Meet Fintecture, a French startup that wants to upgrade B2B payments. While many payment companies have focused on B2C payments with Stripe leading the way, B2B payments haven’t changed much over the years. “In the U.S., there are still a lot of paper checks. In Europe, it’s mostly transfers and manual reconciliation,” Fintecture co-founder and…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
We are living in the era of so-called microsatellites, which are equipped with thermal cameras and other regalia to, for instance, alert farmers before crops are damaged, predict droughts, and aid in the juggling of supply chains. Climate change is making less land available for agricultural food production, leading to strict regulations on the use…
If you’re anything like me, you spend a little too much time reading about who owns what social media app, and games like Quordle are your escape. So it’s a drag when it’s too hard. This is supposed to be fun! If Quordle is a little too challenging today, you’ve come to the right place…
Twitter staff may have to return to the office full-time, in a reversal of its flexible WFH policy. Tayfun Coskun/Getty Images Twitter plans to cut about half of its workforce following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition. It is planning to order staff to return to the office on a full-time basis after layoffs, per Axios….
WhatsApp is rolling out some new features, including one that’s designed to bring related group chats together. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Communities feature earlier this year, and the aim is to allow users to combine group chats “under one umbrella with a structure that works for them.” Similar tools are in the works…
Communities are like Discord, but for WhatsApp. | The Verge Meta is rolling out a few changes to WhatsApp that will make the app better to use for large circles of people, including the wide rollout of Communities. Communities are designed to house multiple related groups within bigger organizations of people, such as a neighborhood…
Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash Hello from Manila! You thought I’d be writing to you from Bali, and frankly, so did I. But the Gods of Air Travel had other ideas. Let me explain. The original plan was to fly from Los Angeles to Manila, change planes, then head for Bali. Our layover in Manila…
SparkLabs Korea, a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. The accelerator has backed more than 270 startups since its inception in 2012, co-founder and partner of SparkLabs…
Jimmy Kimmel put a pause on the annual Halloween candy prank during the past two years, reasoning that children have had it hard enough during the pandemic. For years, each Halloween the late night host would instruct parents to tell their kids they’d eaten all their Halloween candy and record their reactions. While never fun…
A destroyed Russian tank is seen outside of Izyum district of Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine on October 13, 2022. Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia’s weapons need to be modernized. Weapons manufacturers should get feedback from soldiers, he said on Wednesday. It’s a rare acknowledgment of the flaws in the…