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The Greatest App of All Time Day 20: Venmo vs. Twitter

It’s Day 20 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and the competition is getting fierce! We lost a legend yesterday, as YouTube defeated Vine with an overwhelming victory. Today, Venmo will try its luck against Twitter. If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. Check out the full bracket of contestants embedded below. And as always, if you think we missed your personal favorite app of all time, yell at us in the…

Venmo and PayPal now offer ‘Tap to Pay’ on iPhone for businesses

PayPal noted that this feature will help small businesses increase sales by capitalizing on the fact that more people are using digital wallets."As consumers increasingly turn to non-cash options to pay, small businesses are looking for affordable and flexible ways to offer their customers more payment choices without being tied down to a fixed location," said Nitin Prabhu, VP of small business & financial services at PayPal. Also: Google Files adds a scanner - here's how to digitize your documentsThere is a fee

Venmo vs. I Am Rich

Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! YouTube handily defeated Words With Friends in yesterday’s lineup, taking more than 87 percent of the vote. Now it’s time for two very different money apps to duke it out.If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. Check out the full bracket of contestants embedded below. And as always, if you think we missed your personal favorite app of all time, yell at us in…

Businesses can now use iPhones to accept Venmo and PayPal payments with Apple’s Tap to Pay feature in the United States

It has just gotten easier for small businesses in the United States to accept contactless payments after two of the country's most popular money platforms confirmed support for Apple's Tap to Pay feature. The feature allows businesses to accept contactless payments via either Apple Pay or contactless cards using nothing more than an iPhone. So long as it's an iPhone XS or newer, no additional hardware is required — no dongles or Bluetooth card readers are needed.Accepting contactless payments using an iPhone is something…

13 Brutal Stories From People Swindled By Elon Musk Impersonation Scams

The internet is filled with scam artists who try to swindle unsuspecting people out of their money. But impersonation scams that use Elon Musk and his bevy of tech companies—including Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and X—have exploded in popularity in recent years. And Gizmodo obtained reports about many of these scams filed with the federal government over the past year.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetGizmodo submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking for complaints about…

PayPal Ventures’ first AI investment, a credit-based dating app and Robinhood’s good week

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at a new finance-based dating app, Robinhood’s earnings results and the startup in which PayPal Ventures made its first investment. Let’s dive in! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The big story A new dating app was released just in time for Valentine’s Day, but there’s a catch: You must have at least a…

PayPal Enterprises Services Chief Karczmer to Depart

Karczmer, who joined PayPal in May 2016, is to leave April 30. Karczmer, who joined PayPal in May 2016, is to leave April 30. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your materials, please…

layoffs: More than 30,000 tech employees lose jobs globally in first month of 2024

The year 2024 started off on a worse note for the tech employees, as more than 122 tech companies and startups laid off more than 30,000 workers in January itself, while the job cuts continue unabated.According to data compiled by layoff-tracking website Layoffs.fyi, 122 tech companies have shown the door to 31, 751 employees (as of February 3).Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitIndian School of

Peter Thiel Is Funding a New Olympics, Steroids Not a Problem

There’s good news for steroid fans: juicers will finally get their day on the field. A who’s who of extremely online investors pitched in to fund a series of events called the Enhanced Games, which describes itself as “the 21st Century Olympics without drug testing.” The list includes Christian Angermayer, venture capitalist, Balaji Srinivasan, former Coinbase CTO, and Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and frenemy of Elon Musk. Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie “Unlike the Olympic Games, Enhanced believes…

PayPal, Block, iRobot job cuts end grim January

The tech industry has had a rough start to the new year. As the first month of 2024 comes to a close, it goes out in much the same way as it came in: with more tech layoffs. According to tech layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi, January 2024 has seen a total of 28,970 jobs lost across 104 companies. In the past two days alone, job cuts at several high-profile tech companies were revealed. They include:PayPal: On Tuesday, PayPal CEO Alex Chriss sent a letter to employees saying executives have decided to “right size” the company by…