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We spend 90,000 hours of our lives at work. And we’re at a crossroads. A fork in the road created by AI, tech, outsourcing and the brutality of the end of the regime of industrial capitalism. It’s worth talking about. Thanks for leading. source

With Equifax in its sights, TransUnion invests $24M in income verification platform Truework

Founded in 2017, San Francisco-based Truework integrates with third-party services, such as payroll providers, to help mortgage providers and similar lenders verify users and approve loans directly from within their own applications. It can also be used by landlords or would-be employers to carry out background checks. “Having both data sets accessible via the same […]

Vodafone and Three plan to merge in the UK in a $19B deal (if regulators approve)

The companies said there is “no cash consideration to be paid” in this merger and it would also include debt from both businesses. The combined business, if calculated using today’s users numbers, would have around 28 million subscribers — Vodafone has nearly 18 million and Three has just over 10 million as of May 2023) […]