September 2021
PayPal is buying Japanese startup Paidy, marking the latest major tie-up in the fast-growing space of buy now, pay later companies.
The 105,000-square-foot Bel Air estate, known as "The One," was placed into receivership by the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Click below for a deeper dive into all the latest August 2021 stats on homebuyer sentiment from Fannie Mae.

If your brand is what others say about you when you’re not in the room, then you only get to call yourself an influencer if OTHERS call you that first.
As the pandemic drags on, more people are beginning and leaving new jobs without once seeing their colleagues face-to-face, leading to an easy-come, easy-go attitude toward workplaces.
Jetty, a fintech company which aims to give renters flexibility when paying rent, has raised $23 million in a funding round co-led by Citi and Flourish Ventures. The financing brings Jetty’s total raised since its 2016 inception to $78 million.
Opendoor, the online real estate giant that lets people directly buy and sell homes online, has acquired Seattle-based startup Pro.com and San Francisco-based Skylight. Terms of the deals were not…
Bitcoin fell Tuesday after hitting its highest level since May as El Salvador became the first country to adopt the cryptocurrency as legal tender.
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) services from companies like Affirm, AfterPay, and Klarna have been around longer than many of the Gen Zers and Millennials who use the service. What’s important about today’s BNPL is its impact on marketing, not payments.
High-interest loans to house flippers are a hot commodity on Wall Street, but inventory is scarce. Foreclosure moratoriums have shut off a big source, while competition from regular home buyers is stiff.
ibuyer Offerpad quietly became a publicly traded business Thursday, after it merged with a blank check company led by former Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff one day earlier.
Beset by a low budget and little-to-no-advertising support, 'Idiocracy' almost didn’t happen at all. The fact that it exists is a miracle. The fact that it managed to accurately predict the future is just a bonus.
Here’s why car carrier rates surged in August
The Colorado River irrigates farms, powers electric grids and provides drinking water to 40 million people. But as its supply dwindles, a crisis looms.
Those who have been consistently wrong about the dangers of deficits for so long should no longer get the benefit of the doubt. When your core philosophy or a key belief of your ideology is proven wrong — and you refuse to admit error or change — then it is time for everyone else to call out your Bullshit.

