Article: 'Technology is at the center': entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel on liberty and scientific progress.(Interview)

Article: Ray Kurzweil Joins the Singularity Institute's Board of Directors and Promotes $400,000 Online Matching Challenge.
Business Wire;  May 20, 2007 ;     331 words ......ALTO, Calif. -- The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence...Kurzweil joined the Singularity Institute's Board of Directors...org/challenge, the Singularity Institute plans to greatly expand...speakers. The ideas of a singularity scenario and Friendly...May 21st, ...

Article: Singularity Summit At Stanford Explores Future Of 'Superintelligence'.
Business Wire;  April 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Program and the Singularity Institute for Artificial...research fellow of the Singularity Institute for Artificial...Management president Peter Thiel; Steve Jurvetson...director of the Singularity Institute for Artificial...net, MINE, the Singularity ...

Article: Intel CTO and Ray Kurzweil Among Visionaries Headlining Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership.
Business Wire;  August 29, 2008 ;     630 words ......Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence announced...Justin Rattner, who will examine the Singularity's plausibility. At the Intel Developer...greater than human intelligence. Singularity Summit 2008 will feature an impressive...professor at MIT, ...

Article: Techies Ponder Computers Smarter Than Us
AP Online;  September 9, 2007 ;     554 words ......founder of the Palo Alto-based Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which...outcome. Kurzweil, director of the Singularity Institute, is so confident in his predictions...years. By comparison, according Singularity Institute researchers, the entire evolution...

Article: Xoom Secures First Round of Funding; International Remittance Service Startup Raises over $800,000 in Oversubscribed Series A.
Business Wire;  October 1, 2003 ;     350 words ......Xoom will be launching its service to India later this month. Peter Thiel, former chairman and CEO of PayPal, was the lead investor...I'm extremely excited to join this promising company, said Peter Thiel. Xoom has the seasoned team and technology platform in place...

Article: Sean Parker of Facebook, Plaxo, Napster Joins Founders Fund as Managing Partner.
Business Wire;  December 14, 2006 ;     367 words ......venture capital firm launched by PayPal co-founder and CEO Peter Thiel, announced today that Sean Parker will join as managing partner...experience building innovative companies from scratch, said Peter Thiel. He has transformed the web three times in less than a decade...

Article: Founders Fund to Discuss Major Announcement at Media Teleconference.
Business Wire;  December 17, 2007 ;     137 words ......Managing Partners, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Sean Parker and Peter Thiel who have backed companies such as Facebook, Slide, Powerset...Founders Fund Managing Partners Ken Howery Luke Nosek Sean Parker Peter Thiel DIAL-IN DETAILS: Dial-in: (877) 755-2774 Conference I.D...

Article: Hope floats.(Brief article)
Reason;  August 1, 2008 ;     219 words ......infrastructure and plenty of space to moor your boat, might be something like the platform imagined above. In April, PayPal founder Peter Thiel announced a $500, 000 investment in the Seasteading Institute. Thiel's co-conspirator and resident big thinker is none other...

Article: 'Technology is at the center'.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Reason;  August 1, 2008 ;     262 words ...I enjoyed Ronald Bailey's interview with the entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel ( 'Technology Is at the Center,' May). Thiel seems exceedingly bright and articulate, with well-thought-out philosophies about...

Article: Clickable Completes Series A Funding Totaling $6 Million.
Business Wire;  December 3, 2007 ;     678 words ......Attracts Investment from Pequot Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Peter Thiel and Jonathan Miller NEW YORK -- Clickable (www.Clickable.com...round included investments from strategic individual investors Peter Thiel, Managing Partner of The Founders Fund and Co-founder of PayPal...

Article: Facebook Secures $25M Investment; Greylock Partners Leads Investment to Support Facebook's Continued Growth.
Business Wire;  April 19, 2006 ;     460 words ......Greylock Partners led the financing while Meritech Capital Partners and Facebook's existing investors Accel Partners and Peter Thiel also participated. Facebook's website has grown to over 7 million people and, according to comScore, ranks as the 7th most...

Article: The real community organizer: Craig Newmark on Craigslist, libertarianism, online democracy, and nerd values.(Culture and Reviews)(Interview)
Reason;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......also a member of a loosely affiliated fraternity of power geeks, along with figures such as Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, PayPal's Peter Thiel, and Google's Larry Page. What do these guys have in common? Newmark calls it nerd values, the drive to earn a comfortable...

Article: ISAC Announces Accelerating Change 2004: Physical Space, Virtual Space, and Interface -- AC2004; November 5-7 at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
Business Wire;  October 27, 2004 ;     464 words ......Creator of the mouse; --Jaron Lanier, Virtual Reality Pioneer -- Founder, VPL Research; --Will Wright, Creator of The Sims; --Peter Thiel, Co-founder and former CEO, PayPal; --BJ Fogg, Director, Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University; --Gordon Bell, Project...

Article: eBay Completes PayPal Acquisition.
Business Wire;  October 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ......approximately 65% of the outstanding shares of PayPal common stock representing more than 99% of the shares voting. In addition, Peter Thiel announced today that he has resigned as PayPal's CEO. Matt Bannick, eBay's senior vice president, global online payments...