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Carsharing Startup Getaround Raises $140M In Series E

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Founded in 2009 by Elliot Kroo, Jessica Scorpio and Sam Zaid, the company gives users the ability to rent their personal vehicles to others for set periods of time. . He added that Election Day on Nov. Additional new and existing investors include Reinvent Capital, Menlo Ventures, SoftBank, Braemar Energy Ventures and others.

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Ex-Expedia Exec Raises Funds For Secretive New Startup

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According to reports by GeekWire on Wednesday (Nov. In 2009, he launched Mooi, a company that aimed to offer a service for users to connect their calendars and share content and news within a private network. A former executive from Expedia has secured funding for his new startup, though the details on the new project are scarce.

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Alibaba’s Singles’ Day Will Double As Economic Barometer

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billion people will mark Singles’ Day – the country’s exponentially larger answer to America’s Black Friday or Prime Day events – on Wednesday (Nov. The unofficial holiday falls on Nov. Fan said the companies also added a “new sales window” from Nov. 3 this year, ahead of the main Nov. 11 each year.

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MoneyGram To Settle With FTC For $125M

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Thursday (Nov. MoneyGram also settled with the FTC — which had said MoneyGram violated a 2009 order that stipulated the company needed to cut down on fraud. The investigation leading up to that settlement stretched from 2003 to 2009 and focused on agents in the U.S. and Canada.

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Job Gains From Startups At Lowest Level In Twenty Years

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Since 2009, when a recovery in the U.S. WSJ also pointed to data from the Business Employment Dynamics report, which was released Wednesday (Nov. During the 1990s, the rate stood between 1.6 percent and 2 percent. economy began, job gains have stayed around 1.1 percent and 1.3

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Cardtronics Expands Relationship With Carnival Cruise

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Cardtronics, the ATM network operator, announced Monday (Nov. Cardtronics has had an alliance with Carnival since 2009. 21) it is expanding its ATM services relationship with Carnival Cruise Line in which it is becoming the exclusive provider of ATM services to guests and crew on board all of Carnival’s entire fleet of ships.

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Manufacturing Momentum Predicts Consumer Spend Recovery

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To that end, the latest data from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) showed on Monday (Nov. The ISM said that the latest reading was the second-largest positive change since May of 2009. Seems like the rebound has legs. 2) that the U.S. Consensus had pegged the PMI (purchasing manager’s index) to come in at 56.