In August 2009 NowPublic was acquired by billionaire Phillip Anschutz for a reported 25 million dollars.
[2] In 2009, Tippett was recognized by the British Columbia New Media Association with an award for visionary leadership.
Tippett is a member of the University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism Advisory Board, The Capilano University, Advisory Committee and is also a board member of CABINET, a Vancouver-based arts organization.
In 2004 he collaborated with Kate Armstrong to produce Grafik Dynamo, a net art piece that loads live images from blogs and news sources on the web into a live action comic strip.
Grafik Dynamo was a commission of Turbulence, made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.