Marqeta, a payments platform that rewards users with additional in-store credit for prepaying online, announced today that it has raised a $14 million Series B round of funding. Existing investors Greylock IL, an affiliate fund of Greylock Partners, and Granite Ventures led the round alongside new participant Commerce Ventures and a number of other unnamed angel…
Buy AP Photo Reprints CHICAGO (AP) — Treating breast cancer almost always involves surgery, and for years the choice was just having the lump or the whole breast removed. Now, new approaches are dramatically changing the way these operations are done, giving women more options, faster treatment, smaller scars, fewer long-term side effects and better…
Aaron Greenspan, the founder of Think Computer, creator of the FaceCash mobile payment system and (according to him) co-founder of Facebook, has been giving Mark Zuckerberg headaches for many years now, and the software entrepreneur is not resting easy. According to documents filed on 6 May, Think Computer has initiated a lawsuit against a slew…
This frame grab taken from video provided by Roxana and Carlos Guzman shows a Limo on fire Saturday, May 4, 2013, on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge in San Francisco. Five dead female bodies were found pressed up against the partition behind the driver, where they apparently tried to escape the smoke and fire that kept…
Square co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey is auctioning a chance for a person and seven of their friends to have lunch with him. Dorsey has partnered with BUILD, an organization fostering education in the entrepreneur space, to make this initiative happen. Bidding is open to anyone and starts at $5,000. BUILD was founded in 1999…
Firefighters from Glendale, Calif., and Pasadena, Calif., stand watch as bulldozers clear a firebreak near a wildfire burning along a hillside near homes in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Thursday, May 2, 2013. A Ventura County Fire Department spokeswoman said the blaze that broke out Thursday morning near Camarillo and Thousand Oaks, 50 miles west of Los…
DGAP-News: SolarWorld AG / Key word(s): Miscellaneous SolarWorld successfully sells large-scale solar projects with overall capacity of 46 megawatts 18.04.2013 / 18:09 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 18.04.2013 Corporate News SolarWorld AG (Securities Code No.: WKN 510 840) (International Securities Identification Number: ISIN DE0005108401) SolarWorld successfully sells large-scale solar projects with overall capacity of 46 megawatts SolarWorld AG constructed…
Tazi Tiara of Tampa, Florida, makes her mom, Lisa Fink, very proud. She's getting married this summer in this $1,000 stunner by Severine Vicknair of Pink Punk Puppy Designs.Lucas of Newark, New Jersey, shows off one of his winter coats. Lucas nearly died as a puppy, but student Michelle Soares paid the $3,000 vet bill…
Das Weltraumteleskop „Kepler“ der US-Raumfahrtbehörde NASA beobachtete ein Sternenpaar, in dem die Gravitation des schwereren Partners den Raum genau im von der ART vorhergesagten Ausmaß krümmt und dabei das vom anderen Partner ausgesandte Licht verstärkt.Bei dem schwereren Partner handelt es sich um einen „Weißen Zwerg“. So nennen die Astronomen alte, verlöschende Sterne, in denen sich…
The Obvious Corporation, the startup incubator and investment vehicle headed up by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and former Twitter exec Jason Goldman that has become an umbrella company of sorts to a number of buzzy startups including Medium, Branch, and Lift, is shifting gears, according to a blog post written today by Williams.…
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