Current, the startup behind an app-controlled debit card aimed at tweens and teens, is adding new strategic investor Fifth Third Capital, a direct equity investment subsidiary of Fifth Third Bancorp, to its recent Series A round of funding. The investment wasn’t directly disclosed, but we’ve learned it’s $1 million. In October, Current announced it had closed on $5 million… Read More
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The coolest 14-year-old is raising money to send 1,000 girls to see ‘A Wrinkle in Time’
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Sometimes a movie comes along and has such a powerful impact on the world that it inspires a wave of charitable efforts.
The latest film to do so is Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time, based on Madeleine L’Engle’s popular science fiction-fantasy novel.
The movie, which has a female-heavy cast, stars inspirational women of color like Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling, and Storm Reid. With the desire for girls around the world to see the powerful cast in action, 14-year-old Taylor Richardson set out to raise money to purchase hundreds of tickets for them.
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Plus-size teen rocks dress she never thought she’d wear and the photos are so inspiring
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Friends can sometimes give us the little nudge we need to try something that we’ve lacked the confidence to do.
Ashlie Bautista, 18, from Texas, USA, tweeted that her friends convinced her to wear a dress she never thought she’d wear. And, she ended up gaining some confidence in herself.
“So last night, I wore something that I never thought I would wear,” wrote Bautista. “I’m very insecure but with the help of my amazing friends for hyping me up, I was able to wear it and gained a little bit more confidence in myself.” Read more…
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View More Plus-size teen rocks dress she never thought she’d wear and the photos are so inspiringMove over Tide Pods, police are cracking down on a dangerous Ikea challenge
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It seems the internet can’t get enough of dangerous challenges.
UK police have issued a warning about a teen craze called the “24 hour challenge” after an 11-year-old went missing while sleeping over in Ikea.
11-year-old Kaden Mirza from Sheffield, UK, was reported missing earlier this week after he didn’t return home from school. Mirza was found the following day after having spent the night inside Ikea as part of the viral internet trend. The boy’s father, Abid Mirza, posted a warning to parents on his Facebook—which has since been made private—stating that his son had been participating in a “stay in Ikea overnight and not get caught challenge.” Read more…
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Teen Bitcoin bro thinks that if you don’t become a millionaire, you messed up
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Not a Bitcoin millionaire? You goofed!
This, at least, is the opinion of Erik Finman, a 19-year-old Bitcoin investor fresh out of childhood and fresh into being pompous about cryptocurrency.
According to a profile of Finman from Business Insider, the teen bet his parents that if he became a millionaire by age 18, he wouldn’t have to attend college. And — thanks to investment money from his grandmother — he invested in Bitcoin and pulled it off.
Well, technically, he and his grandmother pulled it off. But who cares about the details? Read more…
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View More Teen Bitcoin bro thinks that if you don’t become a millionaire, you messed upPhone-addicted teens aren’t as happy as those who play sports and hang out IRL, new study suggests
To no parent’s surprise, too much smartphone use makes teens unhappy. So says a new study from San Diego State University, which pulled data from over one million 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-graders in the U.S. showing teens who spent more time on social media, gaming, texting and video-chatting on their phones were not as happy as those who played sports, went outside and interacted with… Read More
Calm down, everybody. Very, very, very few teens are trying to eat Tide Pods.
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You’d be forgiven for thinking that every person under the age of 25 now lives off a diet of Tide Pods.
If you’ve gone online recently, you’ve heard of the Tide Pods meme, the challenge, and the widespread outrage the little detergent capsules have caused. Though the craze may have roots in a 2015 Onion piece, a lot of people over the past few months agree that the poisonous and colorful little packets look pretty appetizing.
Some people have actually bitten into them.
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View More Calm down, everybody. Very, very, very few teens are trying to eat Tide Pods.For millennials, sending your first text message was a rite of passage
25 years ago, on 3 December 1992, a British engineer sent a message to a colleague. The contents were unremarkable, a simple “Merry Christmas,” but this dispatch of seasonal cheer happened to be the first text message ever sent.
These days, the humbl…
A woman is writing poignant poems to strangers based on their Twitter DMs
A writer is crafting poems to strangers based on the Twitter DMs sent to her and they’re truly beautiful.
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FriendO, a quiz app with NSFW questions, goes viral with teens
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There’s a new “quiz app” going viral with teens that’s a lot more NSFW than tbh.
Called FriendO, the app lets users compete in “quizzes” to find out who their “real friends” are — and teens are going crazy for it.
Sort of like a non-anonymous version of tbh, which Facebook acquired last month, FriendO has been climbing up the App Store charts over the last month.
The app has a number of “categories” that friends can quiz each other on, such as what their favorite foods and sports are, or other personality traits. Users take turns answering questions about each other, and they’re then ranked in an in-app leaderboard, which shows their scores. Read more…
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View More FriendO, a quiz app with NSFW questions, goes viral with teensYouTuber’s advent calendar for tweens was terrible and her excuse was even worse
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Brits are raging over the price of Zoella’s advent calendar. And, the mass fury doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. People are more pissed off than ever before after the YouTuber released a new vlog in which she attempted to address the criticism of her pricey advent calendar.
Zoella—who has 12 million YouTube subscribers and 11.2 million Instagram followers—released a £50 advent calendar in the run-up to Christmas, which is being sold exclusively at Boots.
But, many people have taken issue with the contents of the ’12 days of Christmas’ advent calendar, which they believe does not warrant a £50 price tagPer the product’s description on the Boots website, the calendar contains a key ring, pen, bauble, cookie cutter, jotter, candle, stickers, among other trinkets. Read more…
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View More YouTuber’s advent calendar for tweens was terrible and her excuse was even worseJohn Legend pens tribute to English teacher who shaped his career
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John Legend has written about his own high school education in a powerful op-ed about empowering teachers for HuffPost.
In the post—entitled “By Empowering Teachers, We Can Level The Playing Field For Every Student”—the singer urged greater support for teachers to “ensure that future generations” will have access to better quality education and, as a result, far greater opportunities in life.
“I still remember standing at the podium during my high school graduation, looking out over the crowd,” wrote Legend. He said that in that moment, it struck him that the number of students graduating was half what it had been at freshman orientation. “Nearly fifty percent of my peers had given up on their education and dropped out,” he noted. Read more…
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