(Adds Ant Group’s stake in Kakao Pay)SEOUL, April 26 (Reuters) – South Korean fintech company Kakao Pay Corp has applied for preliminary approval for an initial public offering (IPO), the Korea Exchange said on Monday.Kakao Pay Corp, a unit of South Korea’s top mobile messaging service provider Kakao Corp, provides financial services including money transfer,…
Vera Kutsenko and Hayley Leibson have incredible tech pedigrees, but their latest venture involves as much digging in dirt as it does digging through lines of code. The two women have founded Neverland, a startup for the home gardener that aims to be a marketplace connecting mom and pop gardening shops with the explosion of…
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. A week ago TechCrunch covered Pico’s $6.5 million funding round and described it as “a New York startup that helps online creators and media companies…
Things have been looking up for Belfast since the end of the Troubles. The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since…
Click Studios, the Australian software house that develops the enterprise password manager Passwordstate, has warned customers to reset passwords across their organizations after a cyberattack on the password manager. An email sent by Click Studios to customers said the company had confirmed that attackers had “compromised” the password manager’s software update feature in order to…
CLEVELAND, April 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Introduction of pricier equipment models featuring advanced technologies will continue to be a driver of growth in the $132 billion global agricultural equipment market, which is projected to expand 3.9% annually through 2024, according to a Freedonia Group analysis. Though from a small base, adoption of smart and automated technologies…
Stocks ended higher Friday to finish the week little changed as investors looked to strong economic data and discounted a report that said President Joe Biden would propose raising capital gains taxes on wealthy investors. Equities received a boost from data that indicated U.S. business output expanded the most on record in April, according to…
Twitter accounts sharing vaccination appointments have popped up across the US. The accounts are bots run by software engineers who helped Americans find appointments. Bots like TurboVax in New York City have courted thousands of followers. See more stories on Insider’s business page. Kenneth Hsu’s parents-in-law were desperate to find a vaccine appointment. In February, both…
Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 28, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images US shares fell on Monday as technology shares dragged indexes lower. Investors remain cautious over the slew of corporate earnings ahead as well as the ongoing…
TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey European founders and investors in cities outside the larger European capitals. Over the next few weeks, we will ask entrepreneurs in these cities to talk about their ecosystems, in their own words. This is your chance to put Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Bielefeld and Frankfurt on…
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