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| 18.06.2025 | Unlocking Your Potential: Affordable Pathways to Tech Mastery and Business Success | In today's fast-paced world, skills are currency. The tech landscape is evolving, and with it, the demand for proficient developers and savvy entrepreneurs. The good news? You don’t need a fortune to invest in your future. Two standout oppo... |
| 18.06.2025 | Transform Your Productivity with Affordable Software Solutions | In the fast-paced world of business, time is money. Entrepreneurs often find themselves juggling multiple tasks, from managing emails to creating presentations. The average entrepreneur clocks in over 52 hours a week, as reported by Shopify... |
| 13.06.2025 | Use This AI-Powered Platform to Turn Your Side Hustle into a Scalable Business Turn a side hustle into something sustainable with Sellful's ERP White Label plan. | Data from a survey done by Self Financial found that 45% of people have a side hustle in addition to holding a full-time position. From online reselling to freelance design or copywriting work, there are numerous opportunities that one coul... |
| 07.05.2025 | These College Friends Started a Side Hustle Out of 'Sheer Frustration.' It Did $1 Million in the First 9 Months and $20 Million in Year 4. Courtney Toll and Annabel Love came up with their business id... | This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features 29-year-olds Courtney Toll and Annabel Love, the co-founders of Nori. They launched Nori Press, a compact steam iron, in 2021 and did $1 million in revenue in the first nine months. They've double... |
| 23.04.2025 | Grab a Lifetime of Help for All Aspects of Business Operations for You and Your Clients This white label platform offers everything your business needs from marketing, accounting, HR, e-commerce and s... | More than 80% of small businesses have no employees, according to business banking specialist North One. Fortunately, you don't really need any when you have a plan that combines everything you need to run your business in just one AI-power... |
| 10.04.2025 | Fern gets $9M in funding to automate the creation and maintenance of software development kits
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One click below supports o... | A startup called Fern is on a mission to simplify the maintenance of software development kits and their associated documentation after raising $9 million in an early-stage round of funding today.
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| 12.03.2025 | Five years on, has Covid really changed the way we work? | - |
| 06.03.2025 | The AI Funding Landscape: A Shifting Paradigm | The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is a bustling marketplace. It's a realm where innovation meets investment, and the stakes are sky-high. In this dynamic environment, the recent acquisition of Weights & Biases by CoreWeave stand... |
| 05.03.2025 | CoreWeave to Acquire Weights & Biases – Industry Leading AI Developer Platform | Acquisition to create end-to-end platform for AI labs and enterprises to bring new innovations to market faster
CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Weights & Biases, a leading AI develo... |
| 24.02.2025 | Sellful: Automate and Grow Your Business With a Strong Brand Identity | TL;DR: With Sellful, you can create a white-label website, automate communication and outreach, and so much more — all with help from AI for $399 for life (regular price is $23,940.00).
Every small business owner or entrepreneur knows that ... |
| 14.02.2025 | The Rise of Buy Now, Pay Later: A Double-Edged Sword for Consumers and Merchants | In the world of consumer finance, Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) has emerged as a game-changer. It’s like a shiny new toy that promises instant gratification. You see something you want, and with a few clicks, it’s yours. But what lies beneath t... |
| 12.02.2025 | Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) Explained: Benefits, Risks, & How It Works | Key takeaways:
BNPL is an alternative payment method that offers customers installment options at checkout for their purchases.
Many BNPL platforms can integrate with most e-commerce websites.
