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Petal gets $13 million to build a credit card for those without a credit history

January 10th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

You might be enjoying the benefits of a credit card with robust rewards today, but odds are when you were first getting started, it was hard to get even close to a card like that. That’s because, for [...]

Bumble is hiring an Editorial Director to build out its media brand

January 10th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Bumble, the female-led dating app founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, is diving head first into content. The company is hiring Clare O’Connor as its first Editorial Director, who will work directly with Wolfe Herd and and [...]

Bugsnag snares $9 million Series B, now gives you a software stability score

January 10th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Bugsnag, the cloud service that helps developers find bugs inside their software, announced a $9 million Series B today. They also released a new version of their dashboard that features a stability score than can give customers an [...]

UK’s Carphone Warehouse fined nearly $540k for 2015 hack

January 10th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

The UK’s data watchdog has handed mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse a £400,000 fine — just shy of the £500k maximum the regulator can currently issue — for security failings attached to a 2015 hack that compromised the [...]

Uber to pay $3M to settle driver service fees class action in NY

January 10th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Uber has agreed to pay $3M to settle a proposed class action lawsuit brought by 2,421 drivers in New York who had accused the ride-sharing giant of docking excessive fees from their fares. Read More on Tech Crunch

Chat app Line is reportedly considering its own cryptocurrency

January 10th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Tickets please, the next crypto train is about to depart. Japan-based messaging app Line is said to be the latest public company to consider a move into the blockchain and cryptocurrencies, according to a Bloomberg report. Unlike some [...]

NiYO raises $13.2M to digitize payroll and employee benefits in India

January 10th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Fintech startup NiYO helps salaried employees access company benefits and other financial services, and now it has raised $13.2 million to offer its services to more of the country. Founded in 2015, NiYO partners with companies (employers) and [...]

What is Snapchat, now Story sharing has stopped growing?

January 10th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

In a betrayal of loyalty signaling poor morale, a massive dump of Snapchat’s usage stats has leaked. The most worrisome is that the number of users posting Stories has shown zero growth, an even worse performance than Snapchat’s [...]

China’s Kunlun completes full buyout of Grindr

January 10th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Nearly two years to the day of its majority investment in Grindr, China-based tech firm Kunlun Group has fully acquired the gay dating app. Grindr is among the, if not the, world’s most popular LBQT dating app with [...]