Extra Crunch roundup: Antitrust jitters, **** odyssey, white-hot IPOs, more
Some time ago, I gave up on the idea of identifying a thread that could connect each story in this weekly roundup. There are no unified theories for technology news. ...
Posts Tagged ‘payments’
Plaid CEO touts new ‘clarity’ after failed Visa acquisition
According to Plaid CEO Zach Perret, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a "sea change" in consumer behavior. ...
Venmo adds a check cashing feature, waives fees for stimulus checks
Venmo this morning announced it will begin to offer a new check cashing service, “Cash a Check,” in the Venmo mobile app. The feature, which is being rolled out to select users starting today, can be used to cash printed, payroll and U.S. government checks, including the new stimulus checks, the company says. Though typically ...
2020 was a defining year for cannabis: What comes next?
Ross Lipson Contributor Ross Lipson is CEO and co-founder at Dutchie, an online cannabis marketplace. Ross possesses more than a decade of experience in advanced and equitable delivery services for a variety of industries, including online food ordering, and has executed two successful business exits. To say that COVID-19 has dominated the past year would ...
The Biden administration can change the world with new crypto regulations
Regulation shouldn't be a guessing game. ...
How Visa and MasterCard strong armed PornHub into making policy changes
Earlier this month, I wrote about PornHub's recent policy changes. A quick summary: the New York Times published an exposé about victims of child trafficking and revenge ****, whose lives had been wrecked by explicit videos of them which were uploaded ... ...
The StockX megaround smells like pre-IPO money
An IPO? A shoe-reselling marketplace? Sure! At the numbers we know about it, why not? ...
Extra Crunch roundup: Inside DoorDash’s IPO, first-person founder stories, the latest in fintech VC and more
One of my favorite series of Monty Python sketches is built around the concept of surprise: Chapman: I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition. [JARRING CHORD] [Three cardinals burst in] Cardinal Ximénez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! I was reminded of this today when I needed to reschedule a few stories so we could cover DoorDash’s S-1 ...
Which neobanks will rise or fall?
Neobanks have created a new tech stack, completely changing the services, products and speed at which they are delivered, and creating more fluidity in payments and currencies. ...
PayCargo raises $35M from Insight for its cloud-based platform targeting the freight industry
Shipping has long been one of the more antiquated, and least technological, segments in the world of commerce, with its physical aspects — rooted in massive cargo tankers, giant fleets of aircraft and trucks, and trains of linked-up containers — underscoring some of the more obvious analogue attributes of the business. That has also made ...