Month: January 2021
You can now cash your government stimulus check through Venmo Stimulus Check
Venmo has added a new feature that will allow select users in the US to cash checks including their latest stimulus check directly from the money transfer app. The company’s “Cash a Check” feature can be used to cash printed, payroll and US government checks from the safety of your…
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The cauldrons of gold theory of media and startups
Another week, another email newsletter. This time, the story is Punchbowl, a politics-centric newsletter founded by a crop of recent Politico alums including Jake Sherman, Anna Palmer and John Bresnahan. Ben Smith has the story, as does Maxwell Tani at the Daily Beast with some more juicy details. Why do…
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Amazon’s Haven healthcare venture is reportedly disbanding
Three years after Amazon started a healthcare venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, the trio have decided to call it quits. CNBC reports that the organization, once called Haven, is disbanding, and the company will likely shut down by t… Source
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The Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JPMorgan healthcare joint venture is officially ending
A somewhat nebulous, but high-profile and potentially heavily-moneyed joint venture is coming to an end: Haven, the JV created by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, is being “disbanded” according to CNBC, three years after its original formation. One of the main reasons is that each partner in the venture…
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Venmo adds check cashing feature for some US customers
PayPal-owned banking app Venmo is launching a check cashing feature for both its Android and iOS apps for “eligible” users in the US, the company announced Monday. Cash a Check will allow users to snap a photo of a check and deposit it into a Venmo account. The review process…
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Microsoft wants to unite all its email programs into ‘One Outlook’ Outlook
Microsoft is in the process of developing a single version of Outlook for Windows and Mac that will also replace the default Mail and Calendar apps on Windows 10. According to Windows Central, the new client is codenamed Monarch and its user interface is based on the Outlook Web app…
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