Orchard Platform Is Disrupting Financial Services From The Inside Out

Just a few months ago, based on media headlines alone, it would have appeared that marketplace lending was dead. The founder of the world’s largest marketplace lender (LendingClub) and pioneer of the space itself, Renaud Laplanche, was abruptly fired over evidence of fulfilling faulty loans, sinking the share price of LC and prompting some to draw parallels to the financial crisis or question the durability of the entire industry.

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Samsung’s Note 7 Recall Process Has Been Great In the US, But Terrible In Asia

It’s been nearly a week since Samsung announced the global recall of the Galaxy Note 7, and while Americans already have all the relevant information on just how they’re going to swap their potentially-explosive device for a new one, many in Asia are still completely left in the dark.

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Livestream: Watch Sony’s PS4 ‘Slim’ And ‘Neo’ Playstation Event Right Here

Sony is hosting a big show in New York City as the company plans to unveil two new versions the PS4: both a slightly redesigned “slim” version as well as a more mysterious “Neo,” an upgraded version of the base console designed to play the same games with better graphics and possibly native 4K resolution. You can watch it all on the livestream right here.

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