Businesses with a BNPL payment option see an in... |
| 26.12.2024 | Credit Card Processing Fees & Rates Explained | While we’re not completely cashless yet—I still pay for my morning coffee and tip my barista in cash—it’s certainly trending that way. That’s why, as a business, it’s important to think about credit card payment processing and not only how ... |
| 24.12.2024 | The Future of Retail: How Technology is Transforming the Shopping Experience | The retail landscape is evolving. Technology is the wind beneath its wings. From point-of-sale systems to artificial intelligence, the way we shop is changing. The latest trends in retail technology are not just enhancements; they are revol... |
| 24.12.2024 | The Future of E-Commerce: Why Experimentation is Key to Success | In the fast-paced world of e-commerce, standing still is akin to moving backward. As brands navigate rising ad costs and unpredictable consumer behavior, the need for innovative strategies has never been more pressing. Experimentation is th... |
| 23.12.2024 | Latest POS Trends Shaping Retail and Hospitality Industries | POS technology has impacted the retail industry far and wide ever since its debut in the 1970s. Before the modern POS system, transactions were manual, cash-based, and tangible. However, with the advent of technology, the POS has changed ho... |
| 30.10.2024 | Roadmap For Exits: How AI Startups Can Break Through | 11 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
By Priya Saiprasad
It’s no surprise that the AI market has skyrocketed in recent years, with venture capital investments in artificial intelligence totaling $332 billion since 2019, per Crunchbase d... |
| 22.10.2024 | Stripe's Bold Leap into Crypto: A $1.1 Billion Bet on Bridge | In a move that echoes the growing convergence of traditional finance and digital currencies, Stripe has announced its acquisition of the stablecoin platform Bridge for a staggering $1.1 billion. This deal, confirmed by both companies, marks... |
| 21.10.2024 | Stripe in $1.1B Acquisition Deal for Stablecoin Platform Bridge
Allocating a Portfolio With Canary Capital Group CEO | Looking to advance its cryptocurrency ambitions, payments processor Stripe has finalized a deal to buy stablecoin platform Bridge for $1.1 billion, according to a Sunday X post from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington and later confirmed b... |
| 19.09.2024 | Mangopay anuncia Sergi Herrero como novo CEO e mira expansão global | Herrero, conhecido no setor de fintechs, assume o cargo com ampla experiência, tendo ocupado posições de destaque na Meta, Square e BNP Paribas. Ele liderará a Mangopay em um momento crucial, quando a empresa busca acelerar seu crescimento ... |
| 22.08.2024 | I Have Helped Founders Raise Millions. Here Are 7 Fundraising Mistakes I See Many Startups Making — And What You Need To Do Instead. Sometimes, success comes down to saying a sentence the "right&... | With U.S. venture capital fundraising at a 6-year low, raising investor capital for your startup has become more challenging than ever. Potential investors are tightening their budgets and adopting a "wait and see" approach before... |
| 22.05.2024 | Payments platform Zeller unveils $10,000 grant program to help Aussie regional businesses | Catherine and Barry Norman of Fusspots at Inglewood. Source: Supplied. article-article-body
Four small businesses based in regional Australia will be given the opportunity to unlock and unleash their full potential this year, with Australia... |
| 11.04.2024 | How to Make a QR Code: 7 Ways to Generate QR Codes | QR codes let people access information with a smartphone; instead of typing a URL, you point your smartphone camera at a QR barcode and tap to scan. There are two types of QR codes: One links to one set location on the web (known as a stati... |
| 15.03.2024 | Dogecoin Founder Questions Sanity of Crypto Holders | - |
| 18.11.2023 | Q&A with Omega Venture Partners: What We Look For in AI Startups | Q. How do you define Artificial Intelligence?
A: We view Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI / ML or just AI) as a powerful enabler and source of unfair advantage, which has reached an inflection point.
Our focus is on backin... |
| 02.03.2020 | Activist investors want to crank up the Twitter revenue machine | When Elliott Management, a New York investment firm with an activist approach, sets its sights on a company, it usually means it has been under-performing, and it sees a ton of unmet potential. News broke on Friday that the company had boug... |
| 01.05.2019 | Square reports Q1 sales of $489M, up 59%, but net loss widens to $38M | After Square issued weak guidance in Q4, all eyes were on the payments company to see what kind of growth it really had in Q1. Results reported today underscored some of the challenges the company is facing.
