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Aisha S Gani

@aishagani
19 posts
2024-10-17
This is wild. Meta staff are given daily allowances of $20 for breakfast, $25 for lunch and $25 for dinner, with meal credits issued in $25 increments >> Meta fires staff for abusing $25 meal credits https://www.ft.com/...
2024-10-17 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: last week, Meta fired ~24 staff in LA for using $25 meal credits to buy household items, as it restructures WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs teams

The terminations took place last week, just days before the $1.5tn social media company separately began restructuring certain …

2024-09-11
⚡️New: A growing number of Revolut customers are complaining they've been targeted by scammers. The bank says it's trying to strengthen its fight against fraud https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-09-11 View on X
Bloomberg

A surge in alleged scams poses a serious image problem for Revolut, which faces more complaints than all its UK rivals facing authorized push payment scams

The $45 billion challenger bank says it's committed to tackling online fraud as it seeks ‘exponential’ growth.

I also interviewed Revolut's global head of financial crime Woody Malouf, whose 4,000-strong team analyzes half-a-billion customer transactions a month to identify anomalous payments. The firm said it cut fraudulent UK transactions by more than 20% in 2023 https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-09-11 View on X
Bloomberg

A surge in alleged scams poses a serious image problem for Revolut, which faces more complaints than all its UK rivals facing authorized push payment scams

The $45 billion challenger bank says it's committed to tackling online fraud as it seeks ‘exponential’ growth.

I spoke to victims of scams who were tricked in elaborate and sophisticated operations, and made payments that were channeled through multiple bank accounts to criminals. In October, banks will be liable for refunding victims of these scams https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-09-11 View on X
Bloomberg

A surge in alleged scams poses a serious image problem for Revolut, which faces more complaints than all its UK rivals facing authorized push payment scams

The $45 billion challenger bank says it's committed to tackling online fraud as it seeks ‘exponential’ growth.

I obtained Financial Ombudsman Service data that showed how thousands of complaints about APP fraud were piling up against banks, but grievances against Revolut surged halfway through last year [image]
2024-09-11 View on X
Bloomberg

A surge in alleged scams poses a serious image problem for Revolut, which faces more complaints than all its UK rivals facing authorized push payment scams

The $45 billion challenger bank says it's committed to tackling online fraud as it seeks ‘exponential’ growth.

2024-08-21
⚡️New: The UK has a big plan to curb bank payment scams. But the industry says its at risk of misfiring and warns of a fraud bonanza: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-08-21 View on X
Bloomberg

The UK's rules to curb online payment scams, set to roll out on October 7, 2024, face backlash from financial firms, including over insufficient time to adjust

- Critics say firms aren't fully prepared, warn of more frauds  —  Hundreds of financial firms are struggling to comply …

2024-07-02
⚡️New: Revolut said its revenue for 2023 almost doubled to £1.8 billion (or $2.2 billion) as the UK challenger unveiled its latest annual accounts that got a clean bill of health from its auditor: [image]
2024-07-02 View on X
Bloomberg

Revolut's 2023 revenue almost doubled to £1.8B after interest income grew from £83M in 2022 to £500M; auditor BDO gave Revolut's accounts a clean bill of health

- UK fintech's interest income jumps sixfold to £500 million  — Auditor BDO gives financial accounts a clean bill of health

2024-02-22
⚡️Scoop: As Sequoia Capital names a new board member for Klarna, we reveal how disputes between the fintech founders had spilled over into the high-profile VC drama. Story with @mcbridesg and @mhbergen https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-02-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: the Sequoia-Klarna spat stemmed from Klarna co-founders Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Victor Jacobsson, dragging Michael Moritz and Sequoia into the fray

- Disputes within Klarna spilled over into high-profile VC drama  — Sequoia backtracked on plans to boot Moritz from board X: @aishagani and @aishagani X: Aisha S Gani / @aishagani...

We report at the root of the Sequoia/ Klarna board dispute were the simmering disagreements within the fintech company between two of its co-founders, CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Victor Jacobsson https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-02-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: the Sequoia-Klarna spat stemmed from Klarna co-founders Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Victor Jacobsson, dragging Michael Moritz and Sequoia into the fray

- Disputes within Klarna spilled over into high-profile VC drama  — Sequoia backtracked on plans to boot Moritz from board X: @aishagani and @aishagani X: Aisha S Gani / @aishagani...

