Former Caribou founder launches Further, a fintech that’s focused on helping people buy homes
Buying a home has always been complicated. You have to figure out how much money to put down and how that down payment will affect a monthly mortgage bill. Then there are the closing costs and fees. Kevin Bennett launched Further to try to help make the financial process easier
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Read moreAesar Tonkin on Safeguarding Sensitive Info in E-Commerce
Consumers are prioritizing the best deals and chasing the sales before they end. However, the chase comes with risk – the faster consumers move towards the deals, the less attention they pay to security and verifying a website’s authenticity. This means, as an online business, this is the perfect time
Read moreHow a creator of React is rethinking IDEs
Tom Occhino, now Chief Product Officer at Vercel, tells Ben about how he contributed to the development of React at Facebook and the contentious decision to make React open-source. They also talk about what community feedback has been like on Next.js 15, Vercel’s GenAI web development tool, and how Vercel
Read moreIndonesia blocks Google Pixel sales after ban on iPhone 16
Indonesia has banned sales of Google Pixel smartphones for failing to meet domestic content requirements, days after blocking Apple’s iPhone 16 in Southeast Asia’s largest phone market. The Indonesian Ministry of Industry said Google’s phones cannot be traded until they comply with rules requiring 40% local content in smartphones sold
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