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Global venture capital funding in the fintech sector grew 27% year-on-year in 2025 to $51.8 billion; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% year-over-year (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 4, 2026

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Ant Group’s Ant International grew its revenue by 20-25% in 2025 to an estimated $3.7 billion, or about 10% of Ant’s total revenue in 2025, as it competes with Visa (Jing Yang/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 7, 2026

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GWI: LinkedIn’s 2025 revenue grew from $7 billion in 2020 to $17 billion as users doubled to 1.3 billion; 4.7% of U.S. users checked more than once per day in 2025, up from 3.9% in 2020 (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 7, 2026

Stuwoo / Wall Street Journal: GWI: LinkedIn’s 2025 revenue grew from $7 billion in 2020 to $17 billion as users…

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Lou Gerstner, former IBM CEO and chairman credited with turning the company around, dies at 83; IBM’s market value grew from $29 billion to about $168 billion during his tenure (Patrick Oster/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 28, 2025

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Salesforce: Black Friday online sales grew 6% year-over-year to $79 billion globally, including $3 billion in U.S. sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: U.S. online sales increased 9.1% to $11.8 billion (Joan Verdon/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 29, 2025

Jeanne Verdon / Forbes: Salesforce: Black Friday online sales grew 6% year-over-year to $79 billion globally, including $3 billion in…

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Report: Private financing for Southeast Asia’s digital economy grew 15% year-on-year, behind global growth of 25%, to $7.7 billion in the 12 months to June 2025, 70% below the 2021 peak of $27 billion (Jun Yuan Yong/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 11, 2025

Jun Yuan Yong / Reuters: Report: Private financing for Southeast Asia’s digital economy grew 15% year-on-year, behind global growth of…

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Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat second-quarter forecasts driven by strong demand for analog chips used in AI data centers (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1 million input tokens and $30/1 million output tokens, double the price of GPT-5.4; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1 million input tokens and $180/1 million output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Manila-based Salmon, a consumer credit app targeting underbanked Filipinos, raised $60 million in equity and $40 million in debt; it has raised $310 million to date, including $160 million in equity (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Lyft agrees to buy London-based black cab app Gett, its third acquisition in the past year, as the company expands its presence beyond the United States (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

SpaceX’s S-1 extracts list “manufacturing our own GPUs” among the “substantial capital expenditures” it is undertaking, with the amount of the expenditure to be determined (Reuters)

Browsing: grew

Global venture capital funding in the fintech sector grew 27% year-on-year in 2025 to $51.8 billion; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% year-over-year (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Ant Group’s Ant International grew its revenue by 20-25% in 2025 to an estimated $3.7 billion, or about 10% of Ant’s total revenue in 2025, as it competes with Visa (Jing Yang/The Information)

GWI: LinkedIn’s 2025 revenue grew from $7 billion in 2020 to $17 billion as users doubled to 1.3 billion; 4.7% of U.S. users checked more than once per day in 2025, up from 3.9% in 2020 (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)

Lou Gerstner, former IBM CEO and chairman credited with turning the company around, dies at 83; IBM’s market value grew from $29 billion to about $168 billion during his tenure (Patrick Oster/Bloomberg)

Salesforce: Black Friday online sales grew 6% year-over-year to $79 billion globally, including $3 billion in U.S. sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: U.S. online sales increased 9.1% to $11.8 billion (Joan Verdon/Forbes)

Report: Private financing for Southeast Asia’s digital economy grew 15% year-on-year, behind global growth of 25%, to $7.7 billion in the 12 months to June 2025, 70% below the 2021 peak of $27 billion (Jun Yuan Yong/Reuters)