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Money Intel Wants To Help Companies Quickly Set Up And Manage A 401(k)
For smaller companies, setting up a 401(k) can be one of the most difficult exercises — but it’s still one of the most important ones. That’s why Money Intel is trying to simplify that process and make it easy to set up one in a few minutes.
For small businesses, setting up a 401(k) is one of the most important steps for its employees — both financially and symbolically. Read More
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Emburse Looks To Help Companies Issue Prepaid Company Debit Cards On The Fly
Not every employee, especially those at smaller businesses, can get a corporate credit card — but they still need to pay company-related expenses. That’s where Emburse, a startup that issues prepaid cards quickly to employees, is hoping to help. Emburse works with a card-issuer and a bank to help companies issue company cards with specific balances that it can manage closely,… Read More
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John Doerr Talks Diversity, Execution And The Future Of Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr hopes that his firm will find itself at a “50/50” ratio, where it has successfully brought in a diverse set of new partners — a problem that has long-plagued the venture capital industry. He spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015. “I made it really clear even at Kleiner Perkins, where I’m deeply committed to diversity, we have done… Read More
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CloudFlare Hints IPO Coud Be Coming, But Not This Year
Just this morning, CloudFlare announced a $110 million round led by Fidelity Investments, and on stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Michelle Zatlyn, CloudFlare’s head of customer experience, told TechCrunch’s Frederic Lardinois the company definitely won’t be IPOing this year — but she hinted that it’s out there on the horizon. When a big round is led by… Read More
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AOL/Verizon Completes Spinout Of CrunchBase Funded By Emergence Capital
CrunchBase, the database of startups, other tech companies and the people who work in them that was originally developed alongside TechCrunch, is spinning out from AOL/Verizon. Emergence Capital is leading an investment in the newly-independent company, while AOL/Verizon — owner of TechCrunch — will retain a stake in the business.
The independent company will be led by Jager… Read More
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Pingpad Launches Mobile-Centric Tools For Group Collaboration
Ross Mayfield said that at his new startup Pingpad, “We’re trying to build the next great productivity app.” Mayfield previously worked as director of business development at LinkedIn and co-founded collaboration company Socialtext. He created Pingpad with his wife Leila Al-Shamari — in fact, they said the idea first came to them when they were planning for their… Read More
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CoverHound Raises $33.3M, Expands To Insurance Comparisons For Businesses
CoverHound, a site that lets people search for, compare and buy auto and property insurance both through its own site and Google’s insurance search, is today announcing that it has raised a further $33.3 million in funding as it adds one more large and strategic investor to its list of backers.
Insurance giant ACE Group is leading the Series C investment, and CEO Keith Moore tells… Read More
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IBM’s Watson Won’t Be Replacing Humans Any Time Soon
There is little doubt that IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence system is an incredible piece of technology, It’s capable of searching across vast repositories of unstructured digital data and returning answers remarkably quickly. But it won’t be replacing humans anytime soon, Dr. John Kelly who leads the Watson team at IBM told TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm today at… Read More
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NGINX Brings HTTP/2 Support To Its Commercial Release
NGINX, the well-funded and increasingly popular web and application server company, today announced that it now supports HTTP/2, the next generation of the HTTP standard, in its latest commercial release. The company, which already offered some HTTP/2 support in its free open source product, today released NGINX Plus R7 to its customers. While HTTP/2 support is definitely the highlight of… Read More
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New IBM Tool Wants To Bring Shadow IT Under Control
This morning IBM introduced a new tool called IBM Cloud Security Enforcer, whose purpose as you might guess is helping IT to root out unauthorized cloud apps inside organizations. The use of cloud apps outside of IT’s purview has sometimes called Shadow IT because the cloud enables users to provision their own tools. This tends to make IT admins a bit crazy, knowing that people are… Read More
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