The consumer price index (CPI) is up 0.9 percent in June and 5.4 percent over the last 12 months, marking the highest increases since August 2008, according to the Tuesday (July 13) report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Core CPI — which...
Facebook has been removed from a list of companies that are indexed by S&P Dow Jones Indices as socially responsible, according to a report by CNBC. The decision for the ousting, which was made on Thursday (June 13), stems from Facebook’s continued privacy issues. The...
Leading crypto exchange Binance announced the launch of Binance Lite Australia, which allows Aussies to buy bitcoin with cash. The offering is Binance’s first fiat gateway on the blockchain continent, providing a cash-to-bitcoin brokerage service via a network of more than 1,300 supported newsagents across...
Stripe, the $9 billion payments processing startup, has acquired point-of-sale (POS) software developer Index. Index, which was backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s venture capital firm Innovation Endeavors, is well-known for its software for PIN pads that is able to read a chip card...
May 04, 2017
The problem with EMV for most consumers and merchants comes down to speed, Visa and Index have learned. The change in hand motion didn’t really throw most customers off that much. Moving from a swipe to dip didn’t turn out to be so very fundamentally different from each other – and consumers learned to deal. […]
July 22, 2021
Venture capital firm Index Ventures has raised $3.1 billion toward helping new businesses started during the COVID-19 pandemic, of which there were around 4.4 million in the U.S. alone, a company blog said Thursday (July 22). The release said booms in new businesses also occurred in the U.K., France, Germany and other countries. The money […]
July 13, 2021
The consumer price index (CPI) is up 0.9 percent in June and 5.4 percent over the last 12 months, marking the highest increases since August 2008, according to the Tuesday...
June 13, 2019
Facebook has been removed from a list of companies that are indexed by S&P Dow Jones Indices as socially responsible, according to a report by CNBC. The decision for the...
March 21, 2019
Leading crypto exchange Binance announced the launch of Binance Lite Australia, which allows Aussies to buy bitcoin with cash. The offering is Binance’s first fiat gateway on the blockchain continent,...
