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PayPal is dropping processing charges for users of its mobile payment platform in an attempt to better take on Square and Groupon. [Verge]

Google is expected to debut a competitor to Spotify later today. Which one of you asked for this? [New York Times]

This is happening: "Boost VC is launching a fund of at least $300,000, called the Boost Bitcoin Fund to invest in Bitcoin startups." [Forbes]

Airware, a company that creates the insides of unmanned drones, is now freshly funded. Andreessen Horowitz just pumped a $10.7 million Series A funding into it. [TechCrunch]

A Blackberry BBM app is coming to iPhone and Android phones this summer if you still remember your pins. [BGR]

Crushing it on the job listings front.

It’s hard out there for a startup, what with the tech talent crunch and all. A different kind of hardship than the one faced by America's millions of underemployed, of course. But how are you going to recruit a programmer when Facebook can throw more money at almost any candidate worth having? At the seed-stage level, you'll need more than the promise of equity and the ability to work from home.

Well, two well-funded companies have figured out one way to stand out from the pack: cutesy job postings!

Exhibit A: This lengthy listing seeking an office manager for the Obvious Corp.-backed Medium. To better reflect the company culture and to pinpoint the type of employee sought, the position has been dubbed "office host," because:

"Just like that perfect party host, you’ll make sure all the details in our office are organized and that everyone is having a great time every day."

Hmm, “office dorm mom,” sounds more apt--with shades of “office cruise director.” For instance, here's how you start the morning: "As people filter in, your warm greeting and unwavering smile make them forget how much Muni sucks and reminds them why they are excited to come in each day to be with their work family."

The post goes on to outline specific duties like handling invoices, but woven throughout are the more ineffable responsibilities:

Someone stops at your desk to chat about a show they are going to next weekend, a couple others gather and a few of you decide to all go because you’re all just awesome peeps.

Perhaps this listing should have simply read: "Wanted, one Joan Holloway for promising SF startup. Martini ingredients provided."

Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the spectrum, comes this aw-shit-ya'll listing on Hacker News from the incorrigible team at Rap Genius. Title: "Rap Genius (YC S11) Seeks Brilliant Engineers to Build Internet Talmud." The gang is seeking (1) genius Rails programmer, (1) genius iOS/Android programmer and (1) genius front-end developer who can also design. Presumably, no non-geniuses need apply.

To be considered, you must be:

down to help build the Internet Talmud (aka the best hip hop site, the best lyrics site, the best music social network, the best wikipedia for explanations of all of text, etc, etc)

If you sign on, your "pretty serious bennies" will include, "SICK salary & equity. You won't be taking a pay cut to work here (unless you work for a hedge fund...)," as well as "Free bomb health insurance," a new iPhone, a gym membership and unlimited free Seamless.

"SWA-SWAAG!" the posting concludes.

At least no one can say expectations weren’t laid out perfectly clearly from the outset.

(h/t Matt Langer)

Fare thee well, Mr. Dixon!

The news broke this weekend, but it's now official: New York tech mainstay Chis Dixon is joining Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner. And--in a loss for the local tech scene--he'll be picking up stakes for Menlo Park.

But they don't even have converted factory spaces for their coworking spaces!

Just this May, the firm poached Foursquare's Tristan Walker to be an entrepreneur in residence.*

Mr. Dixon confirmed the move on his blog:

Spending time there, I had the same feeling I have whenever I meet a great startup: “This is obviously the future, why didn’t someone do it before?”

So I’m super excited to say that I’m joining a16z as their seventh General Partner. I’ll specialize in consumer internet investments but will be open to anything ambitious that involves technology. I’ll be based in California, but plan to do a lot of investing in NYC.

So it's goodbye for now, but not forever. That's not keeping his fellow NYC techies from giving him a bittersweet send-off, though:

Fantastic fit. We’ll miss you in NYC but I’m sure we’ll see you around :) Huge congrats! RT @cdixon: a16z cdixon.org/2012/11/19/a16…

— Alex Rainert (@arainert) November 19, 2012

Congrats @cdixon on the big move! You will always be a big apple to us. Back to work shoulder chipping NYC. #LoveNY pandodaily.com/2012/11/19/chr…

— Yaron Samid (@YaronSamid) November 19, 2012

Congrats Chris - big loss for NYC “@cdixon: a16z cdixon.org/2012/11/19/a16…”

— John Maloney (@JohnMaloney) November 19, 2012

And he's already getting big ups from his new neighbors:

@sacca @cdixon next step is getting him down to Manhattan Beach ;-)

— Peter Pham (@peterpham) November 19, 2012

*An earlier version of this post incorrectly misstated that Mr. Walker had been based primarily in New York. Betabeat regrets the error. 

Betabeat chatted with several sources this week who suggested that the company would definitely be returning to previous backers Union Square Ventures and Adreessen Horowitz for some of this new capital.

Dennis Crowley just got back from a West Coast tour where he visited Apple and was spotted dining with Google. Today Foursquare's head of recruiting checked in along Sand Hill Road at Andreessen Horowitz.

Got any more insight?