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UK tech startups saw their funding fall by 40% as the nation voted for Brexit
Investment into UK tech companies fell by more than 40% in the second quarter of the year as the UK voted to leave the European Union, according to venture capital research firm CB Insights.VC-backed...
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These are the 15 most expensive sneakers in the world, which sell for up to...
Sneakers have some of the most passionate collectors, and a vibrant $1+ billion resale market.That market is so good that when Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert wanted to create a stock market for...
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Unilever buys on-demand toiletry service Dollar Shave Club for a reported...
Unilever is making an investment in the on-demand space, announcing Wednesday that it had agreed to buy Dollar Shave Club. While specific financial terms were not disclosed, Fortune, which first...
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Go inside the chic Brooklyn loft owned by an entrepreneur who wants to make...
Tze Chun is making it easier to buy art. Her company, Uprise Art, is an online gallery that features the work of emerging contemporary artists, matching customers with a personal art advisor who can...
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The war for your face is heating up like never before
The "shaving wars" between traditional cartridge slingers like Gillette and online startups who offer subscription models at lower prices is heating up. With the news that European consumer goods giant...
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This tech entrepreneur turned $800 into a massive bus empire used by Facebook...
When Armir Harris was 16, his family immigrated from Albania to the Atlanta, Georgia metro area as polticial refugees seeking asylum. Having no other options, and "out of necessity," his parents ended...
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A car startup in Los Angeles is getting everyone's attention with these...
Startups typically employ some unconventional methods to get the word out about their products and services.At best, these companies can hope to stir up conversation around the brand. At worst, it...
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The Oxford grad who was on 'The Apprentice' is launching a dating app that...
Vana Koutsomitis, a runner-up on TV show "The Apprentice," is looking to raise £120,000 for the dating app that she pitched to Lord Sugar in the final of the BBC show.DatePlay, as the app is known,...
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Deliveroo has built a clause into courier contracts to 'scare' them off...
Deliveroo is building clauses into the contracts of its couriers that prevent them from taking the food delivery startup to court to try to be recognised as staff members, The Guardian reports.The...
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Take Eat Easy is shutting down its food delivery business as Uber muscles in
Take Eat Easy, the Belgium-founded food delivery startup, is shutting down after running out of money to sustain itself.Founded in 2013, Take Eat Easy struggled to raise a new round of funding in...
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A startup with an app that helps people get to sleep has raised £9 million
Big Health, a UK digital health startup that's aiming to reduce worldwide consumption of pills and potions, has raised $12 million (£9.15 million) to grow its company and build new apps and products...
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The tech industry's new perk: zero-down mortgages on up to $2 million homes
Top tech workers in San Francisco can add another perk to the free meals and massages: zero-down mortgages.Housing prices in the San Francisco Bay Area have gone insane in the past few years, to put it...
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Andy Murray helped a healthy eating startup that delivers food to the...
Food delivery service Mindful Chef has raised £1 million in crowdfunding on the Seedrs platform with help from sports stars including Wimbledon champion Andy Murray, Olympian gold medallist Victoria...
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The CEO and cofounder of student media site The Tab has left the company
Student media startup The Tab has lost its CEO and cofounder.George Marangos-Gilks, who started The Tab at Cambridge University with editor-in-chief Jack Rivlin in 2012, confirmed his departure to...
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$16 billion WeWork's huge co-living bet isn't actually that crazy, but that...
“Co-living,” the idea of young professionals living in dorm-like surroundings, has been billed as the hot new trend in housing. WeWork, the $16 billion co-working startup, is reportedly betting that...
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These are the tech jobs that have the best and worst work-life balance
The tech industry, and the hectic startup life in particular, can do a number on work-life balance.But some jobs within tech companies are easier than others, according to research by Comparably, a...
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Tech investors are tapping into a £2.5 billion fund created by Britain's 5...
Business Growth Fund (BGF) — a £2.5 billion investment company that backs businesses across the UK — decided to allocate £200 million to an early stage venture capital (VC) fund almost exactly a year...
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Uber just suffered its largest setback — and startups should take note
Uber is throwing in the towel in China.After a gruelling ground war, the California-based ride-hailing company is officially selling its Chinese unit to its rival in the country, Didi Chuxing.Uber has...
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The unwritten rules of working at a startup that no one likes to talk about
When it comes to working at a startup, there are a lot of truths that people rarely talk about. Startup life has become shrouded in myth. People think it's a shortcut to the American Dream, a...
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Germany is writing to UK startups to try and persuade them to move to Berlin...
A German politician is writing to London startups in an attempt to persuade them to relocate to Berlin after the Brexit vote.Berlin Senator for Economics, Technology and Research Cornelia Yzer is...
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