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This startup wants to mix the best things about credit and debit into a...
Credit card companies want you to fall behind and start racking up debt, Zero CEO Bryce Galen tells Business Insider.That’s how they make their money.That can, however, be brutal for the consumer, and...
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PLEXAL: The quirky innovation centre with a 'high street' that's being set up...
A huge new innovation centre in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has been named Plexal.The £15 million space, which sits within the larger Here East complex and is being hailed as one of Europe's...
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Wish, the $3B startup challenging Amazon, is offering investors a sweet deal...
Wish, the stealthy e-commerce company that's challenging Amazon, has filed to raise a new round of funding, according to a Delaware filing posted by research firm CB Insights. According to the Oct. 24...
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This startup that makes and hosts GIFs is worth $600 million
Giphy just raised $72 million in funding despite the fact that it currently brings in no revenue.The New York-based startup announced the Series D round on Monday, which was led by Draper Fisher...
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11 successful tech execs who left Silicon Valley to disrupt the marijuana...
Entrepreneurs are seeing green when it comes to the legal marijuana industry.Pot sales could hit $20 billion by 2020, with help from the chief executives, founders, and product gurus abandoning the...
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$200 million startup Imgur cut 15 percent of its staff months after Reddit...
Imgur, home to "the most awesome images on the internet," has had a tough year. In late May, Reddit ditched Imgur after making its own photo-uploading tool, even though Imgur had long been the popular...
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Karhoo gave some users over £100 in free taxi rides before it went bust
Taxi startup Karhoo announced on its website yesterday that it was shutting down after running out of money.The company, which claimed to be bigger than Uber, reportedly raised $250 million (£201...
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I got this tweet around 11pm last night:@fredwilson what does a trump victory does to startup funding? Will be nice to read a post about this. Thx. A concerned founder &a citizen — S. Daniel Leon...
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Job Today raised $20 million from Flint Capital, Channel 4, and an early...
Job Today, an app that aims to help people find casual jobs quickly and easily, has raised $20 million (£16 million), bringing total investment in the company up to $30 million (£24 million).The...
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Karhoo was asking investors for $10 million before it launched, not $250 million
Last year, taxi price comparison app Karhoo's CEO Daniel Ishag was trying to convince investors in Silicon Valley and London to back his taxi app idea with their millions.The startup, which shut down...
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A taxi company is claiming failed startup Karhoo owes it £12,000
A London-based minicab company is claiming failed startup Karhoo owes it thousands of pounds.Swift Cars wrote in a tweet last week that Karhoo owes the company and its drivers approximately...
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A former Tesla exec and the founder of TrueCar are teaming up to reinvent...
A former Tesla executive who oversaw finance operations in Germany and the founder and former CEO of the internet auto resource TrueCar.com have partnered to launch a new car-financing startup,...
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Two former Apple and LloydsPharmacy execs have launched a healthcare startup
Former Apple exec Dr Sai Lakshmi and former LloydsPharmacy exec Stephen Bourke has launched a healthcare startup called Echo.The startup, which has been backed with £1.8 million, has built an app that...
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The 17 easiest places to start a business
Starting a business is never easy or stress-free.But there are places you can go to start your dream company with fewer restrictions than others.The World Bank compiled a report on the best and worst...
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The 39 most creative people in UK tech
The UK's technology scene is filled with some seriously creative people. Whether designers who have come up with innovative branding, inventors behind new hardware, or markets, we've collected them all...
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William Tunstall-Pedoe: The Cambridge AI guru who taught Amazon's Alexa how...
"Sorry, I knew this was going to happen," says British entrepreneur William Tunstall-Pedoe shortly after I start interviewing him at his home in Cambridge.We've just been interrupted by Alexa — the...
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The 15 hottest New York City startups you need to watch
The New York tech scene is on the rise. In just the last few months, we've seen the $3 billion-dollar acquisition of Jet and talks of IPOs on the horizon for Blue Apron and Pinterest. Silicon Valley...
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This 35-year-old started his company in his college dorm — and just sold it...
On Monday, Oracle announced that it bought Dyn.Dyn is one of those old-fashioned Silicon Valley startup stories, particularly for its 35-year-old former CEO and founder Jeremy Hitchcock — only this...
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Jared Kushner took a very Silicon Valley approach to running the Trump campaign
When it came to helping Donald Trump's campaign, Jared Kushner tapped the tech world for help and inspiration.Kushner, who is Trump's son-in-law and the older brother of New York venture capitalist...
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A super-quick history of Skyscanner, the Scottish travel startup selling for...
Skyscanner, a travel search engine, is being acquired for a whopping £1.4 billion.It's a big exit for the Scottish company, which is selling itself to Chinese company Ctrip.com — reportedly the biggest...
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