NBA star Stephen Curry. (Aubrie Pick photo) Seattle-based pay equity startup Syndio has raised more than $ 30 million in funding in its four years, but a new $ 1 million support from early-stage investors Penny Jar Capital announced on Monday is special notable because the company is anchored by NBA star Stephen Curry. Curry … Read more
The Tunnel To Towers Foundation announced Tuesday that it would be paying off the mortgages of families of first responders who died from diseases related to September 11, 2001. First aid families with children up to 19 years of age are eligible to apply. (8th June)
As expected, Bill.com buys Divvy, the Utah-based corporate spend management startup that competes with Brex, Ramp, and Airbase. The total purchase price of roughly $ 2.5 billion is well above the roughly $ 1.6 billion value after the cash that Divvy committed during its $ 165 million funding round in January 2021. Divvy’s growth rate … Read more
Apple’s copyright protection technology will cost the company dearly. According to Bloomberg, a Marshall, Texas court ordered Apple to pay $ 308.5 million to Personalized Media Communications for allegedly violating a digital rights management (DRM) patent. PMC claimed in 2015 that the FairPlay technology used in the App Store, Apple Music and iTunes infringed seven … Read more
If you’ve ever tried getting on the bus in San Francisco and found that Apple Pay isn’t an option (unlike New York, Beijing, and many other major cities), good news! It changes. Apple has announced that support for Clipper (the payment system for BART, Muni, Caltrain, AC Transit and a number of other transit agencies … Read more
A quiet Microsoft campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) In the first year since aiming to go carbon negative by 2030, Microsoft announced Thursday that it had reduced its carbon footprint by 6% from 11.6 million tons to 10.9 million tons. It was also paid to remove an additional 1.3 million … Read more