2022-10-14
“Amazon sell books on sex and gardening. Nobody calls Amazon an adult bookstore, right?” ⁦@TW_Seal⁩ and I caught up with OnlyFans executives at their office in Soho, as the UK finalises strict new online safety laws https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-10-14 View on X
Bloomberg

OnlyFans exec Keily Blair says the platform wants to move away from its “secretive” past, engage with lawmakers and journalists, and expand beyond adult content

OnlyFans Ltd. executives have mapped out a plan to become more transparent and highlight less-explicit content …

More than 1,000 workers are dedicated to safety, and OnlyFans is hiring between 40 to 50 people per month. Many of those are responsible for moderating the 20 million monthly posts coming from its more than 2 million creators - w/ @TW_Seal & @athomson6 https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-10-14 View on X
Bloomberg

OnlyFans exec Keily Blair says the platform wants to move away from its “secretive” past, engage with lawmakers and journalists, and expand beyond adult content

OnlyFans Ltd. executives have mapped out a plan to become more transparent and highlight less-explicit content …

2022-08-31
Klarna's sharp increase in losses were driven by administrative expenses — the cost of running the business, including paying salaries — which rose to 10.2 billion kronor. Reporting w/ @abhinavvr https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-08-31 View on X
Bloomberg

Klarna reports H1 revenue rose 24% YoY to ~$950M as its net loss more than trebled YoY to ~$581M, driven by admin expenses; cash reserves halved to ~$876M

Klarna Bank AB said spending on its platform increased in the first half of the year, along with losses, as it invested in expanding in the US.

“We've had a few years now where growth has been really heavily prioritized by investors. Now, understandably, they want to see profitability,” @klarnaseb said in a statement
2022-08-31 View on X
Bloomberg

Klarna reports H1 revenue rose 24% YoY to ~$950M as its net loss more than trebled YoY to ~$581M, driven by admin expenses; cash reserves halved to ~$876M

Klarna Bank AB said spending on its platform increased in the first half of the year, along with losses, as it invested in expanding in the US.

2022-03-10
• Just 12% of unicorns, companies that reach $1 billion valuation, have had any women on their founding teams • Female founders secured only 2% of venture capital in the U.S. • Women of colour receive even a smaller slice of VC funding https://www.bloomberg.com/... #IWD2022
2022-03-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Orlando-based Stax, which offers flat-fee subscriptions for processing business payments, raises $245M from investors including Blue Star at a $1B+ valuation

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg :

2022-03-02
Wonder what message this gives to the Rohingya and Ethiopians who see posts inciting hatred everyday on their feeds. Aren't their situations [ie ethnic cleansing] exceptional? https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-02 View on X
Axios

Meta says it “will be restricting access to RT and Sputnik across the EU at this time” following requests from several governments and the EU

Wonder what message this gives to the Rohingya and Ethiopians who see posts inciting hatred everyday on their feeds. Aren't their situations [ie ethnic cleansing] exceptional? https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-02 View on X
MacRumors

Apple pauses all product sales in Russia, removes RT News and Sputnik News from the App Store outside Russia, and disables Apple Maps' live traffic in Ukraine

Apple today confirmed that it has stopped all product sales from its online website in Russia, which means customers in Russia …

2022-02-11
We know little about the original people of the Indus Valley, who at one point constituted nearly 10% of the world's inhabitants. Esp given how much more we know about their contemporaries, such as the people of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations https://restofworld.org/...
2022-02-11 View on X
Rest of World

How researchers are using AI to analyze the undeciphered ancient script of the Indus Valley Civilization, and the challenges of deciphering long-lost languages

Scholars have spent a century trying to decipher ancient Indus script.  Machine learning may finally help make sense of it all.

2021-10-22
The interactive and visual storytelling in this article shows just how staggering the censorship is https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-10-22 View on X
New York Times

Russia says its deep packet inspection tech is now installed at 500 telco locations, covering 100% of mobile traffic and 73% of broadband

Russia's boldest moves to censor the internet began in the most mundane of ways — with a series of bureaucratic emails and forms.

2021-06-14
Working conditions in China's booming tech industry are such that software developers launched the campaign “996 ICU”: Working 9am to 9pm, six days a week - as some managers demand - will have you end up in intensive care https://www.ft.com/...
2021-06-14 View on X
Financial Times

A new generation of young workers at China's technology giants is demanding an end to forced rankings, harsh working conditions, and the “996” work culture