Should You Buy Now, Pay Later? Tread Carefully.
Afterpay, Apple and other financial tech companies are popularizing installment plans to pay off shopping splurge. These applications can also cause confusion and loss of control.
Afterpay, Apple and other financial tech companies are popularizing installment plans to pay off shopping splurge. These applications can also cause confusion and loss of control.
When Melissa Pancost moved her financial literacy start-up, The Beans, to a WeWork office in San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower last May, most of the offices around her were rented but empty. As vaccination rates soared and San Francisco flirted with the lifting of epidemic restrictions, its neighbors began to return. Ms. Pancoast’s social calendar was…
People searching on Facebook for footage of Saturday’s racist shooting in Buffalo, NY, may come across posts with footage of the attack or links to websites promising full video of the gunman. Interconnected between those posts, they may have seen different types of ads. The social network sometimes has ads next to posts offering clips…
This week, thousands of people selling goods on Etsy are going on strike in protest of the company’s climbing fees. And the battle that seems to be taking place in a small corner of the Internet is indeed one of the most enduring battles in our digital world. Etsy is one of the Zillian internet…
Amazon has ordered 100,000 delivery vans, but Revian is reluctant to say how many have been shipped. On Wednesday, he simply said he was “increasing production and delivery.” On a call with analysts, Mr. Scarring said he expects to build about a third of the 25,000 vehicles in the 2022 production estimate. In many ways,…
Elon Musk on Friday stepped up his drama around his $ 44 billion bid to buy Twitter, in a pre-dawn tweet saying the deal “Temporarily on hold” Until he could get more details about the amount of spam and fake accounts on the platform, and tweeted two hours later that he was “still committed” to…
Tesla is recalling 54,000 cars equipped with its fully self-driving software to deactivate a feature that allows vehicles to move slowly at intersections without stopping in certain situations. The move comes after the automaker was criticized on social media for enabling “rolling stops” in violation of traffic rules. “Failure to stop at the stop sign…