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Online trading platforms are one of the easiest ways to start investing from home. They conveniently allow users to trade stocks, bonds, funds, and other marketable securities on their own — or have an expert do it for them. Whether you’re an active trader, a passive investor, or somewhere in between, there’s a type of online trading platform for everyone. Read on to learn more about the best online brokers and trading platforms in the industry today. Our Top Picks for Best Online Stock Trading Fidelity – Best Overall TD Ameritrade – Best Web Platform Betterment – Best for Hands-Off…

There are two main types of student loans: federal student loans — issued by the U.S. Department of Education — and private student loans. Both differ in interest rates, eligibility requirements, loan modification options and forgiveness programs. Federal loans offer more flexible repayment terms, but private student loans can help you cover your school’s total cost of attendance if you’ve exhausted all other options. Take advantage of our best student loan guide and find the best lenders to help meet your higher education goals. Our Top Picks For Best Student Loans Best Federal Student Loans: Direct Subsidized Loan Direct Unsubsidized…

From beaming actors into the class room to plucking things out of space, the second day of Y Combinator’s S21 Demo Day was a fresh snapshot of what nearly 200 startup teams believe is the future of innovation. Yesterday, the TechCrunch team covered the first half of this batch, as well as the startups with one-minute pitches that stood out to us. We even podcasted about it! Today, we’re doing it all over again. Here’s our full list of all startups that presented on the record today, and below, you’ll find our votes for the best Y Combinator pitches of Day…

In the UK, a 12-month grace period for compliance with a design code aimed at protecting children online expires today — meaning app makers offering digital services in the market which are “likely” to be accessed by children (defined in this context as users under 18 years old) are expected to comply with a set of standards intended to safeguard kids from being tracked and profiled. The age appropriate design code came into force on September 2 last year however the UK’s data protection watchdog, the ICO, allowed the maximum grace period for hitting compliance to give organizations time to…

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s continuing coverage of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day! This is Day Two. If you haven’t caught up yet on what happened during the first day, you can read our recap of all the presenting companies here, our favorites from that first set here, and a quick podcast about all of the above. Today we’re back in the action, listening to a few hundred rapid-fire pitches throughout the day. What follows are short overviews of each company based on their one-minute pitch. Elsewhere on the site we’ll soon have our Day Two favorites for you to…

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for September 1, 2021. It’s a big day in TechCrunch history in that we’ve been shuffled to a new parent company. More on that in a moment. First, Disrupt attendees, you can now hit up CrunchMatch to meet other cool folks. See you there! — Alex Fire up CrunchMatch today and start networking with TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 attendees The TechCrunch Top 3 Hello, Apollo! TechCrunch is no longer part of Verizon…

Former President Donald Trump has endorsed a candidate in Pennsylvania’s 2022 U.S. Senate race. On Wednesday afternoon, Trump announced that he has endorsed Sean Parnell, a combat veteran, author, and former congressional candidate, for the GOP nomination for the 2022 race. “Sean Parnell is running for the United States Senate to serve the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Sean bravely fought for our Country as a Captain in the U.S. Army and was awarded two Bronze Stars (one for valor!) and the Purple Heart,” Trump wrote in his endorsement. “Unlike our current administration, he never left anyone behind.” “Sean is a…

Mark McClain Contributor Share on Twitter Mark McClain is the founder and CEO of SailPoint, the leader in cloud enterprise security. You’ve heard the phrase “leading by example,” but what about “leading with values”? I’ve always led by example by using my values as my guide. Still, it wasn’t until I founded my first company that I fully understood the importance of embedding those values into the company, too. Integrity, individuals, impact and innovation are the “4 I values” that drive my decisions and the actions of those at my company each day. These are not just words on a…

Does this sound familiar? An app goes viral on social media, often including TikTok, then immediately climbs to the top of the App Store where it gains even more new installs thanks to the heightened exposure. That’s what happened with the recent No. 1 on the U.S. App Store, Fontmaker, a subscription-based fonts app which appeared to benefit from word-of-mouth growth thanks to TikTok videos and other social posts. But what we’re actually seeing here is a new form of App Store marketing — and one which now involves one of the oldest players in the space: Vungle. Fontmaker, at…

Bright Cellars, a six-year-old, Milwaukee, Wis.-based subscription-based wine seller has, like many upstarts, evolved over time. While it once sent its club members third-party wines that fit their particular profiles, Bright Cellars says it’s now amassing enough data about its customers through its “palate” quizzes that it no longer sells wines made by other brands. Instead, while some of its “original” offerings are admittedly sold by other labels under different names, it is increasingly finding success by directing its winemaker partners to tweak the recipe, so to speak. “We’re optimizing wine like you might optimize a more digital product,” says…