CardUp positions itself as the middleman between organizations that don't usually accept credit cards, such as landlords or the government, and people who want to use their cards for recurring payments so they can take advantage of things like reward programs and extended credit terms.
A couple years ago, Josh Benton anticipated an iTunes model of journalism through these very devices that would soon cut out the middleman, the news organization: "a way for an individual writer to kind of go around getting the approval of a glossy magazine editor or getting a newspaper editor's approval to get something to an audience".
Founded by two former analysts at investment banks, Data Marketplace is essentially the middleman in helping financial organizations find quality data on the web.
As we wrote in our initial review of Data Marketplace earlier this year, the startup served as a middleman in helping financial organizations find quality data on the web.
Journalists will often try making a distinction between their outlets and WikiLeaks, which, some say, is more of a clearinghouse for documents or perhaps a middleman between a source and news organizations.
Drug prices in the United States are instead set in hundreds of negotiations by hospitals, insurers and pharmacies with drug manufacturers, with deals often brokered by powerful middlemen called group purchasing organizations and pharmacy benefit managers, who leverage their huge size to demand discounts.
security officials, concerned about the environmental organization's anti-nuclear campaigns, paid a middleman to break into the computer of Yannick Jadot, the former campaign director of Greenpeace France.
Both father and son, according to middleman Rivera Maradiaga, provided help and protection to a trafficking organization that moved massive shipments of cocaine to the United States.
Handweavers received access to new and extensive networks of middlemen, and moved toward new and efficient means of larger-scale organization.
But if you can't do this — if the organizations strike you as so egregious that even being a middleman is too much of a contradiction to your own worldview — remove yourself entirely from the equation.
