What if, instead of sitting on your phone on the sofa ordering stuff from Amazon, you could buy the same things locally from local stores that ultimately enliven and enrich your local neighborhood? What if by doing that, you wouldn’t be walking through deserted main streets, past boarded-up shops, dark alleys and graffiti? What if […]
View More UK military veteran launches crowd-funding for Pixie app to revive local storesCategory: iZettle
UK military veteran launches crowd-funding for Pixie app to revive local stores
What if, instead of sitting on your phone on the sofa ordering stuff from Amazon, you could buy the same things locally from local stores that ultimately enliven and enrich your local neighborhood? What if by doing that, you wouldn’t be walking through deserted main streets, past boarded-up shops, dark alleys and graffiti? What if […]
View More UK military veteran launches crowd-funding for Pixie app to revive local storesPayPal and Singapore’s Temasek invest $125M in Indian payment startup Pine Labs
Fresh from agreeing its largest acquisition to date with a deal to buy European payment firm iZettle for $2.2 billion, PayPal is on the investment hunt once again after it backed India’s Pine Labs with a $125 million round. The financing jointly comes from PayPal and Temasek, the sovereign investment fund from the Singaporean government […]
View More PayPal and Singapore’s Temasek invest $125M in Indian payment startup Pine LabsLondon’s street performers are embracing cashless payments
The drive to digitize payments in the UK is modernizing income for London’s famous street performers. Thanks to a new development backed by London mayor Sadiq Khan, buskers — aka street performers and musicians — in the British capital will be able to solicit tips from credit cards as well as the traditional cash and […]
View More London’s street performers are embracing cashless paymentsiZettle expands from mobile payments into e-commerce and online sales for SMBs
iZettle, the startup out of Sweden that has been referred to as the Square of Europe, is today making a move that underscores its bigger strategy to build on its traction with small businesses in mobile payments, to expand into an ever-wider range of financial services to fill out its $950 million valuation. The company […]
View More iZettle expands from mobile payments into e-commerce and online sales for SMBsPayments startup iZettle raises $47M, reportedly at a $950M valuation
iZettle — the payments startup based out of Stockholm that competes against companies like Square, Paypal and SumUp to provide card transactions using smartphones and tablets as well as related accounting services — has raised another €40 million ($47 million), money that CEO and co-founder Jacob de Geer told TechCrunch would be used to expand into more markets beyond the 12 where… Read More