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Insureon Rakes in $31 million to Expand Tech Platform
Insureon, a Chicago-based online small business insurance provider, announced $31 million in new funding Wednesday. ...
13 Apps for iPhone Users with an Android Bae
It’s a fast, simple video sharing app like Snapchat and Qik, but they stay in the app for as long as you want them to. You and yours can ...
OptionsCity Unveils Suite of Solutions for Global Exchanges
OptionsCity Software, a global provider of futures and options trading and analytics solutions, has announced OptionsCity Exchange ...
OptionsCity Rolls Out Exchange Solutions Suite
Chicago-based OptionsCity has launched Exchange Solutions, a suite of products aimed at global exchanges. The Exchange Solution suite ...
For IPO Investors, Will it Be Hip to Be Square?
If you think you've got a thorny to-do list, consider what Square co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey has tucked away on some tablet or ...
Introducing the 150 Nominees for Chicago Inno’s 50 on Fire
When a city's innovation economy is on fire, it's the result of thousands of people and companies, across a variety of categories, ...
Employees Want Financial Wellness Programs, Privately
Financial wellness programs: Employees want them—or say they do. But when push comes to shove, employees either say their employers ...
Here Are the 5 Apps You Need to Download This Week
App stores are crowded places these days, and because storage space on your phone is often at a premium, you’ll want to fill it with not ...
Financial Wellness Programs Can Carry a Stigma
Resources that help employees manage their finances or plan for their financial futures have wide appeal and great potential for use ...
Life Insurance Myths as Halloween Costumes
This month, many children will masquerade as the scariest characters they can imagine. Underneath those costumes is the simple reality ...
CEO Amanda Lannert on Jellyvision’s Culture
Jellyvision is one of Chicago's biggest tech successes. Launched in 1989 under the name Learn Television, the company created the You ...
This Tech Company Is ‘Ugly and Boring’—and Booming
Here's how Jellyvision CEO Amanda Lannert describes her crew (and herself): “We're nerds,” she says. “We run to the ugly and boring.” ...
APIs Add Fuel to FinTech Innovation
In one way or another, most of today's consumer-facing technology is powered by APIs, which run under the surface and allow software ...
Small Business Is “Just Starting to Boom,” but Agents Need to Be Better
After the long dirge of the Great Recession, optimism among the nation’s small business owners is up. According to the National ...
Brunch App Lets You Be Spontaneously Social with Your Friends
If you are in a large group of people trying to organise something it can be maddening to receive group messages and responses. We often ...