Over the past decade, hackers and scammers have stolen over $12 billion in crypto assets. Unfortunately, the trend has accelerated rapidly in 2022. In the first nine months of this year, companies and investors have lost billions to cyber criminals […]
Seqera Labs, a provider of open-source data orchestration and workflow software for life sciences, has raised €22 million in Series A funding led by Addition, with follow-on funding from Talis Capital, Speedinvest, BoxOne Ventures, and Amino Collective. The Barcelona-based Seqera Labs will use […]
Meta’s messaging app WhatsApp is slowly coming back online after a global outage hits millions of users. At around 0900 GMT, WhatsApp reported the issue has been fixed after millions of users reported problems earlier on Tuesday. Outage monitoring site Downdetector […]
CryptoQuant, an on-chain data platform, has become the official provider of on-chain data for CME Group’s Datamine. This on-demand platform allows traditional financial institutions to access detailed historical data. Being the first and only on-chain data provider of CME Datamine […]
On February 24, Russia launched a full-scale military attack on Ukraine. Immediately after the invasion, the United States and Europe imposed hefty sanctions on Russia. The sanctions forced thousands of Russian banks and financial institutions to stop doing business with the […]
While hundreds of tech companies were laying off thousands of their staff, Vietnam’s EV tech startup VinFast announced in August it was hiring 8,000 new employees to further ramp up production and meet the increasing demands for its electric cars. Now, VinFast has […]
A month after MarketAcross was named the official global media partner of the World Crypto Conference to be held in January 2023 in Zurich, Switzerland, the leading global blockchain PR and Marketing firm has just inked another partnership with AIBC in a Europe, […]
As blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) continue to grow in popularity, we are witnessing a dramatic transformation in the art world. This is particularly evident when it comes to digital art, as artists now have a whole new way […]
The metaverse became the latest buzzword late last following the announcement that Facebook has changed its corporate to Meta to reflect its focus on the metaverse, a term originally coined by Neal Stephenson in the dystopian novel “Snow Crash” three decades ago. Since […]
The tech IPO market is facing its worst drought in nearly 20 years amid global economic uncertainty, wars, and looming recession in Europe and the United States. So far this year, only 14 tech companies have floated their shares on stock exchanges […]
The global customer loyalty management market is currently valued at more than $5.57 billion and it is projected to surpass $24 billion by the end of 2028. One of the biggest players is Honey, a shopping and rewards startup PayPal acquired […]
Fortunes, they say, are made during recessions. This is probably the case for Europe’s $9 billion digital bank N26. Just last week we wrote about the German challenger bank N26 after its reported losses climbed 14% to €172.4 million. But the […]
Late last year, retail giant Amazon was fined a record $1.3 billion by Italy’s antitrust watchdog for its abuse of market dominance, as EU antitrust regulators rein in a handful of US big tech companies abusing their monopolies. The fine […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the richest man in the world with a net worth of over $200 billion, surpassing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who now has a net worth of $137 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. However, […]
SnapCommerce, an e-commerce platform that personalizes the mobile shopping experience for users, has rebranded to Super as the six-year-old Silicon Valley startup expands its offering to include fintech. SnapCommerce also renamed its additional offerings in alignment with the new core brand, living […]
Super Apps Holdings announced it will go public in the United States through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) with Technology & Telecommunication Acquisition Corporation in a deal that values the Malaysian payments technology firm at $1.1 billion, the […]
Every year, businesses and organizations around the world spend enormous amounts of money on cybersecurity and data protection, but still lose billions of dollars to data breaches. A recent IBM study conducted by the Ponemon Institute found that data breaches cost […]
Facebook parent company Meta finally admits defeat after many months of antitrust battle that led Britain’s competition regulator to block the $400 Giphy deal. The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued its final verdict on Tuesday ordering Meta to sell its animated […]
Namkoong Whon has stepped down from his position as a Co-CEO of South Korea’s largest mobile chat app Kakao. His resignation comes after a fire at a data center led to a mass outage over the weekend that left 53 million of its messenger users […]
Do Kwon, the founder of Terra and creator of the failed Terra blockchain project, has been hiding from the public eye since May after a dramatic $60 billion LUNA cryptocurrency crypto collapse. In early October, South Korean prosecutors froze $39.6 million in crypto […]