Monthly Archives: August 2022

How retail companies are reducing friction in online and offline transactions

The customer experience (CX) landscape has changed dramatically over the last year. And consumers have been moving toward demanding more frictionless payment methods across online and offline channels. Do you work in the Ecommerce and Retail industry? Get business insights on the latest tech innovations, market trends, and your competitors with data-driven research. The following…

John Fetterman’s campaign says he’ll press Biden to ‘finally decriminalize marijuana’ when they march together in an upcoming Pittsburgh parade

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and President Joe Biden. Nate Smallwood/Getty Images and Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Biden will be joined by PA Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman at a Labor Day parade next week. Fetterman’s campaign says he plans to ask Biden to “finally decriminalize marijuana.” Marijuana decriminalization is broadly popular, and Biden…

Y Combinator’s all-star alum and VC Garry Tan returns to take over the accelerator as chief executive

Garry Tan is a founder and managing partner at Initialized Capital. Initialized Capital Initialized Capital founding partner Garry Tan is taking over as the CEO of Y Combinator.  A 2008 Y Combinator founder himself, Tan served as a YC partner from 2010 to 2015.  Partners Jen Wolf and Brett Gibson will take over for Tan…

I work a second job to pay off $86,000 in student-loan debt. The cancellation helps, but I’ll never get my 20s back.

“It’s such a small drop in the bucket for people like me, and even though I’m really glad there’s some kind of relief, there’s still so much pressure,” says Sarah, who just had $20,000 of her $86,000 debt forgiven. Jeffrey Coolidge/Getty Images President Joe Biden just canceled $10,000 in student-loan debt for many federal borrowers….

Royal quinoa is known as the “mother of all grains”. Here’s why it’s so expensive.

Once a “peasant food,” quinoa’s nutritional qualities have transformed it into a global superfood. Royal quinoa is considered the gold standard of quinoa and only grows in Bolivia. The global quinoa market is expected to grow from $90 billion today to nearly $150 billion by 2026. Once considered “peasant food”, quinoa’s highly nutritional qualities have…

Digital World Acquisition Corp. extends 4-day decline to 18% as Trump defends Truth Social’s performance and vote looms to delay IPO

Former President Donald Trump speaks at CPAC on August 6, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Digital World Acquisition Corp. extended its four-day decline to nearly 20% as a vote looms to delay its IPO.The SPAC has agreed to merge with former President Donald Trump’s social media company.Trump defended the recent business performance of…

FTC sues company for selling identifiable location data, including abortion clinic visits

The Federal Trade Commission has sued a data broker called Kochava, alleging the company sold geolocation information that could be used to reveal visits to sensitive locations. The agency says the data could show movements to and from reproductive health clinics, places of worship and addiction recovery centers, as well as homeless and domestic violence…

Facebook now supports NFTs

Meta has followed through on its threat promise to bring NFT (non-fungible token) support to Facebook. Users can now post digital collectibles that they have in their digital wallets across Facebook and Instagram. After they connect digital wallets to one app, they’ll be able to access NFTs from both of them. The company is making…