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OfferUp And Building A Better Goods Swap

PYMNTS

There was, of course, the internet’s go-to solution for unwanted things — Craigslist — but Huzar was looking for a cleaner user experience and a process that was a bit more organized. He thought he could probably build that experience, then spent about five years trying to convince himself not to.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

IBM’s management team described its blockchain developer toolkit as another way to make it easier for innovators to “stand up” blockchain networks. In 2011, Buffett made a $10 billion investment in the company in support of then-new CEO Ginni Rometty’s turnaround plans. Take Goldman Sachs and Marcus.

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Xero Partners with Expensify for In-House Expense Management

Fintech Labs Insights

Xero’s decision to use Expensify’s software for in-house receipt and expense management is the latest product of the strategic partnership the two fintechs announced last year. CPA.com, the business wing of global leading accounting body, AICPA, has named Expensify its preferred partner for receipt and expense management.

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Lessons From The Failed Chatbot Revolution — And 5 Industries Where The Tech Is Making A Comeback

CB Insights

Personal finance: Using chatbots to help people manage their spending. Slack launched its own $80M chatbot fund, partnering with leading VCs including Spark Capital, Index Ventures, Accel, KPCB, Social Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz. Managing money is a complex undertaking. Table of Contents. Get the full report.

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37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

CB Insights

Key people: Annie Ye, Head of DAX, Senior Vice President, DBS Innovation Group; Neal Cross, Managing Director & Chief Innovation Officer. DAX has also worked with the DBS Innovation Group (DiG) on Hack2hire, a hackathon that allows participants to code their way into a career at DBS, and the UNI.CORN management internship program.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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Why Peer-to-Peer models struggle against oligopoly

Lex Sokolin

Initially, the naive reaction of the labels was to build digital rights management into music players, and song files, and any teenager onto whom they could tattoo the letter of the law. The media industry has been able to deploy a business model that uses the Internet to deliver a better user experience when bundled with the law.

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