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  Scout.fm turns podcasts into personalized talk radio

  TechCrunch - Sarah Perez

  Scout.fm wants to change the way people listen to podcasts. Instead of scouring through the over 500,000 shows in your current podcast app, this startup’s new curated podcast service will just ask you a few questions to find out what you like, then create a podcast station customized to you. The …

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  Neighborhood Goods raises $5.75M to reinvent the department store

  TechCrunch - Anthony Ha

  Neighborhood Goods, a startup rethinking the traditional department store experience, is announcing that it has raised $5.75 million in seed funding. CEO Matt Alexander (who co-founded the company with Mark Masinter) told me via email that while the largely static layout and offerings of a …

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  PayPal and Singapore’s Temasek invest $125M in Indian payment startup Pine Labs

  TechCrunch - Jon Russell

  Fresh from agreeing its largest acquisition to date with a deal to buy European payment firm iZettle for $2.2 billion, PayPal is on the investment hunt once again after it backed India’s Pine Labs with a $125 million round. The financing jointly comes from PayPal and Temasek, the sovereign …

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  Trilogy Education gets $50M to build a market-driven bootcamp program for universities

  TechCrunch - Matthew Lynley

  While coding bootcamps may be in the middle of a shakeout, technology companies around the world are still going to be struggling to fill slots with people equipped with the skills to tackle real-world problems right from the get-go — and Dan Sommer hopes the answer is through universities. That’s …

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  Hello Alfred raises $40M to bring hotel-style hospitality to more households

  TechCrunch - Taylor Hatmaker

  New York-based chore wizard Hello Alfred is about to expand its mission to make life easier, one to-do list at a time. The company commands a small army of thoroughly trained home helpers who take care of domestic tasks like sorting mail, taking out the trash and picking up groceries. Those helpers …

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  More speakers, panels at The Europas, and how to get your ticket free

  TechCrunch - Mike Butcher

  The Europas Unconference & Awards is back on 3 July in London and we’re excited to announce more speakers and panel sessions as the event takes shape. Crypto and Blockchain will be a major theme this year, and we’re bringing together many of the key players. TechCrunch is once again the key media …