Square’s adjusted revenues were ... |
| 25.02.2019 | While Community Bankers Bash Square’s Attempt to Become a Bank, Hope Rises for Fintechs and the ILC Application Process | There has been growing chatter that Square (NYSE: SQ) may soon receive approval regarding their application to become an Industrial Loan Company (ILC) which is similar to a bank. The change of leadership at the FDIC has set a more positive ... |
| 23.05.2018 | Square brings its Stand for iPad tablets to the UK | Square, the company that provides payments and other business services to merchants, is today taking another step in its gradual expansion outside of the U.S. Stand — one of Square’s key pieces of hardware, turning an iPad into a point of s... |
| 13.12.2017 | Commerce platform iZettle raises $47M at a $950M valuation | iZettle — the commerce platform based out of Stockholm that competes against companies like Square, Paypal and SumUp to provide card transactions using smartphones and tablets as well as related accounting services — has raised another €40 ... |
| 28.03.2017 | Square finally opens for business in the UK, its first market in Europe | Almost a year after setting up a UK business entity called Squareup Europe, today the payments company Square is officially opening up for business in the UK, marking its first move into Europe and its fifth country after Canada, Japan, Aus... |
| 08.03.2017 | Veem, formerly Align Commerce, gets $24M from GV, others for its Venmo for SMBs | Remittances — the business of money transfers — is a fragmented and huge market, currently estimated to be worth some $25 trillion annually. Now, one of the more interesting startups in the field — which combines “alternative” financial rai... |
| 01.11.2016 | Square reports $439 million in revenue for Q3 2016 as gross payment volume jumps 39% | Square ($SQ) has released the results of its third quarter financial earnings, revealing that it generated $439 million in net revenue, up 32 percent annually, but had a net income loss of $32 million. Its Gross Payment Volume (GPV) now sta... |
| 01.11.2016 | Square reports $439 million in revenue for Q3 2016 as gross payment volume jumps 39% | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Square ($SQ) has released the results of its thir... |
| 26.09.2016 | Square updates contactless and chip reader to cut transaction speed by 25% | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Square has released an update to its contactless and chip reader to expedite the speed at which transactions are processed. The softwar... |
| 29.08.2016 | Square extends platform further with TouchBistro and Vend point-of-sale integrations | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Square is extending its platform further into the... |
| 20.07.2016 | Square quietly sets up for a UK launch, now takes payments in pounds on Square Register | The UK is sometimes called a nation of shopkeepers, and soon mobile payments company Square may be putting that to the test in the search for new business.
Square Register — the company’s point of sale app used by merchants to manage their ... |
| 04.05.2016 | How consolidations will play out in the transportation, food and entertainment industries | Arthur O'Keefe Contributor
Arthur O'Keefe is the CFO at Movile.
Out of the ashes of its predecessor the phoenix is born. People forget that the Hype Cycle exists because rational people with good vision see opportunity. Often the vision is ... |
| 30.03.2016 | Square’s new platform lets sellers build customized apps on top of its payment service | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Square has started to think beyond what it can do... |
| 30.03.2016 | Square’s new platform lets sellers build customized apps on top of its payment service | Square has started to think beyond what it can do in the commerce space. During the company’s Q4 2015 earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey acknowledged that his company wouldn’t be able to build everything, “so we opened up a bunch of APIs, and i... |
| 25.02.2016 | 10 Insanely Successful Hardware Startups | If you are a hardware entrepreneur I'm betting you could probably use a little inspiration. I mean, everyone knows that hardware is really hard, right?
So to give you a little motivation boost I'm going to share with you 10 examples of othe... |
| 19.11.2015 | Square Opens At $11.20, Up 24% On Its IPO Price Of $9, Raising $243M | Square made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange this morning with a little pop. Trading as $SQ, the payments company opened at $11.20 per share and continued climbing. Last night the company priced its IPO at $9, an offering that raise... |
| 14.10.2015 | Square’s deal with Starbucks is a bust, and will end in Q3 next year | In 2012, Square formed a partnership with Starbucks that ranked among the biggest of the payments company’s history. Starbucks invested $25 million into Square, which has, in turn, helped customers process payments at its thousands of locat... |
| 05.10.2015 | Twitter Names Jack Dorsey CEO, Adam Bain Becomes COO, Dick Costolo Steps Down From Board | After four months of running under Jack Dorsey href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2015/06/11/twitter-announces-ceo-dick-costolo-stepping-down-jack-dorsey-named-interim-ceo/#.zewlyd:0DwH">interim chief executive, today Twitter fi... |
| 16.09.2015 | Lightspeed POS Raises $61M To Boost Its Retail And Restaurant Sales System | As Square gears up for a public listing that may come as soon as next month, another startup that makes point-of-sale systems for restaurants and other retailers has raised a big round of funding.
