Remitly teams up with Visa to enable cross-border money transfers to debit cards Remitly, the Seattle international money transfer company, is teaming up with Visa to give people sending money abroad a new… Read More
Tech leaders denounce new ‘public charge’ policy limiting green card eligibility Leaders of more than 120 U.S. companies are speaking out against what they see as an effort to dramatically curb… Read More
CEO of Seattle-area tech staffing firms arrested in alleged H-1B visa fraud scheme The Department of Justice is pressing charges against the CEO of two Bellevue, Wash., technology staffing firms claiming he faked… Read More
Families brought to U.S. for tech jobs face ‘infuriating and degrading’ delays from USCIS Jansi Kumar immigrated from India to the United States in 2016 because of a promise. She would be allowed to… Read More
Trump plans review to crack down on ‘abuse’ in work visa program relied on by tech companies President Donald Trump plans to sign a series of executive orders today aimed at cracking down on abuse of the work… Read More
New work visa guidelines make it harder for U.S. tech companies to hire engineers A new set of guidelines, issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Friday, requires computer programmers to provide additional… Read More
How the tech industry uses H-1B visas and what could change under President Trump One of Donald Trump’s first priorities in office has been to restrict the entry of foreigners into the U.S. But… Read More
Cash or Watson? IBM and Visa bringing AI-based purchasing to cars, running shoes and other objects IBM is partnering with credit card giant Visa to spread the use of its IBM Watson supercomputing and artificial intelligence… Read More
Trump poised to kill Obama’s plan to allow foreign entrepreneurs to build startups in the U.S. Well, that was fast. The Trump administration has reportedly set the wheels in motion to undo former President Obama’s plan to help… Read More
Merchants face hefty fines over credit card chip switch, allege bank industry conspiracy Get ready for the next billion-dollar fight in the credit card industry. Two small merchants in Florida say the industry’s… Read More
Is PayPal’s strong public market reception fueling interest in Stripe and Square? On its first day of trading as a publicly held company, PayPal’s value soared to $50 billion following its spin-out… Read More
Costco strikes credit card deal with Citi and Visa, shifting away from American Express Get ready to whip out your Visa card at Costco in 2016. After the news that it was ending its deal… Read More
Finsphere teams with Visa to end declined transactions for travelers Finsphere, a Bellevue-based payment services startup, has partnered with Visa to help people with credit cards avoid the embarrassment of… Read More
