Empower: US BNPL use has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating “phantom debt”
* AI bubble — * Wall Street bitcoin — * Private equity bubble — * adding the Buy Now Pay Later bubble, which is ... largely untracked!! — techcrunch.com/2025/11/16/b... this feeds to my theor...
Microsoft backtracks on Windows 11's controversial default browser changes, adds a “set default” button for browsers in a preview build
check out the shady new pop-ups Sayan Sen / Neowin : A welcome change on Windows 11, choosing a default browser gets a bit easier with build 22509 Tweets: Rafael Rivera / @withinrafael : Windows build...
Microsoft backtracks on Windows 11's controversial default browser changes, adds a “set default” button for browsers in a preview build
check out the shady new pop-ups Sayan Sen / Neowin : A welcome change on Windows 11, choosing a default browser gets a bit easier with build 22509 Wayne Williams / BetaNews : Microsoft making it easie...
London-based buy now pay later startup Zilch raises $110M at a $2B valuation led by Ventura Capital; Zilch was last valued at $500M in April
- London-based start-up Zilch has raised $110 million in a round of funding that values it at $2 billion, four times the $500 million it was worth eight months ago.
Berlin-based Billie, a B2B buy now pay later service, raises a $100M Series C at a $640M valuation led by Dawn Capital
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Bangalore-based Capital Float, which offers a buy now pay later service on Amazon and other sites in India, raises $50M Series D led by Lightrock India
Capital Float, an Amazon-backed startup that offers its buy now, pay later service on many popular online platforms in India including …
UK-based Zilch, a buy now pay later service, raises $80M Series B at a $500M+ valuation from Gauss Ventures, M&F Fund, and others
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