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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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Growing the internet economy. In the same way that Square built a payment-centric ecosystem for brick-and-mortar SMBs and micro-merchants, Stripe has reinvented online payment acceptance. Stripe is focused on capturing a growing share of future payments volume in an increasingly internet-based economy. Virtual card issuance.

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Piece By Piece: 14 Offsite Construction Companies Transforming The Building Industry

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From Marriott opening its first modular hotel, to tech giants like Alphabet investing in modular housing, to Japanese retailer Muji launching prefab micro-homes, offsite construction methods are gaining traction. Blu Homes , which provides luxury dwellings in the Bay Area, has been in the green building industry since 2008.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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Although Bill Me Later was quickly scooped up by PayPal in 2008, Amazon has remained focused on reducing payment friction for customers. Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014. Meanwhile, Amazon made an early insurance push in India by leading a $12M investment in Acko in May 2018.