Venmo launches its first credit card, offering up to 3% cash back, personalized rewards
Last October, Venmo announced it would launch its first credit card sometime in 2020. Today, the PayPal-owned company is making good on those promises with the debut of the Venmo Credit Card, initially rolling out to select customers. The Visa card offers 3% cash back on eligible purchases, persona
Printing giant Vistaprint acquires 99designs
Vistaprint announced today that its parent company Cimpress has acquired freelance design marketplace 99designs.
The companies say that 99designs will become part of Vistaprint while also operating as a separate brand, with 99designs CEO Patrick Llewelyn continuing to lead his team and reporting to
TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 starts tomorrow
TC Sessions: Mobility 2020, kicks off in full swing tomorrow! Don't miss out on two full days devoted to the technology and people that make things fly, roll, haul or deliver. Today's the last day you can save on the price of admission, which starts at just $25. Stop what you're doing a
Strike Graph raises $3.9M to help automate security audits
Compliance automation isn’t exactly the most exciting topic, but security audits are big business and companies that aim to get a SOC 2, ISO 207001 or FedRamp certification can often spend six figures to get through the process with the help of an auditing service. Seattle-based Strike Graph,
Camera that will film a spacewalk in VR delivered to the International Space Station
One of the payloads aboard the International Space Station resupply mission that launched last Friday will provide a new perspective on one of the most enervating human experiences — the spacewalk. It’s a custom-made, 3D camera designed to capture content in 360-degrees while in space,
Instagram expands shopping on IGTV, plans test of shopping on Reels
Instagram this morning announced the global expansion of its Instagram Shopping service across IGTV. The product, which lets you watch a video then check out with a few taps, offers creators and influencers a way to more directly monetize their user base on Instagram, while also giving brands a way
As it closes in on Arm, Nvidia announces UK supercomputer dedicated to medical research
As Nvidia continues to work through its deal to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion, the computing giant is making another big move to lay out its commitment to investing in U.K. technology. Today the company announced plans to develop Cambridge-1, a new £40 million AI supercomputer that wi
The Little Black Door app makes luxury wardrobes shareable, resalable and sustainable
When Lexi Willetts and Marina Pengilly realized they could make as much as £30,000 a year reselling their luxury clothes and accessories online, they resolved to create a solution for modern women who are already well-versed in the behaviors of Instagram and the sharing economy. Their solution, Li
GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage
Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as mlions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to COVID-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of
Corsair’s TBT100 Thunderbolt 3 dock offers the right expandability in a well-designed package
Gaming peripheral expert Corsair has released a new Thunderbolt 3 docking station that boasts a number of useful ports, paired with aesthetics that should fit in perfectly with any of Apple’s Space Gray hardware kit. The TBT100 dock offers plenty of expandability for making your Mac the cente
Nest Audio review
The Nest Audio is a surprisingly hefty thing. It's compact, but dense, packing a lot into a footprint not much taller than an iPhone. At 2.65 pounds, it's 2.5x the weight of the original Home. It's clear that, above all, Google was interested in offering up something premium, in spite o
Cooler Screens raises $80M to bring interactive screens into cooler aisles
Cooler Screens, which uses interactive digital displays to replace the glass doors in store cooler aisles, is announcing that it has raised more than $80 million in Series C funding.
The startup has now raised more than $100 million in funding. The latest round comes from Verizon Ventures (Verizon
Crowdcube and Seedrs agree to merge, creating a significant private equity marketplace
The two main crowd-equity fundraising platforms in the U.K., Crowdcube and Seedrs, have agreed to terms on a long-rumored merger, thus creating one of the world's largest private equity marketplaces. The value of the merged company is $140 million.
The merger is being structured as an acquisiti
Google delays mandating Play Store payments rule in India to April 2022
Google is postponing to April 2022 the enforcement of its new Play Store billing rule in India, days after more than 150 startups in the world's second largest internet market forged an informal coalition to express concerns over the 30% charge the Android-maker plans to mandate on its store an