“To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it.” Elon Musk posted that advice on X on Saturday. On Thursday he added a promis…
Visa has won approval to start preparing a domestic bank card clearing business in China, the company said on Tuesday. The People’s Bank of China approved its “Application to Prepare”, which lets Visa begin formal preparations. It does not yet let Visa…
Pay, a Nigerian payments and lending app, has filed to list on the New York Stock Exchange, Yinka Adegoke reported for Semafor. Earlier reports put its likely valuation at about $4bn. The company filed on 9 October, bne IntelliNews reported. It will tr…
Fintech start-up Ramp has raised about $1.85bn at a valuation of roughly $60bn, Rebecca Torrence reported for Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. Dragoneer Investment Group and Thrive Capital led the round, and Founders Fund also wrote a…
Revolut wants to grow beyond banking into a global tech company on the scale of the biggest US groups, but built in Europe, chief executive Nik Storonsky said. He spoke with Exor chief executive John Elkann at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session title…
Just Eat Takeaway’s orders grew year on year in September for the first time in 55 months, its owner Prosus said on Thursday. Chief executive Fabricio Bloisi gave the figure in a letter to shareholders that also covers iFood, Prosus’s food delivery bus…
NextBlock is putting $3 million behind an increasingly important challenge for public blockchains: how to give financial institutions privacy without forcing them to move their activity onto separate, purpose-built networks. The Luxembourg-based ventur…
DoorDash co-founder and chief executive Tony Xu says more AI agents will mean more demand for physical delivery networks, and even for human labour. He spoke on Wednesday at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled “Inside the Making of DoorDash”. A…
How nine AR automation platforms compare on collections automation and cash application, and which one keeps its AI inside auditable controls Allianz Research puts average global DSO at around 59 days, while roughly $10 trillion sits in unpaid invoices…
Amazon’s “About You” page has become a social media hit, for the things it says about shoppers. One user on Threads found that Amazon had concluded she “has flat buttocks”, Business Insider reported on Tuesday. Her post set off a wave of others sharing…