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Deel chooses Stripe to create a stablecoin wallet to help millions of contractors hold, earn, and spend globally
03 Jun 2026
Deel is using Stripe to enable millions of contractors across 150+ countries to hold, earn, and spend a US Dollar backed balance.
Stripe marks ten years in France
28 May 2026
Stripe now works with nearly 800,000 businesses and solopreneurs in France
Stripe partners with AWS to power AgentCore payments with Privy
08 May 2026
Privy, a Stripe company, is providing the wallet infrastructure and payment rails that power the first set of capabilities, alongside Coinbase.
ElevenLabs expands its use of Stripe to accelerate its growth
08 May 2026
ElevenLabs is expanding its use of Stripe to support its rapid growth.
Stripe builds out the economic infrastructure for AI with 288 launches
29 Apr 2026
Stripe announced 288 new products and features at Stripe Sessions
Stripe powers Mercor’s expert marketplace for advancing AI models
01 Apr 2026
Mercor has chosen Stripe to run its marketplace and power its rapid growth.
Stripe brings a new checkout experience for Facebook
25 Mar 2026
Stripe, the programmable financial services company, today announced it is helping power a new checkout experience on Facebook.
Stripe named a Leader by independent research firm for merchant payment providers
05 Mar 2026
Stripe was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Merchant Payment Providers, Q1 2026
Stripe powers OpenRouter’s global AI model access for millions of developers
29 Jan 2026
OpenRouter, a platform that gives over 5 million developers access to hundreds of AI models through a single interface, is building on Stripe to support its revenue growth, global expansion, and fraud protection.
Stripe powers Gamma’s rapid monetization
27 Jan 2026
Gamma crossed $100 million annual recurring revenue profitably, relying on Stripe Checkout
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
