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Braintree Gives Back With $50,000 In Free Payment Processing

Braintree has announced this week that, for the next 1,000 businesses to create an account, it will wave processing fees for the first $50,000 — no strings attached.

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BrightTag Scores Big In Yahoo! Japan Partnership

Chicago startup BrightTag announced this week that its tag management platform has been selected to support Yahoo! Japan’s web infrastructure.

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Treehouse Friends: Interview with Paul Irish

Leader of the teaching team at Treehouse Nick Pettit interviews web developer Paul Irish.

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Ohio-Based Applits Wants To Crowdsource The Next Big App

The real test of this startup is not whether they can get enough ideas, but whether or not they can monetize the apps in the app store once they are finished.

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Capital Innovators Opens Applications For Spring Class

St. Louis startup accelerator Capital Innovators has begun accepting applications for its Spring 2013 class this week, offering fledgling companies $50,000 in seed funding as well as free office space in T-REx.

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Big Banks Funnel $167M Into Renewable Energy Company

E.ON Climate & Renewables, whose North American division is headquartered in Chicago, announced this week that it has received a $167.7 million equity investment from JP Morgan and Wells Fargo.

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Lockerdome and RollSale CEOs To Speak At StartLouis

The StartLouis meetup is a grassroots community of startup enthusiasts that was founded in late autumn of last year. Since then, the group has grown to include over 230 members and four sponsors: Lockerdome, T-REx, Schlafly, and Food Essentials.

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Pick A Founder’s Brain At 1871’s Digital Leaders Office Hours

Entrepreneurs seeking mentorship will have the chance to meet up with some of the biggest minds in the Chicago startup community over the next year thanks to a new initiative at 1871.

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adFreeq Is The Anti-Craigslist

While Craigslist has widely been criticized as singlehandedly killing the newspaper industry by taking classifieds to the web, adFREEQ is attempting to reclaim the classified revenue model for traditional media outlets like radio and newspapers that now have a web presence.

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One Year Later, T-REx Roars Louder Than City Leaders Expected

The economic activity from within T-REx roars louder than city leaders originally expected, and St. Louis is ready to transition T-REx from an initiative to a formalized organization.

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