“Pay securely. Here, there, anywhere.” That’s the slogan currently on PayPal’s website, and one of the central promises for digital payments of all kinds. But so far, the promise isn’t accessible “anywhere.”  For instance: Nicaragua.  On the country’s Pacific coast, in a remote beach town, there is a Spanish school called Pie de Gigante. It draws an […]

Kai Ryssdal talks to Sruthijith KK, editor of Quartz India.

When two weeks leads to two months of manufacturing delays.

A new tech venture wants to reel entrepreneurs in as close to Silicon Valley as possible without the need for a visa. The lure is a crusie ship 12 nautical miles off the shore of Half Moon Bay, Calif.