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  • Shine adds invoice insurance to its freelancer bank account

    French startup Shine is adding a new option today. If you think there’s a chance that a client is not going to pay your next invoice, you can insure that invoice to avoid any bad surprise.Shine is building a challenger bank for freelancers and small companies. It lets you More

    Shine adds invoice insurance to its freelancer bank account
  • Daily Crunch: There’s a major iPhone email security bug

    Apple plans to fix an iPhone email security bug, Magic Leap cuts 1,000 staffers and Google is requiring all advertisers to identify themselves.Here’s your Daily Crunch for April 23, 2020.1. A new iPhone email security bug may let hackers steal private dataAccording to security firm ZecOps, the bug is More

    Daily Crunch: Theres a major iPhone email security bug
  • Nextdoor and Walmart partner on a new neighborly assistance program

    Neighborhood social network Nextdoor and Walmart are teaming up today to launch a new “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” program that will make it easier for vulnerable community members to get assistance from neighbors who are already planning a trip to Walmart. The new in-app feature will allow Nextdoor users to post More

    Nextdoor and Walmart partner on a new neighborly assistance program
  • Disruptor Beam relaunches as gaming infrastructure-maker Beamable

    Disruptor Beam, the mobile gaming startup behind Star Trek Timelines, has a new name and a new business. It’s now calling itself Beamable, and it’s selling a set of tools to help game developers add commerce and social functionality to their titles.The company’s direction became clear earlier this year More

    Disruptor Beam relaunches as gaming infrastructure-maker Beamable
  • What is contact tracing?

    One of the best tools we have to slow the spread of the coronavirus is, as you have no doubt heard by now, contact tracing. But what exactly is contact tracing, who does it and how, and do you need to worry about it?In short, contact tracing helps prevent the More

    What is contact tracing?