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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
Stripe powers Higgsfield’s global expansion and marketplace launch
20 Jan 2026
Higgsfield doubled its annual revenue run rate from $100 million to $200 million in just two months.
Stripe completes Metronome acquisition
20 Jan 2026
Stripe, the programmable financial services company, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Metronome, the leader in orchestrating billing for the most complex usage-based models.
Lovable turns to Stripe to accelerate its growth
14 Jan 2026
As well as using Stripe for payments and subscriptions, Lovable has adopted Stripe’s usage-based billing for its Lovable Cloud and Lovable AI offerings.
Stripe helps power a new shopping experience in Microsoft Copilot
09 Jan 2026
Stripe’s agentic commerce solutions help power the new experience inside Copilot.
Stripe launches the Agentic Commerce Suite to help every business thrive in the AI-enabled commerce era
15 Dec 2025
Stripe, the programmable financial services company, today introduced Agentic Commerce Suite, a new way for businesses to start selling through multiple AI agents.
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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.
