Zach Braff. Nine-year-olds. Penny Arcade. It doesn’t matter who has a Kickstarter out there… somebody is angry about it. But how angry should you actually be? Here’s a useful guide. Actually, it ...

The proliferation of crowd-funding sites has raised new issues around the ethics of online fundraising. Probably the best-known of these sites, Kickstarter, posted a statement on its blog Friday ...

The team behind the creative crowdfunding site Kickstarter has explained why it didn’t cancel a project offering backers a step-by-step guide to seducing women. The company said that when the page was ...

Following a storm of controversy over a “seduction guide” project that seemed to advise men to sexually assault women, self-funding company Kickstarter has apologized, revised its guidelines to ...

Kickstarter on Friday apologized for allowing a controversial "seduction guide" to be funded via its website, and pledged to ban similar material going forward. "We were wrong," the Kickstarter team ...

With that, Kickstarter said Friday that it had erred in not moving quickly to remove from its website a request for money for a book that critics described as a guide for would-be rapists. In a ...

In the earliest days of crowdsourcing, any cool-sounding idea that got enough people talking had a good chance of getting funded. But in 2014, funders are more discriminating, not to mention ...