2013
Former AOL Chief Jon Miller Joins Jana’s Board PR Newswire [May 14, 2013]
STUDY: Facebook Reigns Supreme in South Asia AllFacebook [May 14, 2013]
Pakistan Speaks: The biggest election issues Al Jazeera [May 10, 2013]
Boot up: app price woes, Syria traffic stops, Prenda Law phasered, and more The Guardian [May 8, 2013]
Which Countries Care Least-and Most-About the Environment Co.EXIST [April 24, 2013]
Big Data from Cheap Phones Technology Review [April 23, 2013]
Amazon Who? Why U.S. Success Matters Less to eBay Wired [April 18, 2013]
Q&A with Nathan Eagle, CEO and co-founder, Jana JWT Intelligence [April 10, 2013]
Facebook’s Real “Home” May Be the Developing World Technology Review [April 9, 2013]
Social Media and Mobile Greatly Impact Shopping Habits in Asian & African Countries Huffington Post [March 21, 2013]
How CNN gathered the view of 20k Africans for Pope story Journalism.co.uk [March 14, 2013]
Is the World Ready for an African Pope? CNN [March 12, 2013]
Survey: Africans ready for African Pope CNN [March 11, 2013]
Mobile Airtime Used as Currency to Engage Emerging Market Consumers Mobile World Conference [February 27, 2013]
Russians don’t watch TV, Indonesians don’t sleep and Indians don’t take lunch breaks Quartz [February 6, 2013]
Dumb Phones Are the Future of Advertising Wired Magazine [January 3, 2013]
2012
The Five Most Disruptive Technologies of 2012 Quartz [December 13, 2012]
Mobile Rewards Platform Jana Is Among Those Who Benefited from Zynga’s Boston Office Shutdown The Next Web [December 13, 2012]
MRS Honours Leaders and Innovators MrWeb [December 11, 2012]
10 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2013 Trendwatching.com [November 28, 2012]
Jana Asks Emerging Market Consumers “Obama or Romney?” PR Newswire [October 30, 2012]
The Power of Mobile: Africa & Beyond Think Mobile 2012 [October 16, 2012]
Android ‘has won the war of the operating systems’ Tech Radar [October 5, 2012]
The World’s Largest Payment Platform Can Reach 2 Billion People The Atlantic [October 2, 2012]
Jana – Reaching the Next Billion through Mobile MRMW 2012 [October 2, 2012]
Jana Mobile Expands Global Reach, Presence Increases to 3.48 Billion Mobile Consumers Worldwide PR Newswire [September 27, 2012]
Facebook’s plan to find its next billion users Quartz [September 24, 2012]
Danone Flourishes in Indonesia Warc [September 12, 2012]
Jana CEO Nathan Eagle on ‘Enabling Social Good’ VentureFizz [September 11, 2012]
Emerging-markets Product Development and Innovation Accenture [May 14, 2012]
New Apps for the Bottom Billion Technology Review [May 7, 2012]
Tracking Human Well-being through Mobile Phones UN Global Pulse [May 4, 2012]
5 Ways CMOs Can Win Over Emerging Markets CMO.com [May 1, 2012]
DDD 2012: Nathan Eagle: Closing Talk Digital Disease Detection Conference [April 24, 2012]
Why Mobile Ads in Emerging Markets are the Future Mashable [April 11, 2012]
Cell Phones Offer Targeted Marketing in Developing Countries Latitude News [March 12, 2012]
10 Ways Big Data Changes Everything GigaOM [March 11, 2012]
Access Emerging Markets Using Mobile Technology Social Media Week London 2012 [February 16, 2012]
Jana’s Eagle one of ’50 People who will Change the World’ Research Magazine [February 1, 2012]
The Smart List 2012: 50 People Who Will Change the World Wired Magazine [January 24, 2012]
The Marketing Agency For The Developing World Has The Mobile Number Of 2.1 Billion People Co.EXIST [January 23, 2012]
2011
The Top 6 in Boston Mobile in 2011 The Boston Globe [December 27, 2011]
Calling the Next Billion… McKinsey Journal [December, 2011]
Who’s Bigger than Coca-Cola? One Boston mobile company! The Boston Globe [November 21, 2011]
Accounts and People of Note in the Advertising Industry The New York Times [November 14, 2011]
Mobile Researcher Jana Opens Singapore Office Research Magazine [November 10, 2011]
Jana Opens New Office in Singapore Jana.com [November 9, 2011]
Reaching the Next Billion Consumers through Mobile Phones: The case of Jana Columbia Business [November 9, 2011]
Jana, Formerly Txteagle, Unveils Strategy for “Giving 2 Billion People a Raise” Xconomy [October 11, 2011]
Jana’s Quest to Redistribute Mobile Wealth GigaOM [September 29, 2011]
Mobile Tech Firm TxtEagle becomes Jana Research Magazine [September 28, 2011]
txteagle Renames as Jana, Expands Mobile Global Research and Marketing Jana.com [September 27, 2011]
Where Mobile Phones Matter: Reaching the Developing World GigaOM [September 26, 2011]
What Would You Like 2.1 Billion People to Do for You Today? GigaOM Mobilize 2011 Conference [September 26, 2011]
How Nathan Eagle’s Jana Service Aims to Top Up Africa Wired Magazine [August 2, 2011]
Announcing the 2011 OnMobile 100 Top Private Companies AlwaysOn [June 17, 2011]
A Chat with Serial Entrepreneur Nathan Eagle, txteagle: Mobile Research Conference 2011 [May 2, 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]
$8.5 million in new funding for txteagle, Boston firm that fields mobile phone surveys in developing countries Boston Globe [April 5, 2011]
Interview with Nathan Eagle, CEO, txteagle Inc The Guardian [April 5, 2011]
Txteagle Lands $8.5M, Led by Spark Capital, for Smarter Mobile Messaging Xconomy [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]
Portable Potential Research Magazine [February 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 Magazine [January 20, 2011]
2010
Nathan Eagle TED speech [November, 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
txteagle keynote at Etech09: short (6 min) or full (40 min) [March, 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 fuer 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]
2008
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