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March 15, 2016
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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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