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Betterment is a new startup that wants to be the “replacement for your savings account.” Betterment earns you more money than a standard savings account and offer more flexibility than higher yield accounts. You do not need any knowledge about the financial products and the market to use this service.
The site has two portfolios- one [...]

Transactions of private-company stock on SecondMarket nearly doubled in March. The transactions rose to $70 million from $43.8 million in February. It is the highest amount that has ever been traded on SecondMarket. Download the stats here.
Among the transactions, 41% is of sales of Facebook stock (as high as $40 per share).
MedeAnalytics, a healthcare performance analytics [...]
About three weeks ago, eBay’s electronic payments service PayPal suddenly started blocking personal payments going in or coming out of accounts from Indian customers. This blocking saw huge protests in the form of online complaints that ranged from accusations of racism to sheer amateurism.
Last week, rumors that PayPal was actually forced into halting personal payments [...]

SecondMarket published data on private company stock sales helped by them in 2009. Now they have come up with last month’s data.
More than $13 million in sales happened during this time. The average transaction size was about $2 million. A strong demand can be seen for consumer products and services startups (companies like Facebook, Twitter, [...]

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google co-founders, will sell off up to 10 million shares within the next five years (SEC filing ). Taking the closing price of yesterday $550, it will be worth $5.5 billion. Both co-founders hold Class B shares with super-voting rights. If the sell 5 million shares, their voting control will [...]
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