article thumbnail

FastSpring and EBANX Forge Partnership to Expand Pix Payments for Digital Products in Brazil

FastSpring

Pix, Brazil’s instant payment system introduced by the Central Bank of Brazil in 2020, has rapidly gained popularity among consumers as a preferred digital payment method. Director of Payments, Risk, and Compliance at FastSpring. It’s a must-have payment method in Brazil.

article thumbnail

Is What Epic Wants for App Stores What Other Game Developers Actually Want?

FastSpring

As mobile game and app developers gasp for air under a player-gouging 30% duopoly-tax on nearly all mobile game revenue worldwide, Epic Games has emerged as the de facto leader of the gaming community in the fight for open computing on mobile. There were no gatekeepers — just a computer, a player, and a game.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

5 Best Paddle Alternatives in 2024

FastSpring

The company handles transactions for sellers of digital products, providing the infrastructure for global online payments while taking responsibility for tax collection and remittance, fraud prevention, and other aspects of the checkout process. It’s a capable solution, but by no means is Paddle a universal, one-size-fits-all option.

article thumbnail

5 Interesting Learnings from Lightspeed Commerce at $750,000,000 in “ARR”

SaaStr

So one large category of software spend is on Point of Sale systems. But “POS” systems and software are everywhere, and are a lot more than just Toast and Square. But “POS” systems and software are everywhere, and are a lot more than just Toast and Square. But the margins are tough.

article thumbnail

News: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Appeals From Apple and Epic in Antitrust Case

FastSpring

District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected most of Epic’s claims against Apple but ruled in Epic’s favor regarding Apple’s policies against developers sending users outside Apple’s system to make digital purchases. Then in 2023, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed with much of Judge Rogers’ 2021 decision.

article thumbnail

Softwares Transcendem Fronteiras—Por Que o Dinheiro Não?

Andreessen Horowitz

Softwares são globais por natureza e transcendem fronteiras com facilidade—localizar um software pode significar simplesmente traduzi-lo para outro idioma. Além disso, muitas empresas globais de software monetizam serviços financeiros. Read this article in English. / Read this article in Spanish. É o Google.

article thumbnail

UIPath S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Founded in 2005 in Bucharest, Romania, by Daniel Dines and Marius Tirca, the company now operates more than 60 offices housing nearly 3000 employees. UIPath offers software to build robots, programs that automate repetitive work. Robots read pdfs that customers provide and input that data into other computer systems.