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Prêt d’Union is about to launch in Italy as Younited Credit
French startup Prêt d’Union is one of the biggest fintech startups in its home country, but it has yet to expand its crowd-lending services outside of France. Prêt d’Union is about to go all in on European expansion, a source told me. The company could expand to Italy as soon as tomorro Read More
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The Hotaru compact shower can reuse the same five gallons of water for two weeks
The Hotaru compact shower holds five gallons of water and, according to the co-founders, a family of three can each take a five-minute, daily shower using the same five gallons of water for up to two weeks. SpoonRocket shuts down amongst on-demand apocalypse
SpoonRocket informed its investors it’s shutting down its on-demand pre-made meal delivery service after failing to raise the necessary capital to continue operations.
[Update: Co-founder Steven Hsiao confirmed SpoonRocket’s shut down. The company published a goodbye blog post saying it will transition customers to competitor Sprig, which is offering SpoonRocket users a $10… Read More
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Trainline buys Captain Train for up to $189 million
We hear a lot about how companies like Uber are transforming car-based transportation, but today comes news of another play in the sector, this time covering rail services. Trainline, a U.K.-based ticket service for railway and long-distance bus journeys, has acquired Captain Train, a Paris-based competitor that sells tickets for rail journeys on the continent, in what sources close to the… Read More
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Blockai uses the blockchain to help artists protect their intellectual property
While most of the discussions around blockchain have focused on its possible uses in finance, startup Blockai is looking at something different — helping artists, photographers and other creators register their work so that they can protect it from potential copyright infringement. CEO Nathan Lands is pitching this as an intermediate step between registering your work with the Library… Read More
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Square brings on the team behind Framed Data, a predictive analytics startup
Square is acquiring the team behind Framed Data, a predictive analytics service, and will be deploying the team of data scientists to its Square Capital team. Square tracks merchants’ transaction history through its services in order to better determine their eligibility for loans through Square Capital. There are certainly a lot of requirements around the analytics part of the… Read More
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Full Harvest wants to fix the big farm food waste problem at source
Modern farming has a huge problem with food waste, stemming from the mismatch between specific food buyer requirements vs Mother Nature delivering an unsaleable overabundance and/or producing knobbly fruit and veg that gets devalued on aesthetic grounds. But what happens when you throw a bit of technology into the mix? Read More
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Wherefor lets you search for vacations based on how much you want to spend
As a travel enthusiast, it was a problem Ryan Wenger had often encountered; how can a person search for a flight and hotel based on the amount of money they want to spend rather than by destination only? Setting out to solve this problem, Wenger quit his job as an attorney and founded Wherefor.com (now a team of eight). Read More
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Building a brand-new Internet
We do not possess the ability to read the future, and yet we can predict with a high level of certainty that we will see more major cybersecurity incidents in 2016 and 2017. The world’s cybersecurity capability is not able to advance in line with the growing vulnerabilities. Incremental security changes will not work. We need disruptive innovation. Read More
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New domain extensions have accumulated some pretty big numbers over the last couple of years. Collective registrations for the new GTLDs (generic top-level domains) have now surpassed 13 million, according to NTLD stats. This number is not small by any means.