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• The Women Startup Challenge comes to Europe to smash the tech investment glass ceiling

  Women Who Tech is crossing the pond with its inaugural Woman Startup Challenge Europe competition, which takes place in London ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• Troubled blood-testing company Theranos earned precisely nothing in 2015 and 2016

  The rise and precipitous fall of biotech startup Theranos has been something to see. The company was famous for Edison - its platform which allowed physicians to run an entire battery of tests on a single sample of blood. Except it didn't work. Not really. The fundamental failings ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• Twitch ‘Cheering’ raises $5.9M for streamers

  Thanks to Twitch’s new community support system, streamers earned millions of dollars in additional revenue last year. According to Twitch's Year in Review mini-game, viewers gave 590 million "Bits" to streamers last year. Bits and "Cheering" are part of Twitch's micro-transaction ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• PayPal takes aim at banks with new acquisition

  Soon it may not be necessary to have a bank account to make payments with PayPal. PayPal and TIO Networks announced today that PayPal would be acquiring TIO for $233 million. With this acquisition, PayPal accesses TIO's 14 million customer accounts, and a network of agents, including ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Twitter is worth less than its Chinese clone. Again

  Weibo is China's biggest microblogging service. And now it's worth more than Twitter itself.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Investors Snap up the wrong stock

  In a case of mistaken identity, potential investors in Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, just caused a windfall for a tiny start-up instead. When Snap made the details of their IPO public on Feb 2, it caused a flurry of excitement. Potential investors began snatching up shares ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• This Google X engineer's open-source bot turns Trump’s tweets into hard cash

  The bot reacts to Trumps tweets and buys stock accordingly, making a 59% return on investment, that was donated to ACLU and ...

  • Alejandro Tauber

• Banking while browsing: The e-commerce solution

  The banking world revolves around being digital. Here’s how they can keep up with consumer demand while creating a more ...

  • Ritika Puri

• Snapchat parent company files for huge IPO at last

  Snap Inc, parent company to Snapchat, has finally filed for its long-rumored IPO. Although it's not specifying any amounts ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Apple just broke its iPhone sales record - again

  For all we press like to chant doom and gloom around Apple and its seeming lack of innovation the past few years, the company ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Man buys house with Bitcoin, lucks into a $1.3M profit

  Bitcoin has been the star of numerous horror stories about wasted fortunes, but the cryptocurrency helped at least one man ...

  • Mix

• Apple sues Qualcomm for 1 billion, citing shady business practices

  Apple is onto its next big legal feud: Qualcomm. The company today filed a $1 billion lawsuit against giant the chipmaker, ...

  • Napier Lopez