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Users say Robinhood is down as stocks soar

Users are reporting that trading platform Robinhood is down on a day that’s seen stock markets soar.Some users said Etrade was also experiencing problems. A spokesperson for Etrade said its plat

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Vista Equity Partners to invest $1.5B in Indian telecom giant Reliance Jio Platforms

Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners said on Friday it would invest $1.5 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms, days after Facebook and Silver Lake also made bets on the Indian telecom giant.The pl

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Saving, not spending, is the new hotness in fintech

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Yesterday news broke that Robinhood is on the hunt for new capital at a roughly fl

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Insight Partners sells security firm Checkmarx to Hellman & Friedman for $1.15B

Checkmarx, an Israeli security company acquired in 2015 by private equity firm Insight Partners with an $84 million investment, was sold today to Hellman Friedman, another private equity firm at a val

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Saudi Aramco share price sharply drops below its initial public offering

Saudi Oil Company (Aramco) share price has dropped below its initial public offering, Arab News reported on Monday. The share tumbled 9.1 percent, its sharpest percenta

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This Week in Apps: Coronavirus impacts app stores, Facebook sues mobile SDK maker, Apple kicks out a cloud gaming app

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.The app industry is as hot as ever, wit

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A boom, a bust, a reckoning, a race: Four takes on today’s startup market

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Today let’s try to figure out where the startup and private markets stand, a

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What the $13B E-Trade deal says about Robinhood’s valuation

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Today we’re living up to the introduction of this daily column by digging in

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Eight Sleep CEO says his startup is more than a mattress company

Matteo Franceschetti, CEO of Eight Sleep, would prefer that you don’t call his startup a mattress company.Eight Sleep does sell mattresses, albeit smart ones packed with sensors and temperature

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Starling Bank raises another £60M from existing backers

Starling Bank, the U.K.-based challenger bank founded by banking veteran Anne Boden, has raised another £60 million from its existing investors, Merian Global Investors and Harry McPike’s JTC.Th

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In a gloomy portent for 2020 debuts, Casper lowers its IPO price range

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Casper, the well-known D2C mattress company, has lowered its IPO price range in a

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Does Asana’s planned direct listing reveal the company’s true value?

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Asana, a well-known workplace productivity company, announced yesterday it has fil

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First thoughts on One Medical’s IPO pricing

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Today we’re digging into One Medical’s IPO pricing, especially as it

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One Medical targets IPO valuation of up to $2B as we unpack its Q4 results

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Today we’re digging into One Medical’s updated IPO filing released thi

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The $100M ARR club welcomes four new members

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Today we’re adding a few names to the $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR)

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This Week in Apps: App trends from 2019, Pinterest tops Snapchat, Disney+ hits No. 1 in Q4

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.The app industry is as hot as ever with

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Formlabs CEO on the state of 3D printing and its remaining challenges

3D printing isn’t the buzzy, hype-tastic topic it was just a few years ago — at least not with consumers. 3D printing news out of CES last week seemed considerably quieter than years prior; the