Bank-as-a-service startup Swan helps other companies issue cards, accounts and IBANs
Meet Swan, a new French startup that wants to let other companies offer financial services by issuing cards, bank accounts and IBANs with just a few lines of codes. The company could be considered as a bank-as-a-service platform, like Treezor or Solarisbank.
Originally founded by startup studio eFo
Homage announces strategic partnership with Infocom, one of Japan’s largest healthcare IT providers
Homage, a Singapore-based caregiving and telehealth company, has taken a major step in its global expansion plan. The startup announced today that it has received strategic investment from Infocom, the Japanese information and communications technology company that runs one of the largest healthcar
Facebook launches a climate change information center and commits to eliminating ‘scope 3’ emissions by 2030
Even as Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform, admits that climate change “is real” and that “the science is unambiguous and the need to act grows more urgent by the day” the platform appears unwilling to take steps to really stand up to the climate chang
Indian e-commerce deals site CashKaro gets $10 million Series B led by Korea Investment Partners
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CashKaro, one of the leading cashback and coupon sites in India, will expand its range of services for e-commerce after raising $10 million in Series B funding, the
Carbon Health and Color founders see power in bringing healthcare to the edge
When COVID-19 spread to the United States, the pandemic exposed two conflicting realities: a healthcare system that excels at high-cost, complex treatments while failing to provide sufficient access at the local level.
That lack of access to public health infrastructure might be the country’s
N95 masks could soon be rechargeable instead of disposable
The pandemic has led to N95 masks quickly becoming one of the world’s most sought-after resources as essential workers burned through billions of them. New research could lead to an N95 that you can recharge rather than throw away — or even one that continuously tops itself up for maximum e
SEC to investigate short-seller’s claims against Nikola, report says
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly looking into claims that Nikola Corp. is involved in an alleged “intricate fraud,” the latest development in a controversy that erupted last week just days after GM took an 11% stake in the newly public company.
Bloomberg reporte
Airtable’s Howie Liu has no interest in exiting, even as the company’s valuation soars
In the middle of a pandemic, Airtable, the low-code startup, has actually had an excellent year. Just the other day, the company announced it had raised $185 million on a whopping $2.585 billion valuation. It also announced some new features that take it from the realm of pure no-code and deeper in
The Black List’s Franklin Leonard on why picking winners doesn’t mean making losers
Tech and Hollywood don’t cross-pollinate that often, but when it comes to Franklin Leonard’s way of looking at things, maybe they should.
Leonard is best known as the creator of The Black List, a curated collection of the most underrated screenplays of the year. What began as a side pro
Leaked memo excoriates Facebook’s ‘slapdash and haphazard’ response to global political manipulation
A former Facebook data scientist dropped a detailed, damning memo on her last day there, calling the social network out for what she describes as an arbitrary, slow and generally inadequate response to fake accounts and activity affecting politics worldwide.
BuzzFeed News acquired the full memo and
Quantum startup CEO suggests we are only five years away from a quantum desktop computer
Today at technewss Disrupt 2020, leaders from three quantum computing startups joined technewss editor Frederic Lardinois to discuss the future of the technology. IonQ CEO and president Peter Chapman suggested we could be as little as five years away from a desktop quantum computer, but not every
As it heads for IPO, Palantir hires a chief accountant and gets approval from NYSE to trade
After 17 years, Palantir is getting closer and closer to its public debut later this month. We've been covering different facets of the company's direct listing process, including concerns about its governance and how insiders are accelerating the sale of their shares as the public markets
Snowflake and JFrog raise IPO ranges as tech markets stay hot
What market selloff?
Despite last week’s market declines, two big IPOs are rolling ahead this week, with Snowflake and JFrog both boosting their IPO price ranges this morning. The jump in expected pricing means each IPO will likely raise more capital, valuing the firms more richly than their
A bug in Joe Biden’s campaign app gave anyone access to millions of voter files
"attachment_2046046" aria-describedby="" style="width: 1024px">SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA – SEPTEMBER 11: A political poster favoring U.S. presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris is placed on a front lawn September 11, 2020 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. (Photo