June 06, 2022
Peloton Hires Ex-AWS Finance VP Liz Coddington as Its CFO

Peloton has appointed Liz Coddington, a 20-year veteran of financial planning, as its new chief financial officer, a press release said Monday (June 6). She’s taking over for current CFO...

June 06, 2022
Payments Firm MFS Africa Buys US FinTech Global Technology Partners

Digital payment company MFS Africa is set to acquire the U.S. FinTech Global Technology Partners to help issue prepaid cards — a rare incident of an African company buying a...

June 06, 2022
Citigroup to Add 4,000 Tech Workers to Move Clients Online

Citigroup said Monday (June 6) it plans to hire more than 4,000 people to join its tech team to help move institutional clients online following the COVID-19 pandemic. Jonathan Lofthouse,...

June 06, 2022
Today in Retail: Brands Contend With the Great Unsubscribe; Amazon...

Today in retail, cryptocurrency spenders come from a range of income brackets, and retailers are stuck with inventory as shoppers transition from comfort to more professional and party-ready looks. Plus,...

June 06, 2022
How Brands Can Survive the Great Unsubscribe

Are good times over for subscription commerce? In a word: no. But there’s also no questioning that trimming of subscriptions — retail and streaming — is happening more now as...

June 03, 2022
EMEA Daily: Germany’s N26 Teams With Stripe

In today’s top stories from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, German digital bank N26 works with Stripe to expand its account top-up options. Also, African money transfer service M-Pesa...

June 02, 2022
M-Pesa Partners With Visa for Virtual Card Payments in Africa

African money transfer service M-Pesa will be teaming with Visa on a virtual payment card service that will try to tap into the subscriptions market there, worth $40 billion a...

May 31, 2022
Streaming App Provider Ranking Has Two Stars Sharing the Spotlight

For the most part, this month’s Provider Ranking of Streaming Apps advances the plot with familiar pacing — but there are three exceptions that provide some bursts of action. In...

May 30, 2022
Warner Bros. Discovery

By:  Ben Thompson (Stratechery) Last week the Wall Street Journal ran a profile of longtime Discovery CEO (now Warner Bros. Discovery CEO) David Zaslav entitled There’s a New Media Mogul Tearing...