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How does Lending Club make money?

Lending Club is on a roll. The company announced yesterday that it’s now offering business loans of up to $100,000 Read More

Funding roundup – week ending 3/21/14

Seed stage Meducation, a medical education network aimed at medical students and professionals, completed a $1 million seed funding round from Technology Strategy Read More

LinkedIn’s Weiner dethrones Zuckerberg for top CEO spot

(Updated to reflect comment from Glassdoor) It's hard to be the king... err, I mean CEO. Even if your company Read More

Reed Hastings just as irritated with Comcast as you are

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is just as irritated over Netflix’s pay out to Comcast to get better streaming quality as Read More

Turkey becomes the latest country to ban Twitter

Authoritarian regimes hate Twitter. Hate it, hate it, hate it. It gives their people a way to openly express themselves and communicate Read More

Toy rental service Pley bags $6.75M

There are okay ideas, good ideas, and then why-in-God’s-name-hasn’t-this-been-done-yet ideas. Pley (formerly Pleygo) falls in the latter category. The startup Read More

Airbnb seeking funding at reported $10B valuation

Honestly, the idea behind Airbnb makes me really uncomfortable. I barely like having people I know in my place when I'm there, Read More

Beyond the lemonade stand

While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation, the question we get is, Read More

Lending Club now offering business loans

Lending Club CEO Renaud LaPlanche has been open about Lending Club’s plans to expand into home loans, business loans, and Read More

Alibaba invests $215M in mobile messaging app Tango

It was only a week or so ago that Chinese Internet giant Tencent, the company behind WeChat, a.k.a. the country's Read More

Chinese messaging giant WeChat hits 355M MAUs

WhatApp's entire selling point was its huge customer base, 450 million at the time of the announcement of its sale Read More

Wickr begins selling security tech to app developers

In the wake of the NSA scandal, self-destructing messages services like Services like Wickr and Snapchat have become more and more Read More

Jesse Jackson to crash HP’s shareholders meeting

An oft-discussed topic in the world of tech is the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley—specifically the dearth of women, Read More

How Will 3D Printing Change Our Lives?

It remains to be seen precisely how 3D printing technology will transform our lives, but one major player in the Read More

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