Embedded banking — used by companies that do not build financial products like credit, payments or deposits from the ground up but want to offer those services to their customers to grow revenues — has been on a big growth tear in the last several years, and today one of the bigger players building finance…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Naver buying Poshmark for $17.90 per share is a fascinating deal, featuring elements of cross-border M&A, a sector on its back foot, and stock-market dynamics making some formerly expensive companies perhaps cheaper to pick off than they may ever be again. TechCrunch+ asked yesterday why we weren’t seeing more software M&A in light of depressed…
Months after bagging $116 million in an extension of its Series F round, database vendor SingleStore this week announced that it raised an additional $30 million from investors including Prosperity7, the venture arm of Saudi Aramco. The Series F — or “Series F-2,” technically — now stands at $146 million, bringing SingleStore’s total raised to…
Google’s anticipated iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets have now begun to arrive. Alongside the launch of Apple’s new mobile operating system, iOS 16, the search giant last month had teased its plans to support the iPhone’s newest feature that allows users to place widgets directly on their phone’s lock screen, offering information and easy access…
Car rental company Sixt said Tuesday it intends to purchase over 100,000 electric vehicles from Chinese automaker BYD for its European fleet between now and 2028. Sixt has initially only committed to buying “several thousand” EVs, the first of which will be delivered this year, the company said in a statement. Sixt said it will…
The Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in June, upending the precedent of the right to privacy and abortion in the United States. While Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell doesn’t sit on SCOTUS, he no doubt had a hand in orchestrating the current conservative court that led to the decision. As we’re getting figuratively fucked by…
Now the drama over Don’t Worry Darling is ebbing (but not over, never over), Florence Pugh’s other new anticipated film is coming, and the trailer has landed. Based on Room author Emma Donoghue’s novel which was inspired by the 19th century “Fasting Girls” phenomenon, Sebastián Lelio’s psychological drama The Wonder stars Pugh as English Nightingale…
The wait for a USB-C compatible iPhone is finally over. Or, at least, it will be in Europe in two years’ time. The European Parliament formally approved a measure that would require all small and mid-sized electronics to charge via the same standard of USB-C. This proposal was agreed upon back in June, but Parliament…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered multiple GitHub accounts selling fake proof-of-work concept exploits for the latest zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in Microsoft Exchange. The warning follows the discovery of two new zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange: CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082. These are a server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw, and remote code execution (RCE) flaw, with both said to…
VideoLAN, the developer behind VLC Media Player, has issued a legal notice to India’s Telecom (DoT) and IT (MeitY) bodies over the block of its platform. The free and open-source media player has been silently banned in India since February, in what the provider describes as a “violation of international obligations to protect free speech”…