Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi Deanna Ritchie / Oct 12, 2023 Jack Dorsey, the founder of Block — which used to be Square — has now acquired Hifi, a music-focused fintech startup. HiFi was launched in the US in 2020. Matt Pincus joined the HiFi board and became an investor in the … Continue reading Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi
X tests three paid subscription tiers amid ongoing financial woes Details are scant, but it looks like this will determine how many ads you see. Lawrence Bonk Fri, Oct 6, 2023 Unsplash/Kelly Sikkema The rumor that X, formerly known as Twitter, is going to integrate more paid services continues to persist, with Bloomberg reporting … Continue reading X tests three paid subscription tiers amid ongoing financial woes
10 Financial Planning Mistakes Couples Make When Shacking Up ValueWalk / Sep 14, 2023 Now more than ever before, young people are shacking up with their partners in an attempt to save more money as costs continue to climb, and the housing market out-prices the majority of younger first-time buyers. One Realtor.com study of roughly 3,009 … Continue reading 10 Financial Planning Mistakes Couples Make When Shacking Up
Twitter CEO teases banking and payment plans in memo about X rebrand Karissa Bell @karissabe Twitter’s rebrand to X is officially underway, and CEO Linda Yaccarino has offered some new clues about what it may mean for the company. In a memo reported by CNBC, Yaccarino suggested that payments and banking features … Continue reading Twitter’s rebrand to X could worsen its legal and financial problems
26 Ways to Simplify Your Financial Life – While Saving Astronomical Amounts of Money Due / 10 May 2023 Interested in simplifying your financial life? You’re not alone. After all, most people’s finances are too complicated. As a result, other parts of their lives get affected. Procrastination and stress are the results of a messy … Continue reading 26 Ways to Simplify Your Financial Life – While Saving Astronomical Amounts of Money
Google Partners With AI Company Anthropic, Reportedly Makes Financial Investment by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, February 5, 2023 Google’s partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic as a preferred cloud provider, announced Friday, includes a financial investment, very similar to Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI. While the post on the Google Cloud blog did not mention Google’s … Continue reading Google Partners With AI Company Anthropic, Reportedly Makes Financial Investment
Arrival pauses work on its electric bus and car projects The company reportedly needs to manage its dwindling cash pile. Daniel Cooper|@danielwcooper Anglo-American EV startup Arrival is putting its groundbreaking bus and car projects on ice as it struggles to manage its cash reserves. The Financial Times reports that the company, which … Continue reading Arrival CEO steps back amidst the electric van startup’s financial woes
By Jude Cramer November 22, 2022 Popular tax filing services such as TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block have been quietly sharing sensitive information about their users—including names, email addresses, income, filing status, refund amounts, and dependents’ college scholarship amounts—with Facebook, via a widespread code called the Meta Pixel. A new report from The Markup, … Continue reading Tax prep software companies shared customers’ private financial data with Facebook, says new report
Protect What You’ve Earned: 7 Ways to Safeguard Your Financial Investments Due / 03 Nov 2022 Society has come under a unique amount of stress in recent years. So have plenty of financial investments. A pandemic created economic disruption around the globe. The “Great Resignation” put pressure on businesses—pressure that those companies have passed along to … Continue reading Protect What You’ve Earned: 7 Ways to Safeguard Your Financial Investments
Hitting the Books: How Southeast Asia’s largest bank uses AI to fight financial fraud Machine learning is streamlining traditional, rules-based money laundering investigations. A. Tarantola @terrortola DBS Bank: AI-Driven Transaction Surveillance Yes, robots are coming to take our jobs. That’s a good thing, we should be happy they are because those jobs they’re taking … Continue reading How Southeast Asia’s largest bank uses AI to fight financial fraud
