Tech
How Payment Processor Stripe Became Silicon Valley’s Hottest Startup

The pandemic threatened to clobber Stripe Inc. Instead, it turbocharged the company. Stripe processes payments for e-commerce companies, keeping a tiny cut of each purchase as a fee for its services. When stay-at-home orders early in the pandemic caused spending to plunge and refund requests to skyrocket, the outlook wasn’t great. Then everything moved online. […]

Updated: Apr 13, 2021
How Fitbit, Whoop and Other Gadgets Are Measuring Brain Activity, Glucose and Sleep

Since September, Jeanette Cajide has armed herself with an Elite heart-rate variability monitor. And a temperature-controlled mattress pad. And a Levels continuous glucose monitor. And an Oura Ring that also measures heart-rate variability along with resting heart rate, respiratory rate and temperature. “Yeah, I’m a little crazy on the devices,” says Ms. Cajide, director of […]

Updated: Apr 12, 2021