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Zenefits extends its payroll service to Florida, Texas, and Washington
Equinix to buy 24 data center sites from Verizon in $3.6 billion deal
GoDaddy acquires rival Host Europe Group for $1.79 billion to grow its global footprint
Partech Ventures closes $108 million fund for 80 seed-stage startups in the U.S. and Europe
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MoneyLion raises $22.5 million to change how you spend your money with AI
Tech billionaires award $25 million in Breakthrough prizes to top scientists
Data center hardware startup Datrium raises $55 million
Portugal looks to its fledgling tech ecosystem to reboot a struggling economy after its first Web Summit
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Airbnb and New York City settle rental law lawsuit
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PlayFab raises $3.1 million for back-end service for game developers
Mobile security startup Seworks raises $8.2 million from SoftBank, Qualcomm, Samsung, others
GoDaddy launches new Pro service letting devs manage multiple WordPress sites from a single dashboard
Y Combinator-backed employee training startup WorkRamp raises $1.8 million
New Nokia Android phones and tablets are coming as 10-year licensing deal is finalized
Opendoor raises $210 million to buy and sell even more homes
On-demand ride service Gett receives $100 million loan from Russia’s Sberbank
Uber defends business model as a digital service before Europe’s highest court
Trump’s Secretary of Transportation could help Uber and Lyft
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BMW increases size of venture capital fund by 400% to $530 million
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Banks reportedly seek to invest $59 million in blockchain startup R3
Stripe now worth more than $9 billion after raising $150 million
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Scottish unicorns Skyscanner and FanDuel reveal their exit plans 1 week apart
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