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UniX Gaming partners with DAO Maker & SL2 on its new IGO Launchpad, and it’s a big deal

Nickie Louise Posted On April 27, 2022

With a couple of all-star names backing its new launchpad effort, UniX Giaming looks well set to offer some of the hottest, most promising IGO opportunities that will ever emerge in the play-to-earn gaming space. Final Round is one of […]

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Tesla lost over $100 Billion of its market value after Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase

Nickie Louise Posted On April 26, 2022

As you may recall, a little over a year ago Tesla lost 20% of its market value two weeks after spending $1.5 billion to purchase bitcoin. Tesla stocks recovered about a month later. Now, history is about to repeat itself. […]

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Chinese AR startup Nreal is launching its smart glasses in the UK this spring as it looks to expand into the metaverse

Nickie Louise Posted On April 26, 2022

In 2016, Google caused quite a stir with its smart glasses before they eventually fizzled out. But now, one Chinese augmented reality (AR) glasses startup is trying to breathe new life into augmented reality (AR) glasses as metaverse gains mainstream adoption. Today, Chinese augmented reality […]

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CXIP Labs unveils “Holograph” Omnichain NFT Protocol, raises $6.5 million in funding led by Vaynerfund and Diplo, more

Nickie Louise Posted On April 26, 2022

Omnichain NFTs have become the latest buzzword in the Web3. Everyone’s talking about it since Canada-based tech startup LayerZero Labs started building the interoperability protocol LayerZero, a transport layer for messaging that allows smart contracts to easily communicate among many or any blockchains. […]

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Women-led NFT poetry gallery theVERSEverse receives grant to build the future of literature and poetry’s home in the metaverse on Tezos

Nickie Louise Posted On April 26, 2022

The metaverse is no longer a fad and it’s becoming inescapable. Since Facebook changed its name to Meta, no day goes by without another headline about the metaverse. The talk about the metaverse is slowly making its way into everyday […]

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Polkadot Decoded 2022 Will Be Hosted In Five Cities Across Four Continents

Nickie Louise Posted On April 26, 2022

Cryptocurrency events and summits are back in fulls wing after two years of COVID-19 restrictions. Polkadot Decoded 2022 shapes up to be a significant event for the Polkadot ecosystem. It will be held in five major cities across four continents, […]

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Ferrum Network rolls out its Staking-as-a-Service solutions on the Algorand Blockchain

Nickie Louise Posted On April 26, 2022

Early this month, we featured a story about the top 4 Blockchain-as-a-Service providers to know about in 2022. One of the less known providers is Ferrum Network, a tech startup that provides a Staking-as-a-Service offering, which helps to solve issues around token […]

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SonarSource raises $412 million in funding for its coding platform for developers; hits a $4.7 billion valuation

Nickie Louise Posted On April 26, 2022

Maintaining a clean software codebase has been one of the biggest challenges facing software developers for decades. Over the years, complex codebases have been slowing developers down for many years because as codebases grow, there’s a lack of shared understanding of […]

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Twitter CEO to receive $42 million if fired by Elon Musk

Nickie Louise Posted On April 25, 2022

A few hours ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk struck a deal to buy social media giant Twitter for $44 billion. At the time, little was known about the details of the acquisition. But now, we’re getting more insights about the […]

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Twitter CEO to address all employees at 2 PM Pacific Time; reports of Twitter employees having mental breakdowns

Nickie Louise Posted On April 25, 2022

Twitter announced this afternoon that CEO Parag Agrawal is going to address all employees at 2 PM Pacific Time. The announcement comes just about an hour after the company agreed to be sold to Elon Musk in a $44 billion deal. […]

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Twitter sold to Elon Musk for $44 billion; to go private after the deal

Nickie Louise Posted On April 25, 2022

It’s official: Twitter has been sold to Elon Musk and will go private after agreeing to a $44 billion deal. Once completed, the world’s richest person will own arguably the most influential social platform in the world. In a news release by […]

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Facebook unveils Meta Store, its first retail store to showcase VR headsets for its metaverse

Nickie Louise Posted On April 25, 2022

About two weeks, Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms announced a key part of its plan for its highly ambitious metaverse effort. The company said it has begun to test tools for selling digital assets and experiences within its virtual reality platform […]

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Self-driving tech startup Pony.ai gains taxi license in China to become the first autonomous driving taxi company in the country

Nickie Louise Posted On April 25, 2022

It’s been over three years since we last covered Pony.ai, a Toyota-backed Pony.ai self-driving tech startup that uses artificial intelligence and robotics to provide autonomous mobility and change the transportation industry as we know it. A lot has changed since our last […]

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Twitter set to accept Musk’s $43 billion ‘best and final’ offer: Reports

Nickie Louise Posted On April 25, 2022

Twitter is nearing a deal to sell itself to Tesla CEO Elon Musk for $54.20 per share in cash, according to an exclusive report from Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter. The amount is the same as what Musk […]

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Thomson Broadcast acquires GatesAir to revolutionize the broadcast industry

Nickie Louise Posted On April 25, 2022

Thomson Broadcast, a Paris, France-based that’s shaping the transmission market in both TV and radio, has acquired GatesAir, a wireless, over-the-air content delivery solution for radio and TV. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. In an announcement on […]

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How to make the most profit playing play-to-earn games

Nickie Louise Posted On April 25, 2022

Play-to-earn gaming introduces a new paradigm where gamers can make money by spending hours in a virtual environment. Whether they play against programmed enemies or other players, there are rewards to be unlocked. Finding the right games to maximize your […]

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This Microsoft’s patent will let you mine bitcoin using your brain activity

Nickie Louise Posted On April 24, 2022

Last year, bitcoin miners earned a record hourly revenue of $4 million as the price of bitcoin exploded to an all-time high of $69,000, according to data from blockchain analytics firm Glassnode. The amount was the highest hourly miner revenue in Bitcoin’s history. Since then, […]

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Kyocera releases an eBook to celebrate Earth Day and its sustainable solutions

Nickie Louise Posted On April 22, 2022

In 1959, Dr. Kazuo Inamori founded Kyocera with the idea to do what’s right as a human being. For Kyocera, that always meant protecting the planet for future generations. As such, when Earth Day was founded, in 1970, April 22nd […]

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Funding secured: Elon Musk confirms a $46.5 billion financing commitment to acquire 100% of Twitter

Nickie Louise Posted On April 22, 2022

Last week, Elon Musk made a $41.39 billion cash offer to buy Twitter. It didn’t take long before Twitter’s Board of Directors adopted a “poison pill” strategy to block Musk from taking over the social media platform. The “poison pill,” […]

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FinTech startup Stripe jumps into crypto with a feature that lets merchants pay their users in cryptocurrency using USDC stablecoin

Nickie Louise Posted On April 22, 2022

About a year ago, fintech startup Stripe launched Stripe Tax to simplify global tax compliance for small businesses and merchants. The new Stripe Tax automates tax calculation and collection for transactions on Stripe, tells businesses where they need to collect […]

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