Paying $115B for Stripe or $77B for Coinbase might be quite rational
It's hard to overvalue a startup when the public market is willing to double its valuation the moment it starts to trade. CoinDesk reported yesterday that crypto trading startup Coinbase is being valued at $77 billion on private exchanges......»»
How Much Dell Pays Engineers, Analysts and Salespeople
With over 158,000 employees, Dell is one of the largest employers in tech -- and it's expanding its ranks. To find out how much Dell is paying new hires, Business Insider analyzed salaries of approved H-1B visas published by the US Office of Foreign.....»»
Best cheap camera 2021: the 14 finest budget cameras you can buy
Looking to avoid paying top dollar for the latest snappers? These are the best cheap cameras around right now......»»
New Study Finds Ridesharing Actually Increases Pollution, Congestion
Greg Bensinger of the New York Times editorial board argues ridesharing companies haven't delivered on their promises of well-paying driver jobs with less traffic congestion (let alone their predictions of an end to car ownership — or even of a.....»»
How Coinbase Phishers Steal One-Time Passwords
An anonymous reader quotes a report from from Krebs on Security: A recent phishing campaign targeting Coinbase users shows thieves are getting smarter about phishing one-time passwords (OTPs) needed to complete the login process. It also shows that p.....»»
Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support
Payments company Stripe has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. CoinDesk reports: The team -- described in LinkedIn posts and job listings -- will be run by Guillaume Poncin, Stripe's former head of engin.....»»
Coinbase is Launching a Marketplace for NFTs
Coinbase is getting into NFTs. The cryptocurrency exchange said Tuesday it plans to launch a marketplace that lets users mint, collect and trade NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. From a report: Users can sign up to a waitlist for early access to the feat.....»»
Is It Time to Stop Paying For a VPN?
"I'm done with paying for a virtual private network," writes the New York Times' lead consumer technology writer. [Alternate URLs here and here.] The reality is that web security has improved so much in the last few years that VPN services, which cha.....»»
Paying for a Sky Glass TV is already way too confusing
If you want to weigh up all of the Sky Glass TV packages you'll have to compare 576 options based on TV size, content selection and payment method......»»
Half-Life Alyx"s "No VR" mod continues to make progress, now features functional pens
For a decent refresh rate, resolution, and array of customization options (a must-have for glasses-wearers like myself), you could be paying upwards of $800 for something like the Valve Index......»»
6,000 Coinbase accounts impacted by suspected social engineering attack
Coinbase is currently one of the largest and most accessible trading platforms available to cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Unfortunately, this makes the exchange a high-profile target for bad actors with malicious intent......»»
Logitech"s new MX Keys Mini is a wireless, space-saving keyboard that costs $100
The MX Keys Mini wireless is a minimalist keyboard best suited to creators and users working on multiple platforms that are fine with paying a premium for a small, wireless keyboard or are already invested in Logitech's ecosystem......»»
Here"s how much you"d have today if you"d invested your stimulus checks into cryptocurrency
The US government in an attempt to curb the economic impact brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic has issued a series of three stimulus checks to date. The first started rolling out in April 2020 to the tune of up to $1,200 for eligible tax-paying a.....»»
Paying For Taco Bell With Dogecoin May Be Soon Be a Reality
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: How about paying for your Taco Bell order with Dogecoin? Or some of Whole Food's avocado ice cream with Bitcoin. That's the goal of a new partnership between crypto payment processor BitPay and Veri.....»»
Coinbase To Let You Deposit Part of Your Paycheck Into Your Coinbase Account
Cryptocurrency company Coinbase is announcing a handful of new features. While the company is better known for its exchange that lets you convert USD into various cryptocurrencies, Coinbase wants to expand its consumer services so that you use the pl.....»»
Who"s paying for your Uber?
A new study from Ph.D. graduate Jacob Ward, Professor Jeremy Michalek of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) and Mechanical Engineering (MechE), and Associate Professor Costa Samaras of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon Universit.....»»
Alternative financing startup Pipe snaps up Stripe and HubSpot execs, expands to UK
Pipe, a two-year-old startup that aims to be the “Nasdaq for revenue,” announced today it has snagged former Stripe EIC Sid Orlando and HubSpot’s ex-Chief Strategy Officer Brad Coffey to serve on its executive team. The Miami-based fintech also.....»»
Constructor finds $55M for tech that powers search and discovery for e-commerce businesses
One of the biggest problems in the world of e-commerce is the predicament of shopping cart abandonment: when shoppers aren’t getting to what they want fast enough — whether it’s finding the right item, or paying for it in a quick an.....»»
Municipal takeover in Michigan: A rational, apolitical response to financial distress, or something else?
Six of the 11 Michigan cities that have come under state emergency management since 1990 also saw changes to their municipal drinking water systems, the most common being rate increases, water shutoffs for nonpayment and the privatization of water se.....»»
Greycroft leads $3.5M into Breef, an online marketplace for ad agencies
Breef’s platform is democratizing how brands and boutique agencies connect with each other in the process of planning, scoping, pitching and paying for projects. Breef raised $3.5 million in funding to continue developing what it boasts a.....»»
Coinbase To Invest 10% of All Future Profits In Crypto
According to a tweet from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, the brokerage firm is planning to purchase more than $500 million worth of cryptocurrency on its balance sheet. It's also going to be investing 10% of all future profits in crypto. The Block rep.....»»