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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. The first he calls internal momentum: “How fast are we moving as an organisation?

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With over 1.3 million users, Nigerian-based fintech FairMoney wants to replicate growth in India

TechCrunch

” FairMoney, founded by Laurin Hainy , Matthieu Gendreau and Nicolas Berthozat , is a licensed online lender that provides instant loans and bill payments to underserved consumers in emerging markets. The company is working towards getting a microfinance bank license to operate as the former in Nigeria.

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Nordic neobank Lunar raises $77M at $2B valuation, launches crypto trading platform and B2B payments

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Lunar has a full banking license (setting it apart from a number of other neobanks, which operate on other banks’ rails), and it offers checking and deposit accounts; loans and other credit services like buy now, pay later; stock, fund and ETF investing for consumers; plus business accounts, loans and financial management for SMBs.

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Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A

TechCrunch

Instead of the studio model (quite popular among gaming companies in Africa), Carry1st sought to become a regional publisher, thereby opening the continent to international studios. They include Sweden’s Raketspel (the company has more than 120 million downloads across its portfolio), Cosi Games and Ethiopia’s Qene Games.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. The first he calls internal momentum: “How fast are we moving as an organisation?

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Xbox Series X and S: everything you need to know about the next-gen of Xbox

The Verge

They’re also both backwards compatible with all officially licensed Xbox One accessories like controllers and headsets — although there are no plans to support the Kinect camera. And yet, the disc-based X also has double the amount of internal storage with 1TB as opposed to 512GB, and more RAM at 16GB compared to 10GB.

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HBO Max is coming to parts of Europe on October 26th

The Verge

Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain, and Andorra are the first six countries it’ll be available in, before it expands to the following 14 territories next year: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

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