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CES, Hardware

“Timekettle’s Multilingual Translation Hardware: Allowing Simultaneous Translation for $699”

Personal translation devices have had a hugely transformative decade. It’s easy to imagine a time in the not-so-distance future when real-time, in-person smartphone translation is a ubiquitous commodity. For in-person meetings, two devices are touched together to initiate conversation translation. Remote users dial into the phone number associated with the product to access its translation capabilities. The Timekettle X1 is available online starting today, priced at $699.

Max Chen
January 8, 2024

Fintech, Startups

2023: A Retrospective Look at Fintech Wins and Blunders

As 2023 comes to a close, we’re here to look back at the biggest fintech stories of the year. In April, Apple shared that Apple Card customers in the U.S. could open a savings account and earn interest through an Apple savings account, as reported by Romain Dillet. Another one of our most read stories of the year also involved a financial services giant rather than a startup. X1, which offers an income-based credit card with rewards, had raised a total of $62 million in venture-backed funding. Why X1 in particular over the many other credit card startups out there?