The battle for BNPL buyers and other TC news

Welcome back to the TechCrunch podcast, where you’ll hear everything you need to know about the week’s top tech stories from the people who wrote them. This week, we’ll talk with Mary Ann Azevedo about two fintech giants, Affirm and Stripe, the partnership and what it means for competitors, while Brian Heater will announce next week’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. As always, you’ll get a rundown of the week’s top stories on TechCrunch.

Articles from the issue:

• Confirm Teaming With Stripe As BNPL Wars Intensify
• What to expect from Apple’s WWDC 2022 keynote?

Other news of the week:

• Sheryl Sandberg steps down as Meta COO
• Former OpenSea CEO arrested and charged with NFT insider trading
• a16z-backed company Loom lays off 14% of employees a year after becoming a unicorn
• SWVL plans to lay off 32% of its team two months after going public
• Tech layoffs top 15,000 in brutal May