March, 2025

March, 2025

Town Raises $18 Million to Develop Small-Business-Focused Tax Platform
Town, a startup founded by veterans of Google, Plaid and OpenAI, has raised $18 million. The company announced the funding round Friday (March 14) along with the launch of its platform, designed to pr...

Stock Market Shakeup Could Hinder Consumer Spending Even Further
Economists are reportedly concerned that recent stock market turbulence could drive down consumer spending. That’s because, per a report Sunday (March 16) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the top 1...

Musk vs OpenAI Nonprofit Trial Could Commence in December
OpenAI and Elon Musk have reportedly agreed to a trial date over OpenAI’s for-profit transition. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup and the world’s wealthiest person have agreed to fast-trac...

Visits to US Retailers Dip Alongside Consumer Confidence
Want additional evidence of the American consumer’s declining confidence? Check out retail foot traffic. Visits to U.S. stores dropped by 4.3% in early March, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunda...

Cashless Countries Rethink Switch Amid New Cyberthreats
Two of the planet’s most cashless societies are now reexamining their move from paper money. As The Guardian reported Sunday (March 16), Sweden and Norway have the lowest amount of cash in circulati...

Fintech as a Service Platform Rapyd Acquires PayU Global Payment Organization (GPO)
Rapyd, a global Fintech-as-a-Service provider, has completed the acquisition of PayU Global Payment Organization (GPO). This latest milestone is said to mark an important step in Rapyd’s ongoing exp...

Capco and OpenAI to Streamline Financial Services
Capco, the global management and technology consultancy, announced a collaboration with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT and frontier AI models such as GPT-4o, GPT-4.5, OpenAI o1 and o3 mini, to accelerat...

Payments and Commerce Platform Bilt Rewards Announces Acquisition of Banyan
Bilt Rewards, the payments and commerce platform transforming the $2.1 trillion housing payments market, announced the acquisition of Banyan, the platform for item-level receipt data. This acquisition...

Dude Perfect and Mark Rober may be the next YouTubers to get big streaming deals
Netflix and other streaming platforms are stepping up efforts to sign YouTubers, which could mean big streaming deal...

SwitchBot’s next smart hub comes with a control knob
Smart home company SwitchBot is preparing a new Matter-enabled smart hub called the SwitchBot Hub 3, according to a ...

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