Fintech

PayPal's (Not) Super App Idea

PayPal's (Not) Super App Idea

PayPal isn't going to make anyone's list of Hottest Fintech Companies but this 'Original FinTech' has been on a tear over the last year. The company has added 72m users, partnered with merchants like Nike, and almost tripled its market cap. Now Schulman and team have their sights set on building the ever-elusive ‘super app'. That’s not a good idea.

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fiserData: A behemoth is born, but is it enough?

fiserData: A behemoth is born, but is it enough?

A financial powerhouse was born as Fiserv agreed to buy First Data for $22 billion in an all stock deal. The news comes as a surprise for many in an industry that doesn’t see transactions of this size very often. The combined company (which will go by Fiserv in a tragic waste of an opportunity to rebrand) forges a mammoth technology vendor attempting to prove that despite all the noise around young tech companies like Square and Stripe, old dogs can also learn new tricks. The big question is whether it is too little too late.

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