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Funding daily: A busy day for startup investments
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Isis adds American Express cards — now you really can’t leave home without it
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Mixpanel serves up unique mobile analytics, nabs $10M investment
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NextGen Conference May 19th – new batch of tickets released!
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Casualty #1: Yahoo director Patti Hart steps down after CEO apologizes (updated)
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Andreessen Horowitz bets big on Belly, an offbeat consumer-loyalty startup
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The Diablo III auction house is not the end of the world
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Hey you guys, MasterCard has a digital strategy too: PayPass Wallet Services
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Come Sail away with Verifone’s new payment platform — yet another Square wannabe
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Gumroad raises $7 million to help people sell anything they create
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Shareholder demanding Yahoo fire CEO after education scandal
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Yahoo board to review CEO’s resume padding — should he be fired? (poll)
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eBay’s new East Coast HQ boosts New York tech scene
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WePay hopes to give PayPal a run for its money with new $10M investment
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Boku locks mobile billing deals with all four major U.S. carriers
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Replay Games raises more than $600K on Kickstarter for Leisure Suit Larry game
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Foursquare forges ahead with ad platform as biz dev exec exits
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How design will make or break your mobile company in 2012
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PlaySay gamifies language learning with speech recognition app
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Square now gives merchants next-day access to cash, annual payment processing hits $5B
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Dylan’s Desk: A spaceship is the perfect gift for the billionaire who has everything
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Funding daily: Halting the hackers and online dating meets job searching
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Twitter commerce platform Chirpify raises $1.3M from social media execs
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5 tech deals that need to happen
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eBay’s stock hits a five year high after a stellar first quarter report
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Funding Daily: a possible Square investment and fighting cyber threats
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Square may be seeking new round at whopping $4B valuation (updated)
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Transferwise undercuts the banks with crowdsourced currency exchange
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News Blips: Wasteland 2 Kickstarter raises over $3 million, Halo 4 release date announced, and Tekken series producer on DLC
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Notion Capital raises $100 million for Euro cloud companies
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35 Israeli startups — making virtual SIM cards, emotion-sensing bracelets, and more
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E-commerce investments have popped sharply up in recent years (analysis)
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They’re in! Meet the DEMO Spring 2012 Speakers
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Yahoo’s new commander in chief gives details on the company’s restructuring
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What we learned from VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit: history repeats itself in mobile
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Royal Canadian Mint offers $50,000 in gold for the digital currency of the future
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Game publisher Electronic Arts is voted the “Worst Company in America”
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PayPal announces new pricing model, creates suite of mobile products
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