Lightspeed POS, a startup based out of Cana... |
| 30.06.2015 | Square Launches Payroll Product For Small Businesses, Pricing Starts At $25/Month | Mobile payment startup Square has been gradually building out the products it offers to small businesses to position itself as a one-stop shop for their various front-of-house and back-office needs. Today sees the latest development on that... |
| 08.06.2015 | Square’s Launch of New Reader Will Greatly Increase Apple Pay Availability | At this year's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple announced that Square has created a new wireless card reader that will enable businesses everywhere to now accept Apple Pay and other contactless payments. At the same time,... |
| 27.02.2015 | Shammika Munugoda – founder of Boomeringo | Shammika Munugoda, founder of Boomeringo, is a software engineer who has over a decade of experience in the software, web and mobile app industry.
In 2005 Shammika arrived in Melbourne as an international student from Sri Lanka. Being an in... |
| 06.01.2015 | Square Cash Integrates Touch ID To Send Money Using Your Fingerprint | Square Cash, Square’s Venmo competitor that lets you use the app to transfer money to other people, has added a new feature to its iOS app that some might say is long overdue: users can now authenticate money transfers using the Touch ID fe... |
| 04.12.2014 | Four Months After Acquisition, Square Launches iOS App For Food Delivery Service Caviar | Over the summer, Square purchased food delivery startup Caviar. Today, it’s making ordering on the service even easier with the launch of a mobile app.
Square announced the acquisition of the curated food delivery service in August for a re... |
| 19.11.2014 | Square Register, Sans Payments And Hardware, Now Works Globally On Android And iOS | Last week, when Square started pre-orders for new chip-based card-reading hardware to upgrade its older mag-stripe readers, we noted that it seemed only a matter of time before the company would finally turn on more international services, ... |
| 08.10.2014 | Square’s Order App Can Now Predict When You’ll Arrive To Pick Up Your Cappuccino | If are a techie who lives in San Francisco, you probably know what a miserable experience it is to wait in line at Blue Bottle in Mint Plaza with all the other techies in San Francisco. Well, payments startup Square wants to make it easier ... |
| 07.10.2014 | Square Cash For iOS Now Lets You Send Money To Nearby Friends Via Bluetooth | Square Cash, the payments company’s mobile money app and competitor to Venmo, has today rolled out a new update that lets users send cash by way of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Called “Nearby Payments,” this new feature works on devices runn... |
| 04.09.2014 | In A Business Platform Play, Square Adds Sales Tax Reporting Through TaxJar | Mobile payment company Square is today adding another integration that highlights its strategy to expand the kinds of services it offers to small businesses, in a bid to go beyond payments and position itself as a business platform. It will... |
| 26.08.2014 | Square Cash update means you can now pay by text | Just when you thought PayPal-owned Venmo had the corner on fast and easy payments, Square dropped a new function in its Cash app — pay by text.
With this update, people can send or request money from anyone in their address book just by usi... |
| 11.08.2014 | Square Targets Small Business With Launch Of Online Booking Tool “Square Appointments” | Continuing its expansion beyond mobile payments, Square this morning has rolled out Square Appointments, an online appointment booking service aimed at small businesses, like beauty and hair salons, and other individuals looking to connect ... |
| 22.07.2014 | PayPal Expands Its Working Capital Service To UK, Switches From Loans To Cash Advances | As payments platforms look for more ways to grow their margins and usage among businesses, they continue to push into a wider and deeper range of financial services. In one of the latest moves, eBay’s PayPal is expanding its Working Capital... |
| 16.05.2014 | New Google Glass App Lets You Nod To Pay With Bitcoin, Will Add Dollars This Summer | While Google may be working on adding Google Wallet to Glass, and other big payment players are “eyeing up” (!) ways of integrating into Google’s computing headgear, a Dutch startup has beaten them to the punch.
