Tag: technology
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Receipt Bank (Product Review)
It isn’t often that one of the apps that I use on a regular basis attracts a large round of funding but it happened recently with Receipt Bank, a London based started which “makes your bookkeeping, faster, easier and more efficient.” Last month, Receipt Bank received a Series B investment worth $50 million from New…
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Toutiao (Product Review)
Fig. 1 – Screenshot of www.toutiao.com/ homepage When I first heard about Toutiao I thought it might be just another news app, this coming one from China. I learned, however, very quickly that Toutiao is much more than just a news app; at the time of writing, Toutiao has more than 700 million users in total, with…
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How PSD2 is set to shake banking up as we know it …
“Banking is necessary. Banks are not.” Yep. Bill Gates said it. Back in 1994. And 28 years later, it’s it’s set to become reality. From the 1st January 2018, banking will no longer be the exclusive domain of banking institutions because PSD2 is going to drastically alter the way in which we bank. The biggest consequence is that…
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Grip (Product Review)
Grip is a London based startup that specialises in “smart event networking software”. That sounds like a relevant problem to solve, because don’t we all have a (secret) love-hate relationship with ‘networking’ at events!? Yes, I’d love to meet with interesting people at events but I hate approaching people ‘cold’. Let’s have a closer look at…
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Vipps (Product Review)
I’m always on the lookout for new payment apps and I recently came across Vipps. Vipps is a Norwegian peer to peer payments app, currently only available to Norwegian users. These are the main things I’ve learned about Vipps: Main learning point: Love how apps like Vipps are making it easier and easier for people to pay…
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