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Skip The Gift Cards: Boomerang Makes Holiday Gifting Fast And Thoughtful

There’s nothing that says, “I don’t know you at all” like a Target gift card given over the holidays. Enter Boomerang, a Chicago-based startup that makes holiday gifting fast AND thoughtful by allowing you to send digital gifts to your Facebook friends.

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Grab A Shirtfull Of Arabic Humor At Habibtees

Arab American and entrepreneur Ramzey Nassar has set out to corner an entirely untapped market, bringing Arabic humor to the masses one t-shirt at a time.

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Post To Instagram And Get Paid With Portland-Based Chirpify

Portland-based Chirpify launched a new feature this week that allows people to monetize their Instagram feeds. Chirpify allows in-stream transactions by integrating with PayPal and taking 5% of each transaction.

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Chicago-Area’s Socialaundry Joins Growing List Of American Pride Startups

“Made In America” is hot again, and it’s not just because we are in the middle of election season. A Chicago-area startup called Socialaundry is taking the “Made In America” trend literally by selling American-made t-shirts designed with crowdsourced art.

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Social Commerce Startup Red Meat Market Partners With City Of Chicago

Red Meat Market is a social commerce site the blends education, content, and events all tailored to people who love red meat. The site sells meat too, but at its core, Red Meat Market is a community.

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Chicago-based CakeStyle Delivers Personal Style To Your Door

According to Chicago-based startup CakeStyle, the average woman spends 170 hours per year shopping. For busy professional women, this is time that could be spent growing their companies, or launching new ventures. CakeStyle takes the concept of saving time for busy women one step further by becoming a personal style assistant that delivers fashions finds that are suited according to a woman’s personal style.

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Braintree Introduces Instant Merchant Account Approval In US

With the accelerated service, startups can now begin accepting online payments through Braintree within the same day of submitting an application, eliminating the waiting process that once spanned a few days.

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Quidsi Launches E-Commerce Site Dedicated To Green Products

This week New Jersey-based Quidsi, Inc. has introduced its latest specialized e-commerce website, Vine.com, dedicated entirely to providing natural, organic, and sustainably-made products to online shoppers.

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What Square’s $3.25 Billion Valuation Means For Mobile Payments

Square is valued at a whopping $3.25 billion according to AllThingsD after the company closed its latest $200 million round. But what does this mean in the increasingly crowded mobile payments space?

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Launch KC Fueled By Google Fiber Project

Officials in Kansas City, MO took the wrapper off Launch KC, an economic development initiative designed to attract tech startups through an arsenal of offerings. Launch KC includes public and.

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