Eaze is a new app, out in be... |
| 13.05.2014 | Square Launches A $10 Per Month Customer Feedback Tool For Sellers | Square continues to reach for additional revenue streams with today’s announcement of yet another new product called Square Feedback – a tool that turns a company’s digital receipts into a customer feedback and polling solution. The company... |
| 08.05.2014 | As Square Struggles, European Payments Rival iZettle Takes Another $55.5M In Funding | As mobile payment startup Square faces reports that it’s delaying an IPO amid growth problems and other pressures, iZettle, the Swedish mobile payments company that has been referred to as the Square of Europe, has raised another €40 millio... |
| 10.04.2014 | 12 Powerful Ways Data Can Help Clean Up Your Finances | With the deadline of financial spring cleaning looming large, it’s only natural to panic at the hopeless money morass you’re wading through. Or maybe you’re on your financial game but looking for a more granular way to keep tabs on your ban... |
| 13.02.2014 | Square Cash unveils ‘request’ feature for collecting money over email | We all have that mooch friend that always neglects to pay us back or contribute their fair share.
Square introduced a new feature to Square Cash today that enables you to request money from anyone else via email. No longer must we operate i... |
| 13.02.2014 | Square Cash unveils ‘request’ feature for collecting money over email | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We all have that mooch friend that always neglects to pay us back or contribute their fair share.
Square introduced a new feature to Sq... |
| 13.02.2014 | Already Handling Millions Of Dollars Per Week, Square Cash Now Lets You Request Money By Email | Square launched Square Cash last fall as a simple way to send money to people via email. All you have to do is send the recipient an email with the amount in the subject line and Cc: [email protected]
As mentioned at the time, Google had pr... |
| 29.01.2014 | Ribbon Takes On Square Cash, PayPal & Others With A Peer-To-Peer Payments Service That Lets You Send Money For Free | Payment company Ribbon, which to date has offered a merchant-facing tool that allows its users to set up a quick-and-easy checkout page on their own sites or share checkout links via social media, is today getting into the business of peer-... |
| 04.11.2013 | To Ring Up More Small Merchant Users, Square Inks Deal With Staples To Sell Square Stand Register Replacement In The U.S. | Square has made it into the so-called Unicorn Club of startups with a $1 billion+ valuation, but to make sure it doesn’t get kicked out, the company continues to take its services and sales channels into new arenas. Today, it’s announcing a... |
| 25.10.2013 | Why Walmart and your corner store may eventually use the same cloud tech | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is a guest post by Signpost chief executive ... |
| 25.10.2013 | Why Walmart and your corner store may eventually use the same cloud tech | This is a guest post by Signpost chief executive Stuart Wall
It’s no secret that corporate giants like Walmart, Amazon, and McDonalds benefit from huge IT budgets, and advanced technology solutions. They use modern technology to parse throu... |
| 16.10.2013 | Pay your friends via email with Square Cash | Unlike other services, Cash requires no sign ups, no specific email, and doesn't do stored accounts
Moochers of the world, consider yourself warned. Your freeloading days are over. Your excuse that you left your wallet at home will fly no m... |
| 16.10.2013 | Square drastically simplifies Internet cash transfers | The screen where users enter their debit card information. reader comments 90 with 65 posters participating
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| 15.10.2013 | Square Cash Goes Head To Head With Venmo And Google Wallet To Allow Anyone To Send Money Via Email | Square today is formally launching Square Cash, a product that allows anyone to send money to a contact via email. Square initially soft-launched the product to a limited number of users earlier this year but is opening the service more bro... |
| 24.09.2013 | Intuit Integrates Its QuickBooks Accounting Software With Square’s Point Of Sale Products, Via An API Deal | Earlier today Intuit announced a completely new version of its QuickBooks accounting software, and to kick it off, it’s also announcing a new, and rather groundbreaking, partnership. It is integrating with mobile payments juggernaut Square,... |
| 16.08.2013 | Square Fined $507K In Florida For Operating A Mobile Payment Service Without A Money Transmitter License | A little more state-specific financial regulatory hot water for Square, the hot mobile commerce startup: it has been fined $507,000 by Florida’s Office of Financial Regulation for operating a payment service without a money transmission lic... |
| 05.08.2013 | Olacabs Makes Live Traffic Heatmaps In India To Solve Its Cab Problem | Getting a cab in Mumbai isn’t the same as it is in other countries, according to one of the taxi app startups in India.
