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Meet Gablok, a Belgium startup that helps you build your own home with revolutionary insulated blocks

Nickie Louise Posted On June 12, 2022

As of the second quarter of 2021, the average price of homes in the United States is $349,816. That’s a 20.7% increase from a year earlier when the median was $289,00, according to data from Zillow.com. This price increase is partly […]

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Chinese Espionage Issues with Technology: Why The U.S. Should Finally Step Up

Nickie Louise Posted On June 10, 2022

Although it was already a formidable realm by the 1600s, China has had its share of economic, social, and political downturns. But the Asian Dragon always rose… and rose it did, thanks to trade with other willing nations. China’s modern […]

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Amazon’s 20-for-1 stock split bears this effect on DeFi tokens representing AMZN

Nickie Louise Posted On June 10, 2022

There’s always a correlation between the stock market and cryptocurrency. For instance, as of May this year, the S&P 500 is down this year by 16%, and the tech-laden Nasdaq Composite is off by a bear-market 25%. During the same period, […]

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Goldman Sachs leads a $100 million investment in Spanish sustainable fashion startup Recover; now valued at $1.1 billion

Nickie Louise Posted On June 10, 2022

Some have called it a fashion crime. The amount of waste in the fashion industry is unfathomable until you start peeling the surface. The $2.4 trillion fashion industry — with its short trend cycles and massive production rates — was named […]

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Athens-based talent intelligence startup Bryq raises $4M in Pre-Series A funding to help companies remove unconscious bias from hiring

Nickie Louise Posted On June 9, 2022

Unconscious hiring bias affects job seekers more than most people think. A recent Yale University study found that employers still preferred to hire men over women. Another study conducted by the University of Chicago and MIT found that applicants with white-sounding […]

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xtingles expands its effort to bring wellness into Web3 through Deep Life Labs

Nickie Louise Posted On June 9, 2022

xtingles, the premier launchpad for ASMR NFT collectibles, has announced it is expanding its effort to bring ASMR into Web3 by forming Deep Life Labs (DLL), a parent organization that will help create even richer, more meaningful ASMR experiences and […]

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SubQuery unveils Cosmos Data Indexing via Juno Integration

Nickie Louise Posted On June 9, 2022

Fresh from its recent announcement of its beta version implementation for Avalanche, SubQuery has delivered its latest iteration of multi-chain connectivity with the addition of support for the Cosmos ecosystem, starting with Juno. From today, Juno and other CosmWasm developers […]

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Tether Tokens (USDt) to launch on Tezos blockchain network

Nickie Louise Posted On June 9, 2022

Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin by market capitalization, announced Thursday that it will launch $USDT on the Tezos network, thus expanding the number of blockchain networks supporting the stablecoin to 12. The addition of USDt to Tezos demonstrates its growing momentum […]

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Twitter to comply with Elon Musk’s demand for data on fake accounts, source

Nickie Louise Posted On June 8, 2022

Just two days after Elon Musk’s lawyers sent a letter to Twitter threatening to terminate the $44 billion deal over the inflated user data, Twitter has reportedly agreed to comply with Elon Musk’s bot data demands, according to a report […]

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Immuta secures $100M in Series E funding to grow its automated data governance and privacy platform

Nickie Louise Posted On June 8, 2022

It’s been a while since we last wrote about Immuta, a Boston, MA-based tech startup created based on a mission within the U.S. Intelligence Community to build a platform that accelerates self-service access and control of sensitive data. Back then, Immuta raised […]

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London-based fintech startup Geode Finance raises $3M in Seed funding to provide DAOs with white label Liquid staking solution

Nickie Louise Posted On June 8, 2022

The exponential growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) has led to increased demand for liquid staking as billions in liquidity flow to projects into the DeFi space. Investors and users alike love liquid staking because of the potential to generate passive […]

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Apple jumps on Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) bandwagon to take on PayPal, Klarna, and Affirm

Nickie Louise Posted On June 8, 2022

As you may recall back in March, Apple quietly acquired London-based fintech startup Credit Kudos for $150 million as part of its push to dominate the payments space. Now, the trillion-dollar tech giant is pushing further into finance and getting into the BNPL game with the launch […]

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Cronos launches a $100M-backed Cronos Accelerator Program to support DeFi, and Web3 startups

Nickie Louise Posted On June 7, 2022

Cronos, the first blockchain network that interoperates with both the Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems, is taking the next step in its journey to fund next-generation blockchain efforts and support DeFi, and GameFi startups. Today, the Crypto.com-backed Cronos announced the launch […]

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Could the Emergence of Smart Glasses Retire our Smartphones?

Nickie Louise Posted On June 7, 2022

The rise of the smartphone has been nothing short of meteoric. The watershed moment of the arrival of the iPhone 3 in 2008 sparked a love affair that’s seen millions forge an inseparable connection to their handheld devices which can […]

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Swedish Climate fintech startup Datia raises $3.4M to simplify investors’ transition to sustainable finance

Nickie Louise Posted On June 7, 2022

With many issues facing our world today, businesses and big corporations are no longer just focusing on short-term profit but also on their impacts on society and the world at large. Over the past few years, some of these companies […]

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Israel’s top VC firm Pitango launches First Labs Investment DAO to bridge Web2 and Web3

Nickie Louise Posted On June 7, 2022

Pitango is Israel’s largest venture capital fund and most prominent VC co-founded by the son of the former Prime Minister of Israel Shimon Peres. In the last two years alone, Pitango has invested in more than 20 companies and have 40 active companies […]

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Angel Studios, the streaming platform behind “The Chosen,” raises $5M in just one week to grow its family-friendly app

Nickie Louise Posted On June 6, 2022

Angel Studios, the streaming platform behind the most successful faith-based crowdfunded shows of all time, announced it has met its $5 million funding goal in just one week as it aims to build up its streaming app. The record fundraising, […]

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British tech startup CybSafe raises $28M in Series B funding to use behavioral science and data science to help enterprises prevent security incidents

Nickie Louise Posted On June 6, 2022

After a few months of funding slowdown due to the ongoing global economic downturn, it now appears that funding for technology startups has resumed in earnest as more than a dozen startups have reported raising new funding in the last week […]

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IOVLabs launches its “Everyday DeFi” initiative on Rootstock to onboard the first billion users

Nickie Louise Posted On June 6, 2022

In just four years since its inception, Decentralized finance (DeFi) has gone mainstream as millions of users and investors bypass the centralized traditional banks to trade directly with one another. Unlike the current legacy financial institutions, DeFi aims to facilitate transactions between […]

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Thoma Bravo cuts $1.1 billion from its acquisition price of SAP rival Anaplan, an enterprise software firm started in an English barn

Nickie Louise Posted On June 6, 2022

Back in March, private equity giant Thoma Bravo reported it acquired British enterprise software firm Anaplan for $10.7 billion, which translated to $66 per share in an all-cash transaction. Three months later, Thoma Bravo decided to cut the takeover offer by $1.1 billion to $9.6 […]

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