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Piggy looks to build a simple app for first-time investors in India
The name “Piggy” might seem weirdly uninviting for an investment app — which is serious business — but co-founder Nikhil Mantha says it holds a kind of comfort that should attract users in India to...
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Robinhood stock trading comes to web with finance news for its 3M users
You know what’s cool? Not just being worth over $1 billion, but saving your customers $1 billion. Today, zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood announced that it’s hit 3 million registered accounts, $100...
View ArticleCrunch Report | Doppler Labs Shuts Down
Today’s Stories Smart earbuds startup Doppler Labs shuts down after raising $50M+ Sony reboots Aibo with AI and extra kawaii Robinhood stock trading comes to web with finance news for its 3M users...
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Robinhood adds zero-fee cryptocurrency trading and tracking
No-commission stock trading app Robinhood will let you buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum without any added transaction fees starting in February, compared to Coinbase’s 1.5 to 4 percent fees in the US....
View ArticleCrunch Report | CNN shuts down Casey Neistat’s Beme
Today’s Stories Robinhood adds zero-fee cryptocurrency trading and tracking CNN shuts down Casey Neistat’s Beme, but some of its digital news tech will live on Sotheby’s acquires Thread Genius to...
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Robinhood rolls out zero-fee crypto trading as it hits 4M users
Coinbase has some serious competition. Today, Robinhood starts rolling out its no-commission cryptocurrency trading feature in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana and New Hampshire. Users...
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A tale of two startups with ‘superstore’ ambitions: Robinhood and Cadre
The buzzy startups Robinhood and Cadre are known for different things. Five-year-old Robinhood has established its reputation by offering commission-free stock trading, while three-year-old Cadre burst...
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Stock trade app Robinhood raising at $5B+, up 4X in a year
By adding a cryptocurrency exchange, a web version and stock option trading, Robinhood has managed to quadruple its valuation in a year, according to a source familiar with a new round the startup is...
View ArticleQuintacorn Robinhood’s free crypto trading rolls out in Cali, 3 more states
Robinhood is rolling out its Coinbase-killer that’s already helped the fintech startup’s valuation grow 4X in a year. Zero-fee trading of Bitcoin and Ethereum is now available to all investors in...
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Free stock trading app Robinhood rockets to a $5.6B valuation with new...
Robinhood started off as a dead-simple stock trading application that had no transaction fees — but since it’s continued to grow, and especially as it starts to dive into cryptocurrency, investors are...
View ArticleEquity podcast: Robinhood raises, Flipkart exits and MoviePass is running out...
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-themed podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Matthew Lynley, Connie Loizos and myself were joined by Villi...
View ArticleCryptocurrency and a stock market boom pushes TradingView to $37 million in...
Fueled by last year’s greed-inducing visions of a cryptocurrency boom and a stock market largely untethered from classical economics, TradingView, a developer of social networking and data analysis...
View ArticleCoinbase is acquiring a securities dealer in order to trade your startup tokens
Every day, tech investors and reporters are pitched on new services that intend to generate digital tokens that its creators expect will trade . . . somewhere. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Coinbase, known...
View ArticleRevolut announces a Robinhood-like trading product
Fintech startup Revolut likes to announce new things all the time. Even though nothing is going live today, it’s interesting to see where the startup is heading. The company is working on a trading...
View ArticleYou can now trade Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash on Robinhood Crypto
Fintech startup Robinhood is expanding its cryptocurrency trading product with two new token listings. Users in selected states can now trade Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash from the app. Robinhood is...
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Robinhood CEO Baiju Bhatt to talk fintech at Disrupt SF
Robinhood has gone from being a little consumer-facing fintech app to an absolutely giant consumer-facing fintech app. The company, which launched in 2013, has ballooned to a $5.6 billion valuation on...
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Titan launches its mobile ‘not a hedge fund’
What Robinhood did to democratize buying individual stocks, Titan wants to do for investing in a managed portfolio. Instead of being restricted to rich accredited investors willing to pour $5,000 or...
View ArticleRobinhood gives investors international targets to aim for with launch of ADR...
Robinhood, the app-based investment platform for all your speculative investing needs, has launched a tool for investors to throw money at publicly traded international companies through the rollout of...
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Robinhood aims at IPO as the fintech startup seeks CFO
Now valued at $5.6 billion, zero-fee stock trading app and cryptocurrency exchange Robinhood is starting preparations to go public. Just a year and a half ago, it was still largely under the radar. But...
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Robinhood cuts trading fees, grows profits with in-house clearing
As zero-commission stock trading app Robinhood starts preparing to IPO, an engineering investment two years in the making could accelerate its quest for profitability. Most stock broker services have...
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