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SoLo Funds settles lawsuit over predatory lending accusations in District of Columbia

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In addition, the OAG claims company was “advertising affordable and flexible loans with no interest and no fees,” but then was requiring borrowers “to pay a percentage of the loan as a ‘tip’ to the lenders,” and “soliciting borrowers to pay a percentage of the loan to the company as a ‘donation.’”

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Modularizing React Applications: adding a new feature

Martin Fowler

Juntao Qiu now demonstrates how the refactored structure helps him deal with adding a charitable donation to the order and how this change prompts some further refactorings.

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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

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This means the competition for GitHub stars is now higher than ever, which suggests the superstars above are indeed outliers and it’ll be difficult to replicate their success. Let’s start with a simple one: crowdfunding and donations. Importantly, the average number of users per repository has shrunk from 0.8

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Daffy aims to make it easy (and cheap) to funnel money to a donor-advised fund with a few phone taps

TechCrunch

Renowned Silicon Valley operator Adam Nash thinks you want to donate much more than you do, and he’s about to make it dead simple for you. In fact, it’s that last role with Acorns, a micro-investing app, that informed what he’s building now, which is a new financial platform for giving called Daffy.

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Deed pulls your employer’s charity and volunteer program into Slack to keep it front of mind

TechCrunch

If your employer does any sort of charity donation matching, the system powering it might be… not great. Maybe it’s got an ancient interface; maybe it’s stuffed behind the VPN at some weird URL that takes a half hour to dig up every December when you remember there’s donation match money about to expire. Next up: Slack integration.

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Burn, baby, burn. Real estate-focused fintech startups feel the heat

TechCrunch

Now, to be fair, Reali and Better.com aren’t the only ones facing challenges in the real estate tech world. The goal, it says, is to increase average donation values for nonprofits. TC’s Sarah Perez reports that “ PayPal is expanding further into the charitable donations business with its August 25 launch of support for Grant Payments.

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Cisco Meraki Products Now Available for Donations and Discounts

TechSoup

Cisco Meraki is a Cisco-owned TechSoup partner providing cloud-managed networking and security products. Its industry-standard solutions are ideal for organizations looking to expand their network capabilities.