Seed-giant Monsanto is investing in a marketplace startup hoping it make it easier for farmers and grain buyers to connect. The FarmLead mobile platform allows both sides to post offers and negotiate, alleviating the need for farmers to call around to buyers and brokers looking for the best price.
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Spiral House try their hand at a Nordic mythology cooperative quest with mixed results.
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Apple’s new AR tech needs to be more than just a few forgettable features.
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Digital advertising is plagued with fraud, from phantom ads that no one ever sees to injecting malware-laden ads into websites. That’s what new self-funded Los Angeles startup MetaX aims to solve using blockchain, the distributed ledger technology behind bitcoin.
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Security teams are either understaffed or under-skilled, and so are falling further behind while our adversaries are getting more automated, more mature and more sophisticated. What’s next?
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Bobby Lee, CEO of BTCC, talks about whether Chinese people are using bitcoin to evade capital controls, how he came up with the idea for no-fee trading, and how trading in China has changed since a government crackdown in January.
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RealtyMogul, founded by Jilliene Helman, was one of the first crowdfunding platforms to launch in 2013. Since launching the company has funded more than $260M in real estate transactions and raised more than $45M from notable VCs. We met for a talk about the future of real estate investing:
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Have we begun to overvalue freelancing? Could freelancing be in a bubble that’s about to burst?
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The Department of Homeland Security has banned devices larger than a cellphone from handheld luggage for travellers coming to the U.S. from 10 airports.
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As more details emerge about the ‘electronics ban’ imposed by the U.S. on a raft of Middle East airlines, it increasingly looks like a crude attempt to damage those airlines and dissuade people from traveling from the Middle East to the U.S.
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