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Bitcoin Daily: Lukka Launches TurboTax For Crypto, Crypto Exchange Bottle Pay Shuts Down

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The IRS hasn’t changed the guidelines since 2014, when the crypto market was younger and there weren’t as many people holding digital assets. Lukka was formed in 2014 and was formerly called Libra, and it’s one of the first crypto investor accounting firms. It mostly serves institutional investors.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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Additionally, LendingClub’s stock has lost 88 percent of its value since its 2014 IPO. All-digital, all-tech lending platforms that could deliver better user experiences and faster credit decisioning would become the new normal and take share from banks who were too big and cost-laden to keep — or catch — up.

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37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

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Working with the lab, the Eyevido team was able to conduct eye-tracking studies of Deutsche Bank’s retail banking websites to help improve the user experience for customers. Founded: 2014. Founded: 2014. Founded: 2014. FIS Global — FIS Innovation Lab. Using an algorithm, it recommends candidates to companies.

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Xero TaxTouch is Tinder for the Gig Economy’s Taxes

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In the Tinder-like user experience, freelancers separate their expenses by swiping right to file a business expense (see image on left) and swiping left to file a personal one. Xero most recently presented at FinDEVr San Francisco 2014 , where David Pollock, the company’s Head of U.S. million U.S. freelance workers.

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Facebook And Dating: It’s (Not) Complicated

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For millenia, people living in isolated villages and towns found it hard to meet anyone beyond the borders of the small communities in which they lived and worked, never mind their perfect soulmate. An online user profile with a relationship status feature not only eliminates that awkwardness but telegraphs who’s available and who’s not.

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

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Facebook’s $22B acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014 was (and still is) the largest private acquisition of a VC-backed company ever. The previous year, King’s 2014 IPO was hotly anticipated. Within two years, it had 97 million active daily users. Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC). Lending Club. Stemcentrx.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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2014 Second Update (9/24/2014). 2014 First Update (6/3/2014). Original 50 Startup Failure Post-Mortems (1/20/2014). Background: Pearl was founded in 2014 by three ex-Apple iPod engineers, and hired dozens of other ex-Apple employees. 2017 Third Update (10/31/17). 2017 Second Update (6/9/17). Around 4 p.m.,

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