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Sezzle Awarded ‘Top FinTech’ Recognition by CNBC
Buy Now Pay Later // August 02, 2023

Payments platform Sezzle has been named one of CNBC’s top FinTechs. The award for the World’s Top Fintech Companies 2023, announced Wednesday (Aug. 2), places Sezzle among those companies “building innovative, tech-enabled and finance-related products and services,” as CNBC put it on its website. According to a news...

Insurance Tech Firm Lemonade Soars 139 Pct On First Trading Day
Investments // July 02, 2020

Tech companies’ initial public offerings (IPOs) can be grossly mispriced, as evidenced by some companies like Lemonade and Agora which have leapt up close to or even more than 150 percent in price after going public, CNBC reports. The problem, according to venture capitalist Bill...

Google Keeps Gmail Purchase History
Google // July 08, 2019

A new report has found that Google is still keeping a record of a user’s purchase history indefinitely. Back in May, CNBC writer Todd Haselton revealed that he noticed the tech giant was using Gmail to store a list of everything a user has purchased,...

FinTech Acorns Hits $860M Valuation
Fintech Investments // January 29, 2019

Investing and savings startup Acorns has announced a Series E funding round to bring its valuation to $860 million. The $105 million round included Comcast Ventures, NBCUniversal, Bain Capital Ventures, BlackRock, TPG’s Rise Fund, DST and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. NBCUniversal, now Acorns’ largest shareholder, will...

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BNPL Platform Sezzle Starts Trading on Nasdaq

August 17, 2023
Sezzle, the digital payments platform, started trading on Nasdaq on Thursday (Aug. 17), according to the company. To kick off the occasion, Sezzle executives rang the opening bell to start trading for the day at 9 a.m. ET. In an email to PYMNTS, the company said its shares would be listed under the ticker symbol […]

Sezzle Awarded ‘Top FinTech’ Recognition by CNBC

August 02, 2023
Payments platform Sezzle has been named one of CNBC’s top FinTechs. The award for the World’s Top Fintech Companies 2023, announced Wednesday (Aug. 2), places Sezzle among those companies “building innovative, tech-enabled...

Insurance Tech Firm Lemonade Soars 139 Pct On First Trading Day

July 02, 2020
Tech companies’ initial public offerings (IPOs) can be grossly mispriced, as evidenced by some companies like Lemonade and Agora which have leapt up close to or even more than 150...

Google Keeps Gmail Purchase History

July 08, 2019
A new report has found that Google is still keeping a record of a user’s purchase history indefinitely. Back in May, CNBC writer Todd Haselton revealed that he noticed the...