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Stripe Sessions: 50+ announcements, including AI-powered payments, major upgrades to Connect, interoperability, and more
25 Apr 2024
Stripe announces its largest ever set of new features, following a year in which the company processed over $1 trillion in payments.
URBN partners with Stripe to power online and in-person retail payments
16 Apr 2024
Stripe becomes the primary payments infrastructure for URBN brands including Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People, and FP Movement.
Amazon uses Stripe Terminal to power payments for Just Walk Out technology in Australia and Canada
22 Mar 2024
Stripe Terminal will enable in-person payments for retailers using Just Walk Out technology.
Stripe publishes 2023 annual letter
14 Mar 2024
Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today released its annual letter from cofounders John and Patrick Collison.
Hertz partners with Stripe to power global rental car payments
08 Mar 2024
Stripe becomes the standard payments infrastructure for Hertz, Dollar, and Thrifty car rental brands.
Stripe announces tender offer to provide employee liquidity
28 Feb 2024
Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, has signed agreements with investors to provide liquidity to current and former Stripe employees through a tender offer at a $65B (€60B) valuation.
Tokyu chooses Stripe to launch TsugiTsugi, its new accommodation subscription service
14 Feb 2024
Tokyu oversees more than 200 businesses across Japan. By partnering with Stripe, it will launch TsugiTsugi, a subscription service to help Tokyu and its partners fill vacancies at their hotels and resorts during off-peak periods.
Stripe Tour Singapore showcases tools to help businesses expand globally
19 Jan 2024
Stripe introduced its latest product innovations at Stripe Tour Singapore for businesses in Southeast Asia–from startups to enterprises–to take advantage of surging consumer demand in the region for online goods and services.
Stripe helps Best Buy with new online experience for health and wellness products
10 Jan 2024
Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced its work with Best Buy to help power the retailer’s expansion into prescription health and wellness technology products.
Stripe launches Climate Orders, enabling businesses to pre-order carbon removal tons
01 Dec 2023
Stripe Climate now includes Climate Orders, a new product that lets businesses pre-order a specific number of carbon removal tons from Frontier’s offtake portfolio.
Featured
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.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
Samuel Slater – textile tycoon or traitor?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Dec 2023
Samuel Slater is a name that holds significant importance in the annals of American industrial history. Often referred to as the ‘Father of the American Factory System’, Slater's contributions played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s industrial landscape.
Underwood Typewriter Company – an icon of the past
By Kiron Kasbekar | 21 Dec 2023
You’ve probably never heard of Underwood typewriters. For the company folded up in 1963 – 60 years ago. You may not even have seen and handled a typewriter, unless someone in your family owned one.
The rise and fall of Chrysler
By Kiron Kasbekar | 16 Dec 2023
A century ago, the American automobile industry was more crowded than a vegetable market on a Sunday morning, with such a wide variety of stuff on sale that buyers were spoilt for choice. Buyers could pick and choose, bargain, pay up and drive out with the newly purchased vehicle.
TRW – the tide turned
By Kiron Kasbekar | 13 Dec 2023
There used to be an American company called Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. This company, which was a global supplier of automotive systems, modules, and components to car and truck manufacturers, started small, as most companies do. Then, as the automotive industry grew bigger, so did TRW.
The rise and fall of Nokia
By Aniket Gupta | 07 Dec 2023
My interest is stories about dominant companies that failed all of a sudden. These companies were once etched into people’s minds but have since become a symbol of nostalgia. One such company, which was the biggest in its industry before it failed catastrophically, is Nokia.
Yahoo!: The first king of the internet
By Aniket Gupta | 01 Dec 2023
The year is 1994. You go to the internet to search for a particular website, but there is no Google that could be used to search your desired website. What do you do? The answer is that you use Yahoo.
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