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Two European payment startups Hips and Vourity join forces to enable crypto payment for 50,000 EV charging stations across Europe

Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2021

Cryptocurrency continues to gain steam despite recent volatility in the price of bitcoin. Compared to a year ago, about 46 million Americans now own at least a share of Bitcoin — or about 17% of the adult population, according to estimates […]

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Canadian Technology Accelerator partners with Berkeley SkyDeck to host its first U.S. Demo Day to showcase 11 Canada-based early-stage startups

Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2021

Berkeley SkyDeck global accelerator is working with the Canadian Tech Accelerator to showcase eleven Canada-based early-stage startups. The startups will participate today in the Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) program’s first U.S. Demo Day. Eleven Canadian startups will participate today in the […]

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Singapore-based fintech startup Nium expands its payments network into Europe with new Poland corridor

Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2021

Nium, a global payments platform redefining how consumers and businesses can send and receive funds around the world, announced the expansion of its global footprint and global payments network with the opening of an office in one of Europe’s biggest economies […]

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Crypto boom continues as blockchain startup Chainanalysis raises $100M funding at over $4 billion valuation

Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2021

As cryptocurrency becomes more mainstream, so are the threats faced by financial institutions and investors, and governments around the world. As such, government agencies are prioritizing threats like ransomware that abuse it, and cryptocurrency exchanges are seeking a competitive edge. […]

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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Cathie Wood to host “The ₿ Word,” a one-day summit designed to “destigmatize” Bitcoin narratives for business leaders

Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2021

Bitcoin has taken some beating since its all-time high of $64,000 in April to a little to over $33,000 today. Now a group of fintech and tech leaders has launched “The ₿ Word,” a Bitcoin-focused initiative that aims to demystify […]

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Norwegian tech startup Sanity raises $39M to grow its unified content platform for building data-driven content solutions

Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2021

Sanity, a provider of a unified content platform that helps brands treat content as data for transformative digital experiences, announced today that it has raised $39 million in Series B funding led by the VC that bet early on Marketo, Canva, […]

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Andreessen Horowitz launches a $2.2 billion crypto fund to invest in blockchain and digital asset startups

Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2021

Just last week we wrote about Andreessen Horowitz after the Silicon Valley venture capital firm’s foray into tech publishing with the launch of Future.com, a new tech platform that explores how technology is transforming our world—from crypto and biology to gaming and […]

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Visa buys Swedish fintech startup Tink for $2.1 billion

Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2021

Visa announced Thursday that it is acquiring Swedish financial tech startup Tink for $2.1 billion (1.8 billion euros) which includes cash and retention incentives. The deal will help bolster the payment giant’s digital ambitions. The announcement comes after Visa abandoned the bid to buy […]

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Health / HealthTech

WHO official says social distancing and mask mandates to continue indefinitely in order to protect against new variants of COVID-19

Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2021

When we thought we’re finally done with COVID-19, it turns out we’re not out of the woods quite yet. Today, Dr. David Nabarro, a special envoy on coronavirus for the World Health Organisation (WHO), said that social distancing and mask […]

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Founder and creator of the popular McAfee antivirus software John McAfee found dead in a Spanish prison cell

Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2021

John McAfee, the founder of the popular McAfee antivirus software, was found dead on Wednesday. He was 75. Authorities say he died of a suspected suicide. His lawyer also confirmed to ABC News that his client was found dead in a Spanish […]

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The cost of launching a startup or starting a business in every country around the world

Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2021

Even though the cost of launching a startup continues to go down because founders no longer need to spend millions of dollars on expensive software as part of the upfront/CAPEX cost, founders still face many other challenges. The hardest part about […]

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Unearthed post from a now-deleted 2018 tweet from China Daily shows that “China’s Wuhan Lab preserves more than 1,500 different strains of virus”

Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2021

Earlier today, tech investor and co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator Paul Graham, tweeted the following: “Now that a lab leak is becoming the default explanation for the origin of Covid-19, we owe thanks to Alina Chan, who spoke out […]

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Elon Musk, with a net worth of over $156 billion, sold all his homes to live in this 400 square foot house valued at just $50,000

Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2021

Elon Musk’s latest announcement is a further reminder that money is nothing but a tool and not a weapon that you use “As a Service” to improve the quality of your life, people you love, missions and causes you believe […]

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Self-driving truck tech startup Embark is going public via a $5.2 billion SPAC deal

Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2021

In late 2019, we wrote about 50 tech startups with the most chance of becoming unicorns. One of the startups on the list is Embark Trucks, a San Francisco-based tech startup that is building self-driving semi-trucks for freight and logistic services. Fast […]

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Everything we know so far about the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4

Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2021

Smartwatches are the new battlefield for the world’s biggest and best phone manufacturers. Apple and Samsung, the two leaders in the field, have been constantly improving and innovating to try and gain the upper hand in this market. This is also […]

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Electronic Arts acquires mobile videogame studio Playdemic from WarnerMedia for $1.4 billion in cash

Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2021

It was just four months ago that Electronic Arts (EA) acquired gaming developer Glu Mobile for $2.1 billion. Since then, EA has been on a buying spree. Now with billions of dollars war chest, the company just announced another acquisition. This […]

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Software review marketplace G2 raises $157M in Series D funding; achieves unicorn status at over $1 billion valuation with over 1.3 million verified reviews

Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2021

With millions of software and apps out there on the Internet, finding the right software is like looking for a needle in a haystack. That was why G2 (formerly known as G2 Crowd) decided to help organizations find the right software […]

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Delivery tech startup Gopuff continues its acquisition spree; buys Liquor Barn to accelerate its retail expansion

Nickie Louise Posted On June 22, 2021

Thanks to vaccines, the economy is booming again and consumer spending is at a record high as more people leave home to buy services they were unable to buy during the lockdowns. The delivery space has also seen a big increase in […]

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MicroStrategy bought a total of 105,085 bitcoins for $2.741 billion at an average price of ~$26,080 per bitcoin

Nickie Louise Posted On June 22, 2021

Early this month, Virginia-based MicroStrategy announced it was borrowing $400 million to buy more bitcoin even as the company’s stocks plunged from an all-time high of $1292 to $553.72 today. Since then, the price of bitcoin has also fallen from […]

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Watch: Farmers in Montana threw away 700 tons of potatoes and suffered millions of dollars losses due to government Covid-19 mandates

Nickie Louise Posted On June 22, 2021

It’s almost one and a half years since the covid-19 pandemic began in Wuhan China. Here in the United States, the damage caused by this deadly virus is staggering. Apart from over 500,000 precious lives lost to this deadly virus, […]

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