Remitly, the Seattle international money transfer company, is teaming up with Visa to give people sending money abroad a new option. The companies today unveiled a plan to let people… Read More
Leaders of more than 120 U.S. companies are speaking out against what they see as an effort to dramatically curb legal immigration into the United States without approval from Congress.… Read More
The Department of Justice is pressing charges against the CEO of two Bellevue, Wash., technology staffing firms claiming he faked more than 100 applications for H-1B visas, the type tech… Read More
Jansi Kumar immigrated from India to the United States in 2016 because of a promise. She would be allowed to work. Her husband was already living in America on an H-1B… Read More
President Donald Trump plans to sign a series of executive orders today aimed at cracking down on abuse of the work visa program that tech companies rely on to hire talent… Read More
A new set of guidelines, issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Friday, requires computer programmers to provide additional evidence that they have specialized skills to qualify for an… Read More
One of Donald Trump’s first priorities in office has been to restrict the entry of foreigners into the U.S. But while he’s so far focused on refugees and individuals from… Read More
IBM is partnering with credit card giant Visa to spread the use of its IBM Watson supercomputing and artificial intelligence technologies into the retail world. According to IBM, consumers will… Read More
Well, that was fast. The Trump administration has reportedly set the wheels in motion to undo former President Obama’s plan to help immigrant entrepreneurs build startups in the U.S., just three weeks… Read More
Get ready for the next billion-dollar fight in the credit card industry. Two small merchants in Florida say the industry’s shift to chip-enabled credit cards has caused them a tenfold… Read More
On its first day of trading as a publicly held company, PayPal’s value soared to $50 billion following its spin-out from eBay. That interest now appears to be fueling a secondary… Read More
Get ready to whip out your Visa card at Costco in 2016. After the news that it was ending its deal with American Express last month, Costco said today that it is… Read More
Finsphere, a Bellevue-based payment services startup, has partnered with Visa to help people with credit cards avoid the embarrassment of having their payment declined when traveling. Called Visa Mobile Location… Read More