Amazon is getting into buy-now-pay-later. The company just announced a partnership with Affirm, a major player in the BNPL space. Customers now have the option of paying in a range of monthly installments at the checkout for purchases of USD 50 or more. In a statement, the companies said they had already started testing the … Read more
The NSO Group has denied that its spyware was used to compromise many politicians’ phones, but WhatsApp tells a different story. Chat giant’s CEO Will Cathcart told the Guardian in an interview that governments allegedly used NSO’s Pegasus software to attack senior government officials around the world in 2019, including senior national security officials who … Read more
Of all aspects of normalcy that Americans missed during the Covid-19 pandemic, physical contact was a common theme. The touch associated with browsing a record store is no exception – clicking a download button can’t feel like entering a store with fellow music fans, flipping through album art, and getting a new disc in hand … Read more
When Apple brought in former HTC design chief Scott Croyle last year, it wasn’t entirely clear why. It now appears that part of his job is to help design Beats devices. The design company Ammunition continues to work on Beats products, but according to 9to5Mac, Croyle is now a central figure between the studio and … Read more
Venture Out executives Sean Sternbach (left) and Ken Horenstein. (Venture out photo) Venture Out expanded: The Seattle-based organization that aims to help technicians quit businesses and create their own startups has added a new program called Moonlighter Lab. What it does: The lab charges $ 1,499 for an 8-week program of validating startup ideas from … Read more