Mark Matousek

Affirm was among last year’s top stock market performers, as the company narrowed its losses and investors cheered deals with Amazon and Walmart that expanded the lender’s reach with shoppers. That marked a dramatic rebound from 2022, when rising interest rates upended Affirm’s business. But ...

Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras. Photo by Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi. Photos via Getty and YouTube.

Klarna launched a subscription service on Wednesday that eliminates fees users pay on some purchases and offers extra rewards points and discounts. The service, called Klarna Plus, costs $7.99 per month.The app is part of the buy now, pay later firm’s effort to get consumers to view it as a shopping portal. Klarna is also working on an automated shopping assistant that will be able to find

PayPal began company-wide layoff on Tuesday, the latest tech company to cut jobs, as a newly appointed CEO looks to cut costs and improve profits.

PayPal is laying off 9% of its staff, the company told employees in an email on Tuesday, as a newly appointed CEO looks to cut costs and improve profits.

PayPal said it expected earnings to drop this year as it continues to work on reining in costs, sending its shares down around 8% in after hours trading on Wednesday.PayPal CEO Alex Chriss, who joined the company in September, has made streamlining the company and boosting its higher margin businesses a priority. PayPal’s revenue rose 9% year over year to $8 billion in the fourth quarter, and

Plaid has hired its first president, Jen Taylor, in a sign that the company is preparing for an initial public offering. Taylor was previously Cloudflare’s chief product officer and had worked for Salesforce, Meta Platforms and Adobe before that.In a post on Plaid’s website, Plaid CEO Zach Perret said Taylor’s “experience scaling products to meet increasing customer demand” would help the

Play philosopher and trauma therapist Gwen Gordon—who began her career building Muppets for Sesame Street—talks about the transformative power of "infinite play."

Author Carol Pearson on how understanding archetypes can lead to a fuller life. Archetypes are universal and give us energy for acting and living.