September 14, 2016
Care.com Delivers Health Benefits To Contractor Workforce
The online marketplace confirmed today (Sept. 14) that it will launch a “peer-to-peer benefits platform” to help provide limited benefits to the caregivers that use its marketplace to connect with families...
September 06, 2016
Waving Goodbye To Andela, Hello To Flutterwave
What could motivate someone to leave a Mark Zuckerberg-funded startup to tackle one of the hardest problems in payments? Iyinoluwa Aboyeji did just that in order to unlock Africa’s $380B...
September 05, 2016
What Apple Did On Its Summer Vacation
Introduction: Apple’s Summer Of Discontent Labor Day is one of the year’s more decisive turning points. Summer lovers and sun worshippers treat the holiday with a bit of basic dread....
August 30, 2016
Matchmaker, Make More Than A Match
Bringing buyers and sellers together is not enough when it comes to the gig economy. Ease of use and secure transactions are paramount concerns for the truly modern marketplace, as...
August 24, 2016
What Faster Payments Mean For Payday
From Same Day ACH to paycard controversies, a few recent news stories have placed payroll in center stage. At the heart of the discussion is how companies can pay their...
August 12, 2016
The Gig Economy Goes X-Border
What’s so hard about paying contract workers who work cross-border in a variety of far-flung locales and who want to be paid in the currency easiest for them to use...
July 25, 2016
Visa/PayPal And The Future Of Payments
There’s no doubt that the announcement of the Visa/PayPal partnership shook the payments world more than a little bit last Thursday. Over the last year, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman made...
July 06, 2016
June’s Strong Finish And HourlyNerd’s Strong Series C
The changing workforce has been something of an obsession since the rise of Uber and its many imitators. While 1099 contractors were not a new idea that on-demand introduced to...
May 26, 2016
The Regulation Iceman Commeth For The On-Demand Economy
Sometimes slow news is good news for a sector, particularly one like the on-demand delivery market space, where recent news has surrounded a wave of firms flaming out. And while the startup...
