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Some of Europe's biggest startups just launched a new lobbying group to push...
European tech is getting organised: Some of the biggest startups on the continent are teaming up to launch a new lobby group to promote their political interests.Music streaming service Spotify, mobile...
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Now there's a nerdy card game that pits Silicon Valley's hottest tech...
Of course there's a card game about Silicon Valley's hottest startups. A freshly launched game called MJOM Cards pits hot tech startups like Uber, Pinterest, and Airbnb against other tech giants like...
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Localize, a startup Uber and Microsoft use to translate their websites, just...
Getting your startup off the ground is the hardest part. But once you gain traction, you have to start thinking about more complex issues, like building a payment processing system and deciding what...
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Customers of dead house-cleaning startup Homejoy are being funneled to a...
Homejoy, the dead cleaning startup that shuttered its doors in August, has apparently awoken from the grave to email its customers about a new partner: Fly Maids.But, it turns out Fly Maids just isn't...
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The 13 hottest startups in Scotland
Scotland is one of the biggest UK hubs for tech startups outside of London.Skyscanner is a star, but the country's startup scene extends far beyond that. Scottish companies are launching famous games,...
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Controversial $9 billion health startup Theranos may be raising another $200...
$9 billion Theranos, the controversial blood-test startup, may be raising another $200 million, Fortune's Dan Primack reports.Theranos has raised an undisclosed total sum of venture capital funding,...
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Sochat lets you text anyone nearby — even strangers whose numbers aren't in...
What if there were a way to text anyone around you without needing a person's phone number — or even without Wi-Fi or cell-phone service?That's the goal of a new messaging app called Sochat, which...
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The SEC just made it easier for startups to raise money
The Securities and Exchange Commission just signed off on a proposal that will make it easier for small startups to raise funds.The regulation allows companies to raise up to $1 million by selling...
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I used the startup that gives you a free personal stylist and my wardrobe is...
I hate clothes shopping.Walking around shops, trying on clothes, glancing at price tags — I don't enjoy any of that. The closest I have come to enjoying a shopping experience happened after I downed a...
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Handy, a startup that sends someone to clean your home, just raised $50...
On-demand home cleaning has not exactly proven itself to be the easiest business. Earlier this year, Homejoy shuttered, and one European cleaning service, Hassle, was acquired by another, Helpling. In...
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11 startups with more innovative perks than pingpong tables and beer kegs
More and more startups have realized that benefits like creative equity plans and favorable parental-leave policies increase employee satisfaction better than pool tables and endless supplies of free...
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$10 billion WeWork is raising $750 million in debt financing
WeWork is raising a $750 million round of debt financing, according to The New York Times.The super-hot office rental company, which has raised $969 million in funding at a $10 billion valuation, is...
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30 Goldman Sachs alumni who went on to lead startups (GS)
Goldman Sachs mints millionaires, but some of the bank's employees achieve career highs only once they've left Wall Street.Just ask Spencer Rascoff: the former Goldman banker spent years working at...
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The unicorns of China: 11 Chinese startups you need to know
Uber might be the most valuable private company in the world, but a slew of Chinese companies are right behind it. The Chinese startup space is largely dominated by investments from two behemoths:...
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Marc Andreessen: 'We're in a long-term tech bust,' not a bubble
In Silicon Valley, you can't escape bubble talk.On one side of the ring, Benchmark investor Bill Gurley, who was an investor during the dot-com bubble, has been sounding the alarm that companies are...
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Airbnb appears to have dodged a bullet in its hometown
Airbnb appears to have survived what could have been a huge blow to its business in San Francisco.Proposition F, a local ballot measure that was seen as a threat to Airbnb in its hometown, looks to...
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Investors just poured $500 million into Jet.com, the buzzy Amazon-killer...
Jet.com, the e-commerce startup that is trying to take on Amazon, is raising a $500 million round led by Fidelity, Fortune reports. The round gives the Hoboken-based startup a $1.5 billion post-money...
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This Cambridge-approved startup says it can make you smarter in just 8 hours...
Education startup Macat wants to use the power of Cambridge to make you a better critical thinker, and it has raised $30 million to help boost its online learning platform out of the beta testing...
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This startup wants to make sure you never have spotty WiFi again — and it's...
For anyone who has had to suffer through a spotty WiFi signal in their home, hardware startup Eero has an intoxicating promise: to fix that once and for all. The trick to the Eero dream is using...
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Hyped-up Amazon-killer Jet, which has raised $720 million, is reportedly...
Jet, the Amazon-killer startup that is raising a new round of funding, is running out of cash, the Wall Street Journal's Rolfe Winkler reports.An earlier report from Fortune indicated that Jet was...
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