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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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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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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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GoSoapBox Celebrates First Year With Juicy Stats

GoSoapBox circumvents the issue of classroom passivity by allowing students and teachers to connect on a web platform that can be utilized during class time to anonymously ask questions or quiz students on what they’ve learned so far.

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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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Arch Grants Ups The Ante To $1 Million For Next Batch Of Grants

Arch Grants is a non-profit organization that issues grants based on The Arch Grants Business Plan Competition, but the only catch is that the startups selected to receive the grants must stay (or relocate) to downtown St. Louis.

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