Olacabs‘ co-founder, Bhavish Aggarwal, said it’s harder to flag down a cab in India’s financial capital because there ar... |
| 09.07.2013 | SumUp Adds Spanish Bank BBVA To Its Latest Groupon/AmEx Round, Follows Mobile Payment Rival iZettle To South America | As mobile payments company Square looks to online commerce for the next chapter of its growth with Square Market, its rivals in Europe continue to push geographical boundaries into the New World. Today, Germany’s SumUp announced that it wil... |
| 18.06.2013 | iZettle Takes Its Mobile Payment Service To Mexico, Its First Market Outside Of Europe, And One Step Closer To Square | iZettle, the mobile payments company that has been described as a European version of Square, is today making a move that places it one national boundary away from the U.S. mobile payment company’s own backyard: iZettle is launching its iOS... |
| 21.05.2013 | The mysterious Square Cash, Square's new P2P service | Peer-to-peer mobile payments is gaining more players. Last week, Google announced the ability to send funds to anyone using Gmail and a Google Wallet account.
Now it looks like Square is getting into the game.
Drew Olanoff from TechCrunch f... |
| 14.05.2013 | PayPal’s Cash For Registers Tries To Outdo Square And Groupon With Its Own Bid To Rule The Register | PayPal today announced Cash for Registers to encourage merchants to switch to PayPal-powered point-of-sale solutions. The program is part of the payment giant’s bid to be the kingpin among local merchants looking for lower-cost ways of acce... |
| 13.05.2013 | Groupon Squares Up To Rivals With Groupon POS, An iPad App And Dashboard For On-Site, Mobile Payments | Groupon is once again expanding its portfolio of mobile payment services, putting it in closer competition with the likes of Square and PayPal’s here targeting local merchants: today it has released Groupon POS, which appears to be an iPad-... |
| 24.03.2013 | The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable: Full Video And Transcript | This past week, TechCrunch TV was honored to host an intimate roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
The idea behind this was that while there has been a lot... |
| 22.03.2013 | The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 4: Are We Our Own Worst Enemies? | Welcome back for the last segment of our roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
In part one, posted Tuesday, we discussed the controversy surrounding Lean In... |
| 21.03.2013 | The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 3: Linking Up With Real Mentors — And The Right Life Partner | Welcome back for part three of our four-part roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
In part one, posted Tuesday, we discussed the controversy surrounding Lea... |
| 20.03.2013 | The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 2: Guilt And The Myth Of Doing It All | As we mentioned yesterday, we took an in-depth look at Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead with a number of Generation Y women who are part of the Silicon Valley’s rising new guard. “You start ... |
| 20.03.2013 | Pinterest Acquires Livestar, The Mobile Recommendations Startup Founded By Fritz Lanman | Pinterest said today it’s acquired Livestar, the mobile recommendations app founded by Microsoft alum Fritz Lanman, who is also a noted angel investor who has backed the likes of Square, Getaround, and, as it happens, Pinterest.
Terms of th... |
| 19.03.2013 | The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 1: Controversy, Fear, And How To Fight It | There has been a lot of buzz about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, which made its chart-topping debut in bookstores on March 11th.
