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66 posts and columns on money
bKash Offers Mobile Banking for Bangladesh, a Country With Few Bank Accounts
“Fundamentally, it’s designed for poor people.”
Some More Inconvenient Truths (Including Spider Goats): Al Gore Talks About “The Future” at SXSW
Live from Austin, Texas, it’s the man who brought you the Internet. (Really, he did, along with others.)
Marissa’s Million-Dollar Bonus, YouTube’s Money Woes and Cellphone Unlocking: The AllThingsD Week in Review 3/03/13 — 3/09/13
The Top 10 stories of the week, in one convenient serving.
Exclusive: PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm
He’s back, and this time the well-known entrepreneur wants to give you a digital charge card.
News Byte
Social Sports Startup Bluefields Scores $1 Million
Bluefields, the social network that links sports players together for easier communication between teams and leagues, announced Friday it had raised a $1 million seed round. Contributors include Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s VegasTechFund, Facebook Europe executive Christian Hernandez, Elliot Loh (formerly of Yammer), and a number of other angels and seed fund contributors. The startup also exited its private beta on Friday, opening itself up to more potential users.Bill-Splitting Causing a Splitting Headache? Try These Apps.
Let’s face it: Splitting the bill can get holy awkward. But these apps might help make things less complicated.
News Byte
Social Media Marketing Firm HubSpot Adds $35 Million in Funding
HubSpot, which helps users with marketing via social media, has completed a new funding round of $35 million. The Cambridge, Mass., software company had previously raised about $65 million. The latest investment included previous investors Altimeter Capital and Cross Creek Capital, as well as, reportedly, Fidelity Investments. Earlier fundings have included General Catalyst Partners, Matrix Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Salesforce.com and Charles River Ventures. The new money will be used for international growth and acquisitions.Exclusive: Mayer Set to Get Yahoo’s Alibaba Billions in One Week (But Will Investors Get Some Back, Too?)
What will the Silicon Valley giant do with $4.5 billion?
Virtual Currency
If I had a bitcoin for every time someone asked me what a bitcoin was really worth, I have no idea how much money I’d have.
– Josh Greenman, via Twitter
No Guarantees
Enthusiasm is ahead of [the] tools. So, Kickstarter is a very minimal system in some ways. It’s not really built to police itself.
– Wharton business professor Ethan Mollick on the lack of regulation in crowdfunding