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		<title>TransferWise raises $58M in Andreessen Horowitz-led Series C</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/26/transferwise-raises-58m-in-andreessen-horowitz-led-series-c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London-based online currency transfer outfit TransferWise has raised a $58 million Series C round that was led by Andreessen Horowitz. This follows a $25 million Series B round just seven months&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Y Combinator giving away its trade secrets for free in a YouTube class?</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/09/16/why-is-y-combinator-giving-away-its-trade-secrets-for-free-in-a-youtube-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carmel DeAmicis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new "How to start a startup class" from YC's Sam Altman features the likes of Marissa Mayer and Ron Conway. This may become the gold standard course for wannabe entrepreneurs.]]></description>
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		<title>What VC legend Peter Thiel thinks of Edward Snowden, net neutrality and bitcoin</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/09/11/what-vc-legend-peter-thiel-thinks-of-edward-snowden-net-neutrality-and-bitcoin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathew Ingram]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legendary Silicon Valley venture investor Peter Thiel did a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session on Thursday in which he talked about Edward Snowden and the NSA, net neutrality and Bitcoin, among&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Thiel sends his first ever tweet</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/09/08/peter-thiel-sends-his-first-ever-tweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carmel DeAmicis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Thiel gets over his long-time fear of Twitter, minutes before taking the TechCrunch Disrupt stage.]]></description>
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		<title>Branson and Thiel join in $25M Series B round for forex upstart TransferWise</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/06/09/branson-and-thiel-join-in-25m-series-b-round-for-forex-upstart-transferwise/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/06/09/branson-and-thiel-join-in-25m-series-b-round-for-forex-upstart-transferwise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've covered TransferWise quite a few times – along with one or two rivals such as CurrencyFair, the London-based financial technology startup offers a genuinely disruptive foreign exchange service that significantly&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Box can&#8217;t IPO, so now what?</title>
		<link>http://research.gigaom.com/2014/05/box-cant-ipo-so-now-what/</link>
		<comments>http://research.gigaom.com/2014/05/box-cant-ipo-so-now-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 10:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stowe Boyd]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Danny Crichton has opened a can of worms by pointing out that Box and Square are a/ highly valued companies that b/ are finding the spring of 2014 a very difficult&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Stripe bolsters its mobile payments cred with $80M funding round</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/01/23/stripe-bolsters-its-mobile-payments-cred-with-80m-funding-round/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/01/23/stripe-bolsters-its-mobile-payments-cred-with-80m-funding-round/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The payments startup has become a hot item since PayPal/eBay's $800 million acquisition of competitor Braintree. As e-commerce increasingly shifts to mobile payments and collaborative consumption, Stripe's developer-friendly payments platform holds&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Former Netflix CFO joins mobile payments startup Clinkle</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2013/10/22/former-netflix-cfo-joins-mobile-payments-startup-clinkle/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2013/10/22/former-netflix-cfo-joins-mobile-payments-startup-clinkle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clinkle claims it will invigorate the lackluster mobile payments market, though it still won't tell us how. Former Netflix finance honcho Barry McCarthy, however, is confident enough in Clinkle's plan to&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Ebook subscription startup Oyster expands to iPad and opens to all; some stats from Scribd</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2013/10/16/ebook-subscriptions-oyster-expands-to-ipad-and-opens-to-all-some-stats-from-scribd/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2013/10/16/ebook-subscriptions-oyster-expands-to-ipad-and-opens-to-all-some-stats-from-scribd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Owen]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Netflix for ebooks" Oyster launched on iPad and opened up to everybody Wednesday; previously it had only been available on iPhone. Rival service Scribd also released some stats showing that most&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Now handling over £1M a day, Thiel-backed TransferWise inches further onto PayPal&#8217;s turf</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2013/10/15/now-handling-over-1m-a-day-thiel-backed-transferwise-inches-further-onto-paypals-turf/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2013/10/15/now-handling-over-1m-a-day-thiel-backed-transferwise-inches-further-onto-paypals-turf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The company has now facilitated over $400 million in international money transfers. And with new features such as a mobile app, payments to email addresses and an embeddable payment button, TransferWise&#8230;]]></description>
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