Sprinque CEO: How we’re eliminating B2B payment pains
Juan Espinosa, CEO and co-founder of Sprinque, wants to make it easier for businesses to buy things. The fintech startup has just secured a €1.7m seed round to realise the...
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Former Project Titan chief moves to Ford – what does this tell us about Apple’s car plans?
Ford has confirmed that it has appointed Doug Field as its new chief advanced technology...
CEO interview: Scalapay secures $155m in Series A to take on Klarna
Scalapay is the Italian startup taking on Klarna, Afterpay and PayPal. The buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) fintech has just raised a massive...
Ford and Walmart to test delivery AVs in US
Ford, Argo AI and Walmart are working together to launch an autonomous vehicle delivery service in Miami, Austin, Texas, and...
CTO Talk: Q&A with cloud computing company Fastly’s Tyler McMullen
Tyler McMullen is CTO at Fastly, a global edge cloud platform. As part of the founding team at Fastly, he...
Uber CTO quits with no replacement in sight
Uber Technologies’ chief technology officer (CTO) has resigned after less than a year on the job, a media report said. Sukumar Rathnam, the outgoing CTO, will remain at Uber for…
Monzo ex-CEO claims SoftBank investor picked feet and smoked in meetings
Monzo founder and ex-CEO Tom Blomfield has claimed that a SoftBank executive picked his feet and smoked during meetings while Blomfield was pitching for funds to get Monzo off the…
Why the Online Safety Bill fails, and what can make the internet safer
The Online Safety Bill is a proposed Act by the UK Government to protect children online and remove website and social content harmful to both children and adults. If the…
CTO Talk: Q&A with fintech startup Zilch’s Thomas K Matecki
Thomas K Matecki is the CTO of Zilch, the buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) startup that's taking on Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm. As the CTO of Zilch, Matecki is competing in the BNPL…
Marshmallow, a genuinely unusual tech unicorn, rides the insurtech boom
Marshmallow has become the latest insurtech startup to achieve unicorn status after securing a $85m Series B raise at a $1.25bn valuation. The cash injection comes amid an explosion of…
Chinese ‘anti-fraud centre’ becomes most downloaded app
A newly developed national anti-fraud app in China has recently become the country's most downloaded app, following an aggressive state-sponsored promotion campaign. Officially named the “National Anti-Fraud Centre”, the app…
