Category Archives: Tech News

Banyan, whose network of item-level purchase data helps customers automate expense management, has raised a $43M Series A, $28M in equity and $15M in debt (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Banyan, whose network of item-level purchase data helps customers automate expense [...]

20
Oct
ASML, the Dutch company that makes chip making equipment, expects US restrictions on exporting high-end chips to China to have "limited" impact on its business (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: ASML, the Dutch company that makes chip making equipment, expects US [...]

19
Oct
Enable, which lets B2B companies manage their rebate programs, raised a $94M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $156M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Enable, which lets B2B companies manage their rebate programs, raised a [...]

18
Oct
Alipay has quietly started testing money transfers through WeChat in September, available for a small number of users with a maximum of ~$278 per transfer (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: Alipay has quietly started testing money transfers through [...]

17
Oct
UK-based Zen Educate, a marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with the best available teachers, raised a $21M Series A extension to fuel US expansion (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: UK-based Zen Educate, a marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with the [...]

16
Oct
A look at Spotify's podcast exclusivity strategy, which led to 75% audience drops for some Gimlet shows and caused others, like the Obamas, not to renew deals (Simon Owens/Simon Owens's Media Newsletter)

Simon Owens / Simon Owens’s Media Newsletter: A look at Spotify’s podcast exclusivity strategy, which [...]

15
Oct
IT teams are hiring more freelancers and slowing recruiting full-time staff; Freelancer.com says software developer job postings rose 54.7% YoY in Q3 2022 (Angus Loten/Wall Street Journal)

Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: IT teams are hiring more freelancers and slowing recruiting [...]

14
Oct
China's central bank: e-CNY transactions totaled ~$14B from December 2019 to August 2022, up 14% from ~$12.2B in December 2021, signaling slowing growth (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: China’s central bank: e-CNY transactions totaled ~$14B from [...]

13
Oct
What to expect from Microsoft's Surface event: Surface Pro 9, Surface Laptop 5, Surface Studio 3, and potentially a mini PC and Surface accessories (Jon Fingas/Engadget)

Jon Fingas / Engadget: What to expect from Microsoft’s Surface event: Surface Pro 9, Surface [...]

12
Oct
Google partners with Coinbase to let some customers pay for cloud services in crypto, starting 2023; Coinbase plans to move some data from AWS to Google Cloud (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Google partners with Coinbase to let some customers pay for cloud [...]

11
Oct