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 […]
The Web3 revolution is slowly taking over the internet. The past few years have seen more companies embracing the potential of a decentralized web following the debut of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Web3 is a new iteration of the Internet that […]
Just yesterday, billionaire rapper and fashion designer Kanye West agreed to buy the free-speech social media platform, Parler as part of the effort “to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.” It didn’t take long before Tesla […]
Walken is a rising star in the move-to-earn industry and a gaming startup that connects real-life sports activities with online gaming and earning crypto. We covered Walken last month when the company unveiled a new roadmap and shared in-game statistics. Today, the […]
After a great year for tech, the industry now faces a new crisis as layoffs and hiring freezes hit the sector. As of the middle of October, more than 44,000 US tech workers have already lost their jobs, with more almost certainly […]
Vodafone has joined forces with the French telco giant Altice to launch FibreCo, a joint venture that will deploy a broadband network to seven million homes in Germany. As part of the agreement, the new startup company FibreCo aims to […]
TikTok rival Triller becomes the latest company to join the metaverse bandwagon with the launch Monday of Metaverz, a new metaverse that provides virtual spaces where users can gather to watch live music and sporting events. In an exclusive report […]
Billionaire rapper and fashion designer Kanye West has agreed to buy the Twitter alternative and the free-speech social media platform, Parler. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. On Monday, Parlement Technologies, the company behind Parler, said it […]
The multi-award-winning Sony music producer and songwriter MAFFIO today released the video for his single “Blessings,” which is part of his most recent album “Eso Es Mental.” The video was released in collaboration with the metaverse platform, CEEK. In partnership with CEEK, […]
Australia’s Woolworths Group announced Friday that the data of 2.2 million customers of a website it owns has been exposed. The company said its majority-owned online retailer owned, MyDeal, “identified that a compromised user credential was used to gain unauthorized access to […]
In June 2021, the Latin American nation of El Salvador made history to become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as a legal tender after Congress approved President Nayib Bukele’s proposal to embrace the world’s most popular […]
NYDIG, a bitcoin company that offers Bitcoin services to institutions and banks like JP Morgan, has laid off some of its employees. NYDIG laid off about a third of its total workforce last month to cut costs, The Wall Street Journal reported […]
China’s technology juggernaut ByteDance appears to be making its foray into the music-streaming business to take on podcast giant Spotify. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is currently in talks with music labels to expand its […]
Cariad, a software unit of German automaker Volkswagen, announced today it is acquiring a 60% stake in China’s AI chips maker Horizon Robotics for $2 billion as the company aims to tackle two big challenges: software and the Chinese market. Horizon Robotics, a […]
In what everyone thought was a joke, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced yesterday that his tunnel-digging venture, The Boring Company, is now selling a cologne called Burnt Hair. Musk first teased the product yesterday and became available for purchase late Tuesday. “The […]
Microsoft today announced the launch of Designer, a simple graphic design app that will be available for free and as part of Office productivity software subscriptions, the tech giant said Wednesday. The Designer app is part of Microsoft’s attempt to capture […]