Robinhood

The GameStop stock saga continues, Apple releases more details about its privacy changes and Qualtrics goes public. This is your Daily Crunch for January 28, 2021. The big story: Robinhood restricts GameStop trading Robinhood has responded to an upsurge in retail investors buying shares in companies like GameStop, AMC and Blockbuster by restricting trading on […]

Daily Crunch: Robinhood restricts GameStop trading

This entry was posted in Apps Finance Mobile Robinhood on January 28, 2021 by Anthony Ha

Three of the popular retail stock market trading apps that have hosted much of the activity related to the Wall Street Bets subreddit-spurred run on stocks including GameStop (GME) and AMC, among others, have removed all restrictions on their exchange by their users. M1, Webull and Public had restricted transactions for the affected stocks earlier […]

Webull, M1 and Public remove restrictions on ‘meme stocks’ after ...

This entry was posted in anthony noto California ceo Finance Reddit Robinhood Social TC Yahoo and tagged social media on January 28, 2021 by Darrell Etherington

The GameStop mania didn’t just drive up the stock price of a declining video game retailer, it’s also sent trading apps and others to the top of the App Store, due to record-breaking downloads. Today, the popular trading app Robinhood has become the No. 1 app overall on the App Store for the first time, […]

Robinhood and Reddit top the App Store, as trading apps ...

This entry was posted in app stores Apps Finance Mobile Robinhood on January 28, 2021 by Sarah Perez

Would you pay with a “Google Card?” TechCrunch has attained imagery that shows Google is developing its own physical and virtual debit cards. The Google card and associated checking account will allow users to buy things with a card, mobile phone or online. It connects to a Google app with new features that let users […]

Leaked pics reveal Google smart debit card to rival Apple’s

This entry was posted in Apple Pay Apps eCommerce Finance Mobile payments Robinhood Security TC and tagged google on April 17, 2020 by Josh Constine

What do you do if you’re an event discovery startup and suddenly it’s illegal to attend events? You lean into the cultural shift and pivot. Today, $11 million-funded calendar app IRL is morphing from In Real Life to In Remote Life. It will now focus on helping people find, RSVP for, plan, share, and chat […]

IRL pivots into virtual event calendar In Remote Life

This entry was posted in Apps Facebook Events Google-Calendar Mobile Robinhood Social Startups TC on April 2, 2020 by Josh Constine

It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks. Instead, the co-CEOs write that “the cause of the outage was stress on our infrastructure — which struggled with unprecedented load. That in turn led to a “thundering herd” […]

Robinhood blames record trade volume & itself for outages

This entry was posted in Apps Drama eCommerce Finance Mobile Robinhood Startups TC on March 3, 2020 by Josh Constine

As the company experiences its second day of outages, Robinhood, the popular trading app with a purported 10-million-strong user base and a $7.6 billion valuation, said it will offer compensation for yesterday’s outage on a case-by-case basis, according to a company spokesperson. The company issued a statement early Tuesday documenting that the outage began at around […]