Many reporters, thought leaders and others have weighed i... |
| 15.02.2013 | Berlusconi Outed As Investor In Square Clone Payleven While Rocket Internet’s Zappos Clone Zalando Hits Breakeven | A double-dose of details today about the normally secretive e-commerce startups incubated by the Samwer bothers-backed Rocket Internet. Silvio Berlusconi was outed as one of the key investors in Square clone Payleven; and Zalando, inspired ... |
| 15.02.2013 | No such thing as dumb technical luck | When building products for the internet, no one builds ‘everything’ from scratch.
Web services are almost always a mash-up of existing technologies and third party services that come together to form a product.
A good example of this is Squ... |
| 21.01.2013 | Dollars for dongles: European version of Square closes round | Dongles are all the rage these days. I say that with a straight face. And by straight, I mean at least two giggles popped out. But seriously, dongles.
Payleven is a payments startup based in Germany that turns mobile devices into point-of-s... |
| 21.01.2013 | Funding Daily: MLK, 49ers, and the First Family | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Four years ago today, I was standing on the roof ... |
| 21.01.2013 | Dollars for dongles: European version of Square closes round | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Dongles are all the rage these days. I say that with a straight face. And by straight, I mean at least two giggles popped out. But seri... |
| 31.12.2012 | Silicon Valley VCs predict 2013 trends: Space, robots, self-driving cars | As the year draws to an end, Silicon Valley investors are looking for the next wave of technology after social networking.
VentureBeat spoke to a slew of the top players at well-known West Coast institutions — the founding team at Stanford ... |
| 13.12.2012 | ‘European Square’ iZettle Expands To Spain, Taking Total Markets To Seven | The mobile payments landgrab is on in Europe. Today, iZettle announced that it is now open for business in Spain, taking its total number of markets to seven. The company, which has received $46.7 million in backing from companies and VCs t... |
| 03.12.2012 | Make Way For Another Mobile Payment POSsibility: Shuttle By Adyen Launches Across All Of Europe | Competition in the nascent market for point-of-sale mobile payments gets a little more crowded today. Adyen, a Holland-based e-commerce specialist, is today launching Shuttle (pun intended). As the backend payments provider for companies li... |
| 28.11.2012 | The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn’t The Problem At Groupon | In February of this year, Groupon acquired Adku, an e-commerce data targeting startup staffed with a whip-smart technical team. It was one of a series of acqui-hire deals Groupon executed as part of its strategy to staff up its Silicon Vall... |
| 10.09.2012 | Keynote speaker Jack Dorsey admits: ‘I never wanted to be an entrepreneur’ | “I never wanted to be an entrepreneur,” Jack Dorsey revealed during his keynote at DisruptSF to an audience of technology entrepreneurs. He dreamed of being a surrealist artist, a tailor, or a sailor. For him, entrepreneurship lies at the i... |
| 10.09.2012 | Keynote speaker Jack Dorsey admits: ‘I never wanted to be an entrepreneur’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“I never wanted to be an entrepreneur,” Jack Dors... |
| 23.08.2012 | SumUp launches with huge financial backing | The Dublin-, London- and Berlin-based Mobile payment startup SumUp recently closed a Series A funding round and has now officially launched its service. The young company secured about $20 million from Shortcut Ventures, b-to-v Partners, Te... |
| 19.07.2012 | Mary Meeker: New Job, But Still Queen Of The 'Net | |
| 31.05.2012 | Kleiner Perkins Adds Megan Quinn, Former Products Director At Square, As Newest Investment Partner | Megan Quinn, the web exec who most recently served as the Director of Products at credit card processing tech firm Square, has joined Sand Hill Road venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as an investment partner. The hir... |
| 17.05.2012 | Postmates Debuts ‘Get It Now’ iPhone App To Bring On-Demand Couriers To All Of SF | One of the things that people who move away from New York City lament is the lack of delivery services elsewhere. In the Big Apple, you can famously get pretty much any kind of food — or anything else really — delivered straight to your doo... |
