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The big tech companies were in the news today as they continue to innovate the way of life. Take a look at the news section to see what the tech magnates are up to. We also got a really cool product review this week; one that helps you with bills!
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Terms of the week: Metaverse
🔥Hottest🔥 Product News!
1. Tesla held an event that sparked a lot of conversation in the techworld🌎. As it continues to innovate artificial intelligence, Tesla announced that they plan to build a humanoid 🤖robot by next year. To institute the idea, Elon brought a man in a ROBOT costume on stage to walk around, machine-like, which was amusing to some people and banal to others. P.S. The robot had some crazy dance moves!
2." Metaverse" is tech's current Buzzword with many executives including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, talking about their plans of embracing the online world. Facebook launched a test of a new virtual-reality remote work app where users of the company’s Oculus Quest 2 headsets can hold meetings as avatar versions👀 of themselves. Gaining dominance in this space, which Facebook bets will be the next big computing platform, will allow it to be less reliant in the future on other hardware makers, such as Apple, the company has said.
3.DigiSure is a digital insurance startup that serves to form factors like peer-to-peer marketplaces, is officially coming out of stealth to announce a $13.1M pre-Series A funding round. They announced the launch of their embedded protection platform to offer instant, individualized micro-insurance policies for better, safe coverage. The round was led by Morado Ventures followed by Valor Equity Partners, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Xplorer Capital, and True North Cos. who also participated in the round. The funds will be used to hire more amazing employees! So check out their page for job opportunities!
Product Review: Prism (8/10)
Bills, Bills, Bills! We all know 'em, we all hate 'em, but we still gotta pay 'em. From car 🚗leases, house leases, credit card💳 payments, & loans, to electricity⚡️ bills, water🛁 bills, & 🏡rent, we all pay a lot of bills. Although it might be time-consuming, we have just the right app to lighten the workload in your day by keeping track of your bills! PRISM is a user-friendly FREE app that lets you get control of your 💵money!💵
Layout: Prism has an easy to use platform with simple features and functions. Navigating through the Prism app is a breeze & upon opening the app, you will see your Home Screen. There are 3 main sections - your bills, money, and inbox.
In the Bills view, you will see all of your upcoming bills and paydays for the month. Using the 📆Calendar View, you can also scroll through each month from left to right. Using the List View, you will see your financial status bar, displaying your income and your expenses. In the 💲Money💲 view, you can view all of your account balances for your bank accounts, credit cards, loans and other accounts. You can also manually sync your balances in real-time to get up to date information. As new events occur (a new bill is posted, you got paid, etc.), you will receive notifications that show up in your Inbox. Prism will keep track of whether you have seen your notifications and by ordering them by when they were received, you can stay on top of everything as it happens.
Function: One of the main pain points that the Prism app addresses is convenience. Rather than having to navigate a maze of different individual companies, each with their own logins, passwords and saved payment information, you’ll have one place where you can keep everything up to date and ensure you aren’t making any late payments. Once you download Prism for your phone or tablet, it will ask you to choose all of your billers. Once you connect them, it will sync your account balances and bills and present them to you directly in Prism. From there, you can pay your bills right from the app!
Prism tracks every bill that you have and sends you daily reminders about due dates. All communication with Prism is encrypted with bank-level security. Sensitive information is not stored on your device, so even if your phone is lost or stolen no one can retrieve your passwords or other personal information via the app. Prism automatically pulls in due dates and balances for over 11,000 billers across the country. If your biller is not on the list, you can request that it be added in the future. In the meantime, you can set a reminder in the app and pay the bill manually each month. You can find your billers on thisdirectory!
Product Hat: Like any app, Prism deals with its fair share of complaints on update issues. Some don't enjoy the "feel" of the platform, while others don't like it when Prism doesn't update them on their payment issues. However, they encourage their users to submit suggestions on features and provide feedback on the platform. Some features being worked on behind-the-scenes include: 1. Viewing all your billers at once, along with all bills due, for a comprehensive “at-a-glance” look at your monthly bills. 2. Choosing which billers you want to pay, how much to pay each and what payment method to use all from one, easy-to-view screen. 3.Making payments to different billers using different accounts for maximum control over who you pay, when you pay, and how you pay.
Overall, the app has done really well for itself and continues to evolve its features based on customer interaction. We give this app 8/10. Check it out, and save time!
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