service which makes news by utilizing crowdfunding on the Internet. The new scheme called news funding raises money from many people on the Internet to produce news items. On its website (http://m.newsfund.media.daum.net/), people contribute some money to good ideas that they want [...]