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The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) he said in an order Tuesday that BloomTech, the for-profit coding bootcamp formerly known as Lambda School, defrauded students…
Fintech Mercury, whose B2B business is under regulatory scrutiny, expands into consumer banking
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Business banking startup Mercury, founded in 2017, is now launching a consumer banking product. Mercury currently serves more than 100,000 businesses, many of which are startups,…
Italy’s competition and consumer authority, AGCM, fined TikTok 10 million euros (nearly $11 million) following an investigation into algorithmic security issues. The authority opened an investigation…
Bumble, a once powerful force in online dating, is facing a reckoning. The company posted weak Q4 2023 results today, showing a net loss of $32…
The US Federal Trade Commission continued its crackdown on data brokers with a settlement that bars data aggregator InMarket from selling consumers’ precise location data. Texas-based…
The app economy rebounded in 2023, with consumer spending at $171 billion, but downloads were flat
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After the app economy slowed down for the first time in 2022, things picked up again in the past year. According to app intelligence provider data.ai’s…
Tesla’s Autopilot fix for more than 2 million vehicles called ‘inadequate’ by Consumer Reportsafter preliminary tests. Kelly Funkhouser, the nonprofit’s deputy director of vehicle technology, tells…
Hussain Elius is best known as the co-founder of Pathao, one of Bangladesh’s leading ridesharing apps. For his latest startup, however, Elius is exploring the world…
India’s central bank has imposed several measures to curb high growth in consumer credit, in a move that will affect consumer spending and many startups in…