Online lender Earnest sells to Navient, in a disappointing deal for investors

Earnest, a well-funded fintech startup with bold ambitions to create a modern financial institution, is selling to the student-loan company Navient for $155 million in cash. The WSJ was first to report the news. The exit isn’t so great for Earnest’s investors. They’d plugged roughly […]

New story in Technology from Time: Google Just Announced a Smart Camera That Takes Photos For You

Google just unveiled a new miniature smart camera called Google Clips, which uses artificial intelligence to capture photos for you. Clips will cost $249 and is “coming soon,” Google says. A user could set the camera down or clip it to a piece of furniture, […]

Apple’s Siri Falls Behind in the Virtual Assistant Race It Started

Apple has a reputation for entering markets late—think portable music players or smartphones—and then blowing away competitors with a superior product. When it comes to Apple’s virtual assistant Siri, that storyline appears to be playing out in reverse. Apple revealed Siri with the iPhone 4S […]

Barcellona non molla. “Lunedì l’indipendenza”. Madrid muove l’esercito

Il Parlament di quella Catalogna disobbediente che vuole separarsi da Madrid, lunedì prossimo, col plenum dell'emiciclo, voterà per dichiararsi Stato indipendente. L'ha comunicato, ieri, ai media il partito autonomista Cup (Candidatura d'Unitat Popular). by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from

Founders Fund backs Home61, a real estate platform for the middle class

Most real estate agents are commission-based and incentivized to focus on the big sales. That results in inefficiencies for lower class home buyers, who may have to wait longer to view properties and receive less guidance on paperwork. A Miami-based startup called Home61 has been […]

New story in Business from Time: IRS Gives Equifax Multimillion-Dollar Deal Despite Massive Data Breach

(WASHINGTON) — The company at the center of the biggest breach of personal information just signed a contract with the federal government to provide, well, personal information. The Internal Revenue Service signed a $7.25 million contract with Equifax last month. The no-bid contract, first reported […]