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  Yonhap News Agency

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  President Yoon Suk-yeol was enraged after learning that police took no action even after receiving 11 calls about the dangerous level of crowds on …

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  Startup investing is no longer just for rich

  CNN Business - Sara Ashley O'Brien

  Soon you will be able to invest in a startup even if you're not rich. On Friday, the SEC finalized rules to give regular people the opportunity to make investments normally limited to big-money types. At the center of the change is the JOBS Act, which passed three and half years ago with bipartisan …

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  Nasdaq makes a play for startups

  CNN Business - Sara Ashley O'Brien

  Nasdaq is making a bid to get closer to the Ubers of the world. On Thursday, Nasdaq acquired a firm called SecondMarket Solutions, an exchange that enables current and former employees of private companies to sell stocks to accredited investors. SecondMarket clients like Survey Monkey and Sonos allow …

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  A look inside Turkey’s startup scene

  VentureBeat - Cankut Durgun, Aslanoba Capital

  [Editor’s note: This story was scheduled for publication before we had news of the bombings in Turkey today. Our condolences go out to those in mourning.] I started working at Aslanoba Capital, Turkey’s most active internet investor, more than two years ago, and we’ve invested over $60 million in …

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  Think You're A Risk-Taker? Try Marrying An Entrepreneur

  Forbes - Susan Reid

  I hurried down the stairs to answer the doorbell, as quickly as I could, given that I was nine months pregnant. As I opened the door, I was met by a man looking sheepishly at my heaving stomach. “I’m the bailiff with a letter for Mr. Crawford” he said. Having not the slightest clue what a bailiff …

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  Meet Pocket Programming: An app for learning to code via your Android phone

  VentureBeat - The Bridge

  (By Yuki Sato, The Bridge) – Japanese app developer duo Ffab0 (pronounced “fab zero”) recently launched the English edition of a mobile learning app focused on Ruby and Ruby on Rails, called Pocket Programming. Prior to this, the team released the Japanese version of the app in late August. I had a …