Ian Kar

Robots are taking people’s jobs, from white collar jobs to those on Wall Street. Now, it looks like they’re going to deliver pizzas, too.

Can a necklace help you eat healthier?

In its battle to attract and retain more drivers, Uber is going to help its on-demand workers get paid, well, on demand.

Seth Wheeler, a former economic advisor to President Obama, has joined JPMorgan Chase as a managing director leading fintech and innovation strategy, multiple sources told Quartz.

Instead of hanging out with your friends in real life, why not spend time with them in outer space?

In order to join the terrorist group ISIS, applicants must fill out a registration form, including an option to become suicide bombers.

Biometric security—using characteristics of our bodies to verify who we are—is becoming commonplace. Most of us are comfortable scanning our fingerprints to unlock our phones or gain access to an office, and companies like Facebook and MasterCard are scanning our faces for security. What’s next?

Next time you listen to NPR, you might want to turn off your Amazon Echo.

At the KBW Cards, Payments & Financial Technology Symposium last month, PayPal CFO John Rainey was asked—twice—about whether or not the payments company, and Venmo parent, would ever buy or become a bank.

Square’s stock jumped 3.5% in after-hours trading today (March 9) shortly after the payment-processing company reported better-than-expected earnings in the fourth quarter.

Times are getting tough for the startup industry—and its starting to affect financial technology startups.

Splitting up a dinner bill with a large group of friends can be a real pain. An even split is the simplest way, but usually not the most equitable. Going through each item can be far too tedious, especially after a few glasses of wine. But what if you want to make it really fair in the broadest economic sense, even accounting for the wage gap? Well, you’re in luck; there’s now an app for that.

Instead of hackers merely looking at your financial data, what if they could add a million dollars to your debt?

Dwolla, a payments startup, used to say it was setting “a new precedent for the payments industry” when it came to data security.

Venmo has only just launched its latest feature but analysts already think it could develop into a significant source of revenue for the money transfer app’s parent company, PayPal.

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Warren Buffett is making it a bit easier for any of his 361,270 employees at Berkshire Hathaway to win some money during the NCAA March Madness tournament this year.

This story has been updated with a comment from the company.

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Wireless internet, or Wi-Fi, is ubiquitous. But it consumes a lot of energy from our devices, which kills the battery life of our smartphones, smartwatches, and other smart gadgets.

The “Voice of God” is the latest celebrity to lend his voice to popular mapping app Waze.

Back in 2012, PayPal was losing faith in the future of near field communication, NFC, as a consumer payments technology. John Donahoe, then the CEO of PayPal’s then-parent company, eBay, joked at a conference that year that NFC stood for “not for commerce.” And PayPal’s then-president, David Marcus, wrote in a blog post about his predictions for the coming year that “[t]he NFC payments debate will slowly die in 2013.”

It’s official: your data will outlive you by a few billion years.

AIG is an insurance company. Alphabet is the parent company of internet search giant Google. While there don’t seem to be many synergies on the surface, analysts at Citigroup think Alphabet should partner with an investment bank to buy AIG and turn it into an “insurance FinTech laboratory.”