WhatsApp now allows Singapore-based users to pay businesses within the app
[ad_1] After India and Brazil, WhatsApp is launching the ability to pay businesses within a chat in Singapore. Meta has partnered with Stripe to roll out the feature in the…
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Mastercard, PayPal and Robinhood dive deeper into crypto as industry shows ‘promise’
[ad_1] For TradFi, crypto is in a ‘transitionary period’ and needs more on-ramps Jacquelyn Melinek 14 hours As the crypto market works its way through a downturn, more incoming money…
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Optery using its new funding to evolve from data broker opt-outs to personal info platform
[ad_1] We can all agree that data brokers are creepy and bad, and that in this age they have feasted upon our personal information like never before. Opting out is…
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Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning
[ad_1] After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its…
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3one4 Capital, driven by contrarian bets, raises $200 million new fund
[ad_1] Partners of 3one4 Capital, a venture capital firm in India, recently went on a road show to raise a new fund. Within two and a half months, at the…
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The fintech space continues to be competitive and drama-filled
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Read More »This is why urchins are dying across the Caribbean
Sea urchins have been mysteriously dying off across the Caribbean since early 2022 and scientists may now know the reason: a single-celled marine microorganism called a scuticociliate. This is according…
Read More »Researchers have now solved how Mayans used their 819-day calendar
Researchers at Tulane University in Louisiana have solved the mystery of the 819-day calendar used by ancient Mayans. Using a 45-year span, the researchers were able to match the planetary…
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Amazon launches free channels, check marks come to Gmail and OpenAI raises more moolah
[ad_1] It’s that time of week again, folks — Week in Review (WiR) time. For those new to the scene, WiR is TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the biggest tech…
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The rise and changing role of chief product officers
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