Part of the original “PayPal Mafia” and also formerly of Slide, Max Levchin has made a return to financial services startups with his newest venture, Affirm. Read more »
Max Levchin’s latest product, Homer, lets you see your friends’ phone screens to discover new apps. It also unwittingly provides a fascinating window into their lives. Read more »
Twitter is making its debut on the public markets and with that the fortunes of its founders, employees and many of its investors will change. As it crosses into adulthood, Twitter… Read more »
A new startup called Zendrive wants to improve the driving experience — and our actual driving skills — by quantifying our daily commute on our iPhones. Read more »
Using machine language smarts to screen for a much wider array of fraudulent online behavior, startup Sift Science now has $5.5 million to broaden its beta test beyond a few select companies. Read more »
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin has launched a new payments startup called Affirm, coming out of his new lab venture meant to foster startups around the concept of data. Read more »
Is the world of big data one in which information about us allows us to personalize services and benefit from that personalization, or is it one in which our data is… Read more »
Max Levchin, who in his past life started PayPal and Slide is back at it again. He has started a new hybrid R& D Lab/Incubator (HVF) and his focusing on opportunities… Read more »
Yahoo, once an Internet giant has fallen behind competitors and is slowly losing the battle of attention to newer and more nimble competitors. The hiring of ultra smart Marissa Mayer and… Read more »
London currency exchange startup Transferwise has teamed up with a neighbor, The Currency Cloud, to let people transfer money between a range of European currencies. But is the next stop for… Read more »