Monday, October 3, 2022

A profile of Checkout.com founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz, who owns 60% of the $40B London-based payments company and has begun investing in fintech startups (Ivan Levingston/Bloomberg)

Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg:
A profile of Checkout.com founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz, who owns 60% of the $40B London-based payments company and has begun investing in fintech startups  —  A college dropout from Switzerland has amassed a $14 billion fortune to become one of the country's richest people by creating a rising star in electronic payments.



Immerok, which is building an Apache Flink-based cloud service for data streaming, raised a $17M seed led by CUSP Capital, 468 Capital, and others (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Immerok, which is building an Apache Flink-based cloud service for data streaming, raised a $17M seed led by CUSP Capital, 468 Capital, and others  —  In 2011, the Apache Software Foundation released Flink, a high-throughput, low-latency engine for streaming various data types.



Kim Kardashian settles with the SEC for $1.26M after not reporting a $250K payment to promote EthereumMax on Instagram and won't promote crypto for three years (Mike Calia/CNBC)

Mike Calia / CNBC:
Kim Kardashian settles with the SEC for $1.26M after not reporting a $250K payment to promote EthereumMax on Instagram and won't promote crypto for three years  —  - Kim Kardashian agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle SEC charges for failing to disclose a payment she received for touting a crypto asset on Instagram.



Deliveroo partners with UK supermarket Morrisons to open its first physical store in London; customers can shop in-store, collect orders, or get local delivery (Adam Coghlan/Eater London)

Adam Coghlan / Eater London:
Deliveroo partners with UK supermarket Morrisons to open its first physical store in London; customers can shop in-store, collect orders, or get local delivery  —  Deliveroo is chewing up all of the data.  The London-born, one-time restaurant delivery giant — now omnipresent goods-provider …



Google Chrome: How to send ‘Do not track’ requests to websites

How a website responds to the request determines what happens to your data. For example, after sending a ‘Do not track’ request, many websites continue to gather and use your browsing information to enhance security, offer content, services, advertisements, and recommendations on their websites, as well as produce reporting statistics. https://ift.tt/ZnI7BWj

Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)

New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...