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Leap Finance raises $5.5M to democratize financing for foreign-bound Indian students
Tens of thousands of Indians move to the United States to pursue higher education each year. But like many others…
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Equity Shot: What’s Elliott Management and why is it coming after Twitter and SoftBank?
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. After a long…
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Target reports mixed fourth quarter, but notes same-day services grew more than 90% in 2019
Target today reported mixed fourth-quarter results, but promising growth on the e-commerce side of its business. The retailer’s earnings per…
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Looking for liquidity and cash, a16z-backed Accolade files for IPO
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.…
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Down again, Robinhood will offer ‘case-by-case’ compensation for its outage on the day markets gained $1.1 trillion
As the company experiences its second day of outages, Robinhood, the popular trading app with a purported 10-million-strong user base and…
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Stack Overflow expands its Teams service with new integrations
Most developers think of Stack Overflow as a question and answer site for their programming questions. But over the last…
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FairShake automates the individual arbitration process
Years ago, Teel Lidow arrived at the airport to take a standard, eight-hour flight from Santiago, Chile to New York…
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SmartNews’ local news feature now covers more than 6,000 U.S. cities
SmartNews, the news aggregation app that hit a unicorn valuation last year, has spent its time growing its local news…
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Amazon makes its same-day delivery service faster in select U.S. cities
Amazon this morning announced another step it’s taken to speed up same-day deliveries. The company has installed what it’s calling…
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Brooklinen raises $50M to open more stores and expand internationally
Brooklinen, a startup that sells bedding and other home goods online, has raised $50 million in new funding from growth…
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