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Airbnb Challenger WhyHotel Scores $20M For Luxury Room Rentals

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The funding round was led by Harbert Growth Partners, with other participants including Highland Capital Partners, Camber Creek, Working Lab Capital, Geolo Capital, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and former Bain Capital Partners MD Mark Nunnelly all participated in the round.

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Brink’s Closes $860M Deal For Majority Stake In G4S

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Brink’s, which is based in Richmond, Virginia, said the transaction adds 14 new markets to its realm: the Netherlands, Malaysia , Romania, Belgium, Ireland, Kuwait, the Czech Republic, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Cyprus, Indonesia, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. and several smaller markets.

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Walgreens And Wing Team Up For Drone Delivery

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Wing is the first drone operator to be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration as an air carrier, and the drone delivery service will be available to eligible residents in Christiansburg, Virginia, starting in October. . Department of Transportation’s Integration Pilot Program, starting in 2016.

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PayPal Veteran Hired As BlueVine CCO

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Brodigan holds a BA in Economics and Business from the Virginia Military Institute and lives in Danville, California. In April, BlueVine partnered with government procurement solutions portal GovQuote to connect vendors with working capital solutions. Growing up, my father owned and led several small businesses.

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U.S. Regulations to Consider When Managing a Cryptocurrency Fund

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There is good reason for this shift in view; according to Marc Bernegger, co-founder of crypto fund AltAlpha Digital, “after last year’s explosion of crypto hedge funds around the globe, there are now over 400 active funds, excluding those focused on venture capital.”

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Federal Regulators Visited Amazon Facility To Search Laptops

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Although the investigation came around at the same time a Seattle woman hacked a database of credit-card issuer Capital One Financial that was stored on the eCommerce giant’s cloud server, examiners were reportedly not aware of the breach when they visited Amazon’s Virginia facility.

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Yes, Virginia, There Are Women Leaders In Fintech

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Engle has more than 30 years of experience at AT&T, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital, DTCC and Bank of America. Pendo Systems has announced that Ruth Wandhöfer, global head of regulatory and market strategy at Citi, has joined its board. in blockchain/distributed ledger technology in relation to financial market infrastructures.