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Understanding Airbnb’s new, stubborn lack of profits
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.…
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ePharmacy Ro launches doc-approved WebMD rival Health Guide
‘Whatever your symptom, WebMD says you have cancer.’ It’s a long-running joke that underscores the distrust of perhaps the top…
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Trends
Headspace raises $93 million in equity and debt as it pursues clinical validation for mindfulness
Headspace, the Los Angeles-based mindfulness and meditation company locked in a bitter competitive struggle with Calm for leadership in the…
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Trends
Spotify is giving songwriters their own pages and playlists
Spotify is launching a new feature called songwriter pages, which allows songwriters to showcase a list of the songs they’ve…
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STARTUPS
Taking a page from SimCity, UrbanFootprint pitches new tools for urban development
For decades, the best urban planning simulation wasn’t a simulation for urban planners at all, but the wildly popular city…
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Finance
Reset Button is approaching student debt from a new angle
Student loan debt in the U.S. totals $1.5 trillion, and more than 44 million Americans have outstanding student loan debt.…
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Trends
Google’s Gboard introduces Emoji Kitchen, a tool to mash up emojis to use as stickers
If you’re ever felt like there just weren’t enough emoji options to express how you’re feeling, a new addition to…
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STARTUPS
Orbital debris startup Astroscale chosen by JAXA for its first space junk removal mission
Japanese orbital debris removal technology startup Astroscale is going to be working with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on…
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Finance
Nova Credit banks $50M to expand its service sourcing credit reports across borders
Around 70% of the world’s population now has some form of bank account or — thanks to mobile phones —…
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