South Africa has one of the fastest-growing remote worker populations in sub-Saharan Africa. Tens of thousands of professionals now earn salaries and contractor fees from companies in the EU, the UK and the US while living in Cape Town, Johannesburg or wherever the Wi-Fi reaches. The challenge is getting that money home efficiently – without…
Payments firm Stripe is considering an acquisition of PayPal or parts of the digital payments pioneer, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday (paywall), citing people familiar with the matter. Stripe, which is privately held and is among the industry’s most valuable companies, has expressed a preliminary interest in a potential acquisition of PayPal or its assets,…
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images PayPal has signed a deal with OpenAI to have its digital wallet embedded into ChatGPT so users can pay for items found through the leading consumer AI tool, the company told CNBC exclusively. Shares of the company jumped as much as 13% on the news. The agreement, sealed…
