Best Buy explains why it charged $42 for a case of water in Texas during the...
Social media lit up on Tuesday after a reporter posted a picture on Twitter that showed a Best Buy in Texas charging $42 for a case of Dasani water. The picture also showed the price for a case of...
View ArticleTumblr adds three useful ways to post from your mobile device
Now it’s even easier to make your point on the microblogging service. Tumblr keeps improving its mobile apps, adding to already useful features like photo filters, instant messaging, stickers and GIF...
View ArticleAs New Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Accepts the Job, Fresh Challenges Emerge
Even before he takes the job as Uber Technologies Inc.’s new chief executive, fresh challenges confront Expedia Inc. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, with news of a federal bribery probe into Uber and public...
View ArticleThe US Justice Department is investigating whether Uber violated...
Uber cofounder and former CEO Travis Kalanick Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images The US Department of Justice is looking into whether Uber violated laws involving the bribery of foreign...
View ArticleZeiss VR One Connect puts PC games on mobile VR headsets
PC-powered VR gaming requires a minimum $500 investment just for the headset, but Zeiss and Steam have introduced a cheaper way to do it. The Zeiss VR One Connect runs SteamVR games powered by a PC,...
View Article3Q 2017 PitchBook Fintech Analyst Note: Marketplace Lending
The online lending space has matured considerably since PitchBook initiated coverage last summer. At the time, the industry was still being rocked by scandal most notably at Lending Club, and...
View ArticleChinese Celebrity-Backed Fintech Firm Is Said to Pick IPO Banks
Quant, a financial technology firm backed by Chinese movie stars, has picked JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley to advise on a planned U.S. initial public offering that could raise about $200...
View ArticlePineBridge Hires Three To Launch Middle-Market Direct Lending Business
The new direct lending effort will expand PineBridge’s existing $ … in emerging and developed markets offering multi-asset, fixed income, equity and alternatives strategies to institutions, insurance...
View ArticleAlternative funder breaks lending record
An alternative funder based in Leeds and Manchester has broken its own record by lending £8m across 20 deals in ten days. Working with Leeds law firm Clarion, Reward Finance Group has provided funding...
View ArticleNEW REPORT: Faster Disbursement Services From Alt-Lending Players Put Banks...
But banks that still embrace older application processes are facing new competition from alternative SMB lenders, like OnDeck, which are positioning themselves as fast-acting alternatives to...
View ArticleAT&T brings fixed 5G trials to three more cities
The carrier wants to deliver 5G nationwide by late 2018. AT&T is expanding its fixed wireless 5G trials to new cities around the US in a bid to master the technology before its official standards...
View ArticleTax reform is a trap for Trump — just like healthcare
President Donald Trump’s tax-reform speech Wednesday will be “light on substance, heavy on populism,” Axios reports. Tax reform presents Republicans with traps extremely similar to the ones they did...
View ArticleBox’s stock is sinking after it served up a weak revenue forecast in Q2...
Box, the file sharing and storage company, beat Wall Street targets for Q2 revenue on Wednesday, but not without a little kerfuffle. While the company served up a weak financial forecast, its stock...
View ArticleMagic Leap’s rumored AR glasses may have been revealed in patent
The company denies that the designs are current, though. Magic Leap’s much-hyped augmented reality system has been an object of skepticism ever since the company was funded at a high level back in...
View ArticleHedge funds are cashing in on bitcoin mania — there are now 50 dedicated to...
Bitcoin themed balloons float in the air during the “Inside Bitcoins: The Future of Virtual Currency Conference” in New York. Reuters/Lucas Jackson The market for cryptocurrencies is red-hot, and...
View ArticleTransformational UK fintech
The UK has long held a much sought after position when it comes to financial services. There’s a huge strength of talent, access to capital, regulation and demand from consumers to high end...
View ArticleAmazon and Microsoft Want Their AI Assistants to Get Along
Alexa will soon be asking Cortana for the occasional favor. That’s thanks to a new initiative between Amazon and Microsoft, which will allow their respective voice assistants to call upon each other to...
View ArticleGlobal Zygomatic Dental Implants Market Report 2017
Global zygomatic dental implants sales market report 2017 has surfaced as one of the most promising markets in the pharmaceutical industry, thanks to the significant rise in research and development...
View ArticleUber’s new CEO: ‘This company has to change’
After a year full of PR crises and self-inflicted wounds, Uber is finally on the cusp of turning the page. Uber’s new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, met with the embattled startup’s employees for the first...
View ArticleTAB: Alternative Finance Remains Robust in Spite of Summer Downturn
According to the data platform, alternative finance remains robust even as their … main attributes that measure the market’s Scale (market volume), Efficiency (financing rate), and Transparency...
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