When it comes to banking, millennials are an anomaly. The Venmo generation doesn’t visit bank branches, write checks, or even use credit cards.
Don’t say Walmart hasn’t been an innovator. It’s mastered the retail market, managing massive profits while keeping prices low. Next up: self-driving shopping carts?
Trading currencies is costly and slow for traders at major financial institutions—transactions need to go through a bunch of middle men, each of which take a slight fee. A new patent application from Goldman Sachs hints at how the blockchain technology that is behind bitcoin could revolutionize that process.
Venmo, the adored millennial app that lets friends send money to each other, wants people to start using it to pay for purchases in stores.
At a packed Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco today (Sept. 7), Apple announced its latest array mobile devices, including two new iPhones, an updated Apple Watch, and a new set of wireless headphones called AirPods.
Nintendo’s ADRs rose more than 20% after the company announced it will be making a new Mario game for iOS at today’s Apple event.
Apple unveiled a series of much anticipated products today (Sept. 7) at a media event in San Francisco. No iPad or Mac news, but it launched the next generation of the iPhone and Apple Watch. Here are the biggest announcements from the keynote event:
Another day, another massive cyber attack.
Facebook’s newest app made it really easy for us to pretend to be high schoolers.
American swimmer Ryan Lochte may have made up a story about getting robbed in Rio, but an Australian swimmer who actually did get mugged there is now facing real-life consequences.
NASA has a new gift for space junkies.
It’s not just disillusioned Republican lawmakers who are coming out against Donald Trump.
“You break it, you buy it,” is a sign that appears in many stores in America. At Kanye West’s temporary shops, it’s more like “you touch it, you buy it.”
Funds aren’t flowing so easily to fintech startups anymore.
John Oliver, host of the HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” takes on the opaque world of auto lending.
After Twitter reported second-quarter earnings last week that missed expectations, CEO Jack Dorsey could use some good news from the other company he leads, Square. And the payments company came through, delivering results that beat investor estimates for most key metrics. Square’s stock popped almost 10% after hours.
In another blow to bitcoin, one of the world’s biggest exchanges of the cryptocurrency suffered a massive security breach.
Would you snap an advertisement? Snapchat thinks you might.
Snapchat is a photo sharing app popular with young people. Instagram, which was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012, is also a photo sharing app popular with young people. And with similar advertising-based strategies to make money, it’s obvious why the two are competitors.
Wireless headphones outsold non-bluetooth headphones for the first time ever in the first half of 2016, according to consumer research firm NPD Group.
Over the last year or so in the US, a lot of the plastic credit cards we carry around every day have been replaced by new one with chips embedded in them. The chips are supposed to make your credit and debit cards more secure—a good thing!—but there’s one little secret no one wants to admit:
Snapchat and Pinterest are two of the hottest new social media apps. In their quest for revenue, they’ve become rivals.
Sorry bitcoiners, the US court system doesn’t think your digital currency is real money.
Pokémon Go has transformed creator company Niantic into a unicorn, say analysts at Citibank.
