Media
2011
Who’s Bigger than Coca-Cola? One Boston mobile company! The Boston Globe [November 21, 2011]
Virgin’s Branson says business as usual needs change Reuters [December 9, 2011]
Accounts and People of Note in the Advertising Industry The New York Times [November 14, 2011]
Jana Opens New Office in Singapore Jana.com [November 9, 2011]
txteagle Renames as Jana, Expands Mobile Global Research and Marketing Jana.com [September 27, 2011]
Announcing the 2011 OnMobile 100 Top Private Companies AlwaysOn [June 17, 2011]
Mobile startup Txteagle uses SMS to gather consumer insights in emerging markets The Next Web [April 25, 2011]
Startup Uses SMS for Research & Advertising in Developing Countries Mashable [April 13, 2011]
TxtEagle Raises $8.5 Million To Give 2.1 Billion A Voice TechCrunch [April 12, 2011]
Text message crowdsourcing startup TxtEagle raises $8.5m Research Magazine [April 7, 2011]
Txteagle Has 2.1 Billion Phone Numbers and $8.5 Million Dollars AllThingsD [April 5, 2011]
Txteagle Has 2.1 Billion Numbers on Speed Dial MarketWatch [April 5, 2011]
$8.5 million in new funding for txteagle, Boston firm that fields mobile phone surveys in developing countries Boston Globe [April 5, 2011]
Txteagle raises $8.5M with Spark Capital Boston Business Journal [April 5, 2011]
Interview with Nathan Eagle, CEO, txteagle Inc The Gaurdian [April 5, 2011]
Txteagle raises $8.5M with Spark Capital Mass High Tech [April 5, 2011]
Africans Use Mobile Phones for Roles Beyond Communicating PC World [April 1, 2011]
txteagle in Flight: Mobile Data Collection for Disaster Preparedness MobileActive [Feb. 6, 2011]
Mobile phones: a matter of life and death The Independent [February 1, 2011]
Kenya’s Banking Revolution TIME [January 31, 2011]
Not just talk The Economist [January 27,2011]
The Power of Text in the Developing World Research [January 20, 2011]
2010
Crowdsourcing Jobs to a Worldwide Mobile Workforce Technology Review [Nov. 24, 2010]
Small Solutions To Big Problems Forbes [November 17, 2010]
The Growing Potential of Mobile Phones Boston Review [November 16, 2010]
Mobile Work: A Way to Earn Money by Texting The Economist [October 28 2010]
Can the world’s poor text their way out of poverty? The Financial Times [September 24 2010]
Jobs for a Two Billion Global Workforce The Huffington Post [August 11 2010]
Mobile Distributed Wealth Future Of Health [August 2, 2010]
For growth opportunities, don’t overlook Africa Fortune [June 28, 2010]
txteagle Betavine [June 23, 2010]
New ICTs for Development GSDRC [June 14, 2010]
Tech Brief: txteagle BBC News [June 3, 2010]
Txteagle takes outsourcing to cell phones New Mexico Business Weekly [April 16, 2010]
Kenya’s Mobile Crowdsourcing Innovation – Txteagle Trendbird [Mar 13, 2010]
Crowdsourcing in Africa Afrinnovator [March 6, 2010]
Nathan Eagle, founder of Txteagle JWT Intelligence [March 3, 2010]
The HR Merger HRN Europe [February 15, 2010]
How Anywhere is reshaping African life 4G Trends [January 20 2010]
The end of the office… and the future of work The Boston Globe [January 17 2010]
2009
Mobile-volunteering puts thumbs to work for good causes CNN [Oct 29 2009]
Bringing tech jobs to Third World refugees CNET [Oct 14 2009]
Virtual workforce found in Kenyan refugee camp The New Scientist [Oct 14 2009]
Africa’s SMS crisis – and how to stop it VentureBeat [Sep 25 2009]
Mobile operators killing SMS revolution Business Daily [Sep 24 2009]
Data mining : du micropaiement au nanojob L’Expansion [French] [Sep 4 2009]
Make money through the mobile phone The Hindu [Aug 9 2009]
SMS, breve storia di 160 caratteri Punto Informatico [Italian] [May 5 2009]
Telefoni cellular important per il terzo mondo Business Online [Italian][March 26 2009]
Prepaid call credits as currency CNET Asia [March 17 2009]
ETech: Afrika goudmijn voor mobiele industrie Emerce [Dutch] [March 12 2009]
Kenya Is On Call for Mobile Crowdsourcing Wired [March 11 2009]
New service is all in a day’s SMS BBC [Feb 11 2009]
Cellphones tap wisdom of the crowds The New Scientist [Feb 11 2009]
Handy-Crowdsourcing für Entwicklungshilfe Be24 [German] [Feb 4 2009]
Start-Up vergibt Arbeiten per Handy nach Afrika Die Presse [German] [Jan 29 2009]
Esempi di mobile crowdsourcing: txteagle e Mob4Hire One Mobile [Italian] [Jan 26 2009]
Crowd-Sourcing the World Technology Review [Jan 21 2009]
Video
A Chat with Serial Entrepreneur Nathan Eagle, txteagle: Mobile Research Conference 2011 [May 2, 2011]
Nathan Eagle TED speech [November, 2010]
txteagle keynote at Etech09: short (6 min) or full (40 min) [March, 2009]
Audio
txteagle was featured on the CBC radio program Spark
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Press Releases
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