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Jack Dorsey’s Square acquires Australia’s buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) company Afterpay for $29 billion

Nickie Louise Posted On August 1, 2021

Jack Dorsey’s payments company Square announced it has acquired Australian buy now pay later (BNPL) fintech company Afterpay for $29 billion. In an announcement on Sunday, AfterPay said Square has agreed to acquire all of the issued shares in Afterpay by way […]

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Does high viral load in vaccinated people have anything to do with ADE (Antibody-Dependent Enhancement) caused by waning immunity?

Daniel Levi Posted On August 1, 2021

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced yesterday in its recent report that the high viral load in vaccinated people infected during the recent outbreak in Massachusetts demonstrated that “vaccinated people with breakthrough infections can spread the Delta variant” […]

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Kindred Group acquires Relax Gaming in a €295 million mega deal

Daniel Levi Posted On July 31, 2021

The Kindred Group has made a name for itself as a leading iGaming operator, which includes 9 of the biggest names including Unibet, Maria Casino, and 32Red. As the company expands its online presence and branding, Kindred Group announced it […]

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Trevor Milton, founder of the electric vehicle company (Nikola) with zero sales, charged with criminal fraud and two counts of securities fraud

Nickie Louise Posted On July 30, 2021

As you may recall, Nikola founder Trevor Milton resigned from the electric vehicle company in September 2020 as SEC continued its investigation over short seller’s claims that the hydrogen-electric truck startup misled investors. Milton may go down in what some describe […]

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Amazon fined $887M by European privacy watchdog for sharing customer information with third parties without their consent

Nickie Louise Posted On July 30, 2021

Early this month, France’s Competition Authority (FCA) fined Alphabet’s Google $593 million (500 million euro) for violating the French regulator’s orders to negotiate paid deals with news publishers in France. The new orders came after complaints from publishers that Google was sidestepping […]

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Delivery tech startup Gopuff raises a whopping $1 billion in funding, pushing its valuation to $15 billion

Daniel Levi Posted On July 30, 2021

The U.S. government continues to print money with no sign of slowing down. With trillions of dollars floating around, the U.S. dollar continues to lose its value and savvy investors are looking for ways to invest their money in emerging […]

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Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink raises $205M from Google Ventures, others to implant wireless chips into human brain and cure diseases

Daniel Levi Posted On July 30, 2021

As you may recall, in the summer of last year Elon Musk demonstrated Neuralink’s AI-powered brain implant in live pigs. During the demonstration, Musk showed the uses and applications of Neuralink with three pigs implanted with Link V0.9 chips. Musk […]

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A new Pfizer-funded study found that Pfizer vaccine effectiveness drops to 84% after 4 to 6 months

Nickie Louise Posted On July 29, 2021

Last week, a new study from Israel found that the Pfizer vaccine is only 39% effective at stopping the Delta variant. A recently released report from the Israel Health Ministry showed that while the Pfizer vaccine is still 88% effective […]

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Covid vaccines minted 9 new biotech billionaires as Pfizer CEO now says booster dose will “likely” be needed every 6 months

Daniel Levi Posted On July 29, 2021

Who said you can’t make billions while saving lives? That’s the case with startup founders, doctors, scientists, and founders of pharmaceutical companies behind the covid-19 vaccines. Thanks to the pandemic, the new vaccines have now created at least nine new […]

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Texas-based SaaS tech startup OneDay gets $19M funding to empower businesses to become storytellers through video

Nickie Louise Posted On July 29, 2021

We are all passionate about preserving legacies, building human connections, and telling amazing stories-and that drives everything that we do. Enter OneDay, a Dallas, Texas-based video platform that is changing the way businesses and individuals use videos to tell stories. In […]

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Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya backs UK insurance tech startup Flock with $10M investment as it pivots from drones to cars

Daniel Levi Posted On July 29, 2021

Flock, a London-based insurance tech startup, announced today it has raised $17 million in Series A funding to reinvent insurance for connected vehicles. The round was led by billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya, an early Facebook executive turned tech investor. Palihapitiya is a […]

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Fintech startup and commission-free trading app Robinhood raises $2.1 billion in IPO at a $31.8B valuation

Daniel Levi Posted On July 29, 2021

The moment that market watchers had been waiting for finally arrived yesterday after fintech startup and commission-free trading app Robinhood made its market debut yesterday. The startup raised $2.1 billion in its initial public offering on Wednesday valuing the company at a […]

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Meet hi, a new financial services platform that lets you send and receive funds on Whatsapp, and Telegram

Daniel Levi Posted On July 29, 2021

Financial services empower most communities, although the current ecosystem does not support this course completely. Traditional financial services offered by institutions such as banks and investment firms are largely inaccessible to most people, especially in developing economies. According to the […]

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SoftBank leads a $105M investment in Class, an EdTech startup that enhances virtual and hybrid classrooms by adding teaching and learning tools to Zoom

Daniel Levi Posted On July 28, 2021

Last year in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, millions of students around the world were forced to attend classes online and continue their schooling remotely from home. With no standard video conferencing tool for students, some schools used Google classroom […]

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Language learning app Duolingo pops 36% on IPO debut, valuing the EdTech startup at nearly $5 billion

Daniel Levi Posted On July 28, 2021

We wrote about Duolingo two days ago after the language learning app and the world’s most popular language-learning platform raised its IPO price target from the previous range at $85 to $95 per share to $95 and $100 each. Increasing the target […]

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The Crypto Landscape Is About To Change Forever – Here Are 5 Things Investors Need To Know

Andrei Poliakov Posted On July 28, 2021

It should come as no surprise that inflation is upon us. Covid lockdowns led to slow economic growth. This in turn led to extremely high levels of money printing around the world. As money printing increased, investors turned to various asset […]

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