Pomelo stacks $40M to scale its payments infra business in LatAm
Argentinian payments infrastructure startup Pomelo has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding. The Buenos Aires-based company started in 2021 with the goal of giving fintechs and embedded finance players a way to launch virtual accounts and issue prepaid and credit cards via compliant onboarding processes. Pomelo went
Read moreNotion launches a stand-alone calendar app
Does the world need more calendar apps? That’s the first question that came to my mind when I heard that Notion, the incredibly popular note-taking and project management service, was launching a standalone calendar service. Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised, though, given that Notion acquired Cron, a rather smartly
Read moreLinkedIn rolls out new job search features to make it easier to find relevant opportunities
LinkedIn is rolling out new tools that are designed to help people find relevant job opportunities, the company announced on Wednesday. A new “Job Collections” feature will allow users to expand their job options by exploring collections of relevant jobs across a variety of industries and companies that they may
Read moreDeepMind’s latest AI can solve geometry problems
DeepMind, the Google AI R&D lab, believes that the key to more capable AI systems might lie in uncovering new ways to solve challenging geometry problems. To that end, DeepMind today unveiled AlphaGeometry — a system that the lab claims can solve as many geometry problems as the average International
Read moreA startup pitch is not a presentation and founders must understand the differences
Contrary to popular belief, a pitch is not a presentation. A presentation is a clearly defined event allotted a fixed amount of time. The audience sits back, expecting the presentation to start at a particular time and end at a specific time. The audience typically does not expect that it
Read moreHolidays are over, but don’t let employees’ guard drop over fake shipping emails
The December holidays are over, but don’t expect phony malware-filled shipping emails to stop being sent to your employees. In fact, researchers at Cofense say in a report released today, these phishing messages threaten several industries all year round and only increase slightly during holiday periods. These are messages with
Read moreFintech Market Predictions for 2024
The fintech industry is predicted to soar this year, in light of the increasing popularity of digital currencies like cryptocurrencies and CBDC, and the inevitable boom of e-commerce across Africa and the globe, it is a given that digital payment technologies are in high demand. Fintech can be seen as
Read moreAlphabet’s Wing supersizes delivery drones to ‘streamline’ big orders
Wing, the drone-powered delivery company operated by Alphabet, intends to introduce a larger craft capable of towing heavier packages to customers. The announcement follows Walmart’s move to expand its drone delivery offering in Dallas-Fort Worth. The retail behemoth said last week that three quarters of the items in its larger
Read morePSA: Anyone can tell if you are using WhatsApp on your computer
Anyone who knows your WhatsApp number can figure out if you are only using the mobile app, or its companion web or desktop apps, a security researcher found. Tal Be’ery, the co-founder and CTO of crypto wallet maker ZenGo, found that it’s possible to determine whether a user on WhatsApp
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