June 2023

Free On-Demand Webinar: How to Grow With Purpose

June 1, 2023
Want to scale your business without compromising the values that inspired you to start in the first place? Then watch our free webinar as Whole Food Market’s CEO, Jason Buechel, shares his key strategies.

Wattpad is revamping its creator program and making it more accessible

June 1, 2023

Storytelling platform Wattpad is revamping its creator program and making it more accessible for writers, the company announced on Thursday. Launched last year, the Wattpad Creators Program was limited in scale and “overly complicated,” the company says. Since its launch, Wattpad has paid out nearly $3.8 million in stipends through the program. Wattpad plans to […]

Wattpad is revamping its creator program and making it more accessible by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Google Wallet adds support for QR-based cards and insurance cards

June 1, 2023

Google announced an update to Google Wallet today with new features, such as the ability to convert images into passes, a boarding pass integration with Google Messages, and an additional layer of security when saving health cards. The company said that users will soon be able to quickly scan barcodes or QR codes from things like […]

Google Wallet adds support for QR-based cards and insurance cards by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Back-end development platform Platformatic raises $3.5M

June 1, 2023

Platformatic, a new back-end development platform, wants to make it easier for enterprises to modernize their infrastructure by giving them the tools to build and deploy microservices-based architectures with the simplicity of a monolith. The company, which was founded by Node.js veterans Luca Maraschi (CEO) and Matteo Collina (CTO), also today announced a $3.5 million […]

Back-end development platform Platformatic raises $3.5M by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: clean energy investments, and Amazon’s data privacy fine

June 1, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The world is finally spending more on solar than oil production Money makes the world go round. And when it comes to energy, we’re seeing more investment than ever: companies, research institutions, and…