Stripe Expands to Africa in $200M Move - Fri, Oct 16 2020

When Stripe announced earlier this year that it had picked up another $600 million in funding, it said one big reason for the funding was to expand its API-based payments services into more geographies. Today the company is coming good on that plan…

The signs started appearing in bookstore windows this week. “Buy books from people who want to sell books, not colonize the moon.” “Amazon, please leave the dystopia to Orwell.” “If you want Amazon to be the…

As most of the major media categories — music, video and video games — have existed for decades, we tend to forget that media is technology. Instead, we think of technology as being used to express media, rather than media itself.

Over the past few years, we've invested in building helpful and secure products you can use to communicate and stay connected with the people in your life. This month, we unveiled Google Workspace, which includes everything you need—Gmail…

Many retail workers will receive a new sort of preparation for this year's holiday season: training on how to manage conflicts with customers who resist mask-wearing, social distancing and store capacity limits. The National Retail Federation, a…

I haven't been using my Xbox One as much recently, as it just feels outdated. As someone who plays primarily on PC, the lower frame rates and input lag on current-generation consoles are enough to put me off playing a lot of games on an Xbox One or…