Posts tagged "Klarna"

Buy-now-pay-later disrupter Klarna has invested a mammoth $500,000 in a WA startup that is changing the game on removing CO2 from the atmosphere.

Josh Howard says up to 20 million unwanted gifts and the packaging they come in can end up cast aside or in landfill by the New Year.

Google has far too many employees, and they're too highly paid, according to a billionaire investor with shares in Alphabet.

Drawn up with the help of industry participants like Afterpay, Zip, and Klarna, the Code of Practice is a set of opt-in rules designed to set minimum standards within the BNPL sector.

We're only a month away from the final quarter of 2022 — a year that could be remembered for its worldwide tech layoffs.

Digital menu and restaurant ordering startup Mr Yum will lay off nearly one in five workers, becoming the latest Australian firm to slash its headcount as market expectations dim.

In five years, we will look back fondly on the BNPL sector much like we reminisce on the follies of the mid-2000s bubble like Babcock & Brown or Allco, or the dot com insanity of 1999, says Adam Schwab.

While online shopping was already on the rise pre-2020, the pandemic has accelerated the growth of ecommerce globally, with revenue projected to reach $US 5.4 trillion in 2022. 

With the launch of Apple Pay Later, the world's largest tech company is trying to consolidate its foothold in the world of consumer finance, and increase its profitability.

Apple's deep pockets mean its new Apple Pay Later product could challenge existing leaders in the buy now, pay later space.

The CEO of the buy now, pay later provider has taken to LinkedIn to provide a list of laid off Klarna employees other companies should consider hiring.

"Our approach to innovation at Adore Beauty has been to seek to understand how beauty customers will be shopping in the next five to ten years. What will be their most important problems to solve? How are we uniquely placed to solve those problems?"