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Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Mining Startup Lands $50M From Big-Name VCs; Bitcoin Transaction Fees Have Now Exceeded $1B

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San Francisco-based Layer1 announced that it has raised $50 million from investors including Peter Thiel, Shasta Ventures, and various crypto industry leaders. The more our team utilizes digital currency, the better our customer user experience will be.

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Tempo And The Home Fitness Gold Rush

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The San Francisco company just raised $60 million in venture funding that the firm plans to use to boost production to meet surging demand as consumer fitness relocates from gyms to people’s living rooms. She said working out had been about community, and her firm believed a physical space was the best place to build that.

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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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FinDEVr Live: Thomson Reuters Shows How to Use its Web APIs to Leverage Analytics

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Thomson Reuters connects and powers the global financial community through our open and trusted news, data, analytics and insight, tools and applications, trading capabilities, and infrastructure and services – enabling discovery, liquidity and compliance. Eikon Application Platform / Partner Program / Professional Developer Community.

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Uber of X: Kango is The Uber of Ride Share For Kids

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We experimented and tested each release with beta customers, got some initial traction, and networked in the startup community. Soon thereafter, based on user feedback, we decided to focus on paid rides and care from pre-screened drivers and sitters that we would provide for a fee. They were real troopers!

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A First Look at What’s Coming to the FinDEVr Stage this October

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The event will take place October 6 & 7 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco ( check out our event brochure ). Here’s a preview of what you’ll experience at the event. Fidor Bank introduced community banking five years ago. It embraced Bitcoin and Ripple two years ago.

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AppsFlyer Unifies Mobile Marketing Attribution, Sees $56M Series C

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Additionally, the volume of SDKs required to effectively attribute mobile app marketing efforts occasionally caused slowdowns in user experiences. It validated that the investment community wants to participate in this particular market,” Bhagwan said.

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