Checkout’s Céline Dufétel will join us on the Fintech Stage at TC Disrupt

Economic headwinds have scattered many of the gains that fintech companies made during the tech funding boom of 2021. Case in point — global payment platforms Stripe and Checkout.com lowered their internal valuations. Still, it would be unwise to count out the opportunities for fintech growth, especially in the U.S. Understanding the current and future … Read more

Apple’s iOS 17 is a lot more exciting than Android 14, but that’s not totally a good thing

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Apple’s iOS 17 is almost here, and it’s a lot more fully featured than Android 14. A casual glance at Apple’s iOS 17 press release compared with Google’s non-existent equivalent belies that, as did the spate of articles that questioned where Google’s Android 14 was at the big Google I/O event. It’s a stark contrast. … Read more

Walmart pays $3.5 billion to increase stake in India’s Flipkart

Walmart has spent $3.5 billion this year to acquire shares from certain Flipkart stakeholders and resolve liabilities with some PhonePe shareholders, illustrating just how aggressively it’s betting on India at a time when its chief global rival Amazon is scaling back on its expenditures in the South Asian market. The $3.5 billion spending took place … Read more