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From Instagram To Slack: 9 Successful Startup Pivots

CB Insights

After a brief launch in 2011, Glitch was returned to beta and by 2012, Butterfield declared the concept wasn’t viable. It was originally a dating site that allowed singles to upload videos of themselves talking about what they wanted in a partner. His company, Tiny Speck, began developing a game called Glitch.

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Fastest-Growing Asia Pacific Fintechs, According to the Financial Times (2025)

Fintech News

Established in 2015, Lendbox is a platform designed with lenders in mind, dedicated to delivering stable, high-quality, and consistent returns. Using a mobility-led approach via the Svamaan App, it streamlines loan origination, management, and collections. Lendbox Absolute growth rate: 25703.14% Revenue (2023): $51.13

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Gwynnie Bee Offers Subscription Services For Traditional Retailers

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According to news from TechCrunch , the platform — called “CaaStle” (Clothing as a Service) — handles all aspects of the subscription business, including the website, databases, cleaning, returns, packing, shipping and more. With CaaStle, retailers send Gwynnie Bee their inventory, and the platform takes care of everything else.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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LCA and Laplanche, along with former CFO Dolan, were also charged with improperly adjusting fund returns. Investors have returned to the platform in larger numbers, but loan volume and revenue have seen sluggish growth until very recently. The DOJ Finding. Those effects, however, were short-lived. lending marketplace.

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3 Ways Fintechs are Helping Financial Institutions Fight Fraud

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The new capability provides a way to validate return consumers online in less than two seconds with just a selfie. ” A Finovate alum since 2011, Experian most recently demoed its technology at FinovateFall in New York in 2018. Here are a trio of stories highlighting the latest efforts by fintechs to combat financial crime.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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Date: October 2011. With Apotheker fired in 2011 for a slew of missteps that had contributed to the company’s massive losses, nothing ever came of the acquisition. Date: August 15, 2011. Credit Suisse paid nearly three times the book value for DLJ, and got little in return. HP and Autonomy. Price: $11.1B.

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Upgrading The Sharing Economy With Disbursement Tools

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As a result, millions of Americans return some $90 billion worth of unwanted holiday merchandise every year. Thanks to the growth of the sharing economy, though, the hassle of returning presents might soon be a thing of past. That’s an opportunity on which peer-to-peer marketplace Rentah is betting. Occupying the sharing economy.

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