Apple is reportedly working on a pay later feature for Apple Pay
If you've done any online shopping in the last little while, there's a good chance you've run into services like Affirm and PayPal's Pay in 4. They allow you to purchase something and pay for it later by splitting up the total cost of the item into several installments.
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Gogo in-flight internet has been renamed Intelsat
The next time you’re on a plane, searching for a Wi-Fi connection while soaring thousands of feet above the ground, don’t look for the Gogo name. The longstanding standard of in-flight internet, Gogo Commercial Aviation, has been rebranded to Intelsat.
Intelsat, an international satelli
Nas Academy raises $11 million to help creators build their own MasterClass-like courses
Investors are buying into a creator-led future, and Nas Academy wants to turn that creator influence into a broad network of “virtual universities.”
The Singapore startup is building out a platform for creators to monetize their knowledge, giving them the tools to create their own class
Zero’s FXE offers electric motorcycle fun in a slightly new package
Zero Motorcycles has been around for over a decade and in that time it's consistently improved its fleet of electric bikes. With the new FXE, the northern California company has taken the thoroughly enjoyable FXS supermoto and transformed it into something a bit more futuristic looking with a n
Beyond Pride: The fight against tech's brogrammer culture
I was 4 years old when I started playing what I've come to think of as “the game.” It was dressing-up time at school, and, as I ran over to a costume box, my teacher grabbed me by the shoulders. Right up in my face, she admonished: “That's the girls' box — the boys' stuff is
The 36 questions that lead to love (but with your co-founder)
After months of beta testing, Y Combinator has launched a co-founder matching platform. The platform invites entrepreneurs to create profiles, which include information about themselves and preferences for a co-founder, such as location and skill sets. It digests that information and offers a numbe
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Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt
From the outside looking in, the construction industry appears ripe for tech innovation. The industry represents 6.3% of the U.S. GDP. There are close to 1 million general contractors (GCs) in the country, and anywhere between 3 million and 5 million workers on job sites every day.
Meanwhile, there
This startup just created a fast, accurate COVID test that only needs saliva and links to an app
We’re entering a phase in the COVID-19 pandemic where transmission is going to go through the roof because of the Delta variant. But as vaccinations ramp up around the world, the main cost to society now will not be the health services being overwhelmed, but mass disruption to businesses as s
Biden’s sweeping executive order takes on Big Tech’s ‘bad mergers,’ ISPs and more
The Biden administration just introduced a sweeping, ambitious plan to forcibly inject competition into some consolidated sectors of the American economy — the tech sector prominent among them — through executive action.
“Today President Biden is taking decisive action to reduce the trend
Frontier launches with $2.8M round by NFX, to let low-skilled job candidates book their own interview
Frontier, which bills itself as a “new kind of vertically integrated jobs marketplace” launches today with a $2.8 million investment round led by NFX in the U.S., and backed by London's firstminute Capital, FJ Labs, Cyan Banister, Ilkka Pannanen, Alex Bouaziz, Liquid 2 and several other fun
Day two: Don't miss today's pitch-off at TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising
And just like that, it's day two of TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising! Yesterday not only flew by in a blur — it was also certifiably off the hook. We hope you came away with new information, actionable advice that you can implement in your business right away and that you connec
Kurly, the Korean grocery startup, raises $200M on a $2.2B valuation after shifting IPO plans away from the NYSE
Online grocery startups around the world continue to pull in major investment, underscoring how much they have all grown — especially in the last year of pandemic living. In the latest development, Kurly — a startup in South Korea that provides next-day grocery delivery services across the
Firat Ileri becomes Hummingbird VC’s new managing partner, as the firm looks to expand
Seed investment firm Hummingbird VC, which previously invested in Deliveroo, Peak Games, MarkaVIP, and Kraken has a new managing partner. Firat Ileri, previously a partner — who at 28 became one of Europe's youngest VCs when he joined in 2012 — takes over managing the team from founding par