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Freetrade launches ‘zero-fee’ investment app
It is four months since fintech ‘unicorn’ Revolut announced its intention to add commission-free trading to its banking app, in…
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Lingokids scores $6M Series A for its English language learning platform
Lingokids, the Madrid, Spain-based (and U.S. incorporated) edtech startup that helps children to learn a second language, has bolstered its…
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Carpooling service Klaxit partners with Uber for last-minute changes
French startup Klaxit connects drivers with riders so that you don’t have to take your car to work every day.…
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Lending platform Funding Circle raises £300M in London IPO, valuing it at £1.5B, as investor interest cools
Another fintech startup has made the leap into publicly-traded company: Funding Circle, the peer-to-peer lending platform for small and medium…
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The Zennström manifesto
At almost 86 degrees Fahrenheit, London is enduring a mini heat wave by traditional British summer standards. News reports at…
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Soviet camera company Zenit is reborn!
If you’re familiar with 20th century Soviet camera clones you’ll probably be familiar with Zenit. Created by Krasnogorsky Zavod, the…
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France records big jump in privacy complaints since GDPR
Another European data protection agency has reported a sharp rise in the numbers of complaints since the EU updated its…
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Snyk raises $22M on a $100M valuation to detect security vulnerabilities in open source code
Open source software is now a $14 billion+ market and growing fast, in use in one way or another in…
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