In early December 2022, the EU privacy watchdog ruled that Meta cannot run advertising based on personal data and will need users’ consent to do so, according to a report from Reuters, citing a person familiar with the matter. Now, the hammer […]
Coinbase is making headlines again but not for the reasons the U.S.-based crypto exchange would like. Today, Coinbase Global has reached a $100 million settlement with New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS), the exchange and the regulator said in statements […]
Headlines are filled with stories of businesses and organizations falling victim to data breaches. Data breaches have been on the rise for a number of years, and sadly, 2022 has been littered with thefts of sensitive information, affecting companies and […]
“We hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we’re now facing.” Salesforce announced Wednesday it is laying off 10 percent of its over 70,000 employees. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Salesforce said it plans to reduce […]
Nexus Circular, an Atlanta-based waste management and energy production company, has raised $150 million in equity funding led by Cox Enterprises. The latest financing will enable Nexus to build additional capacity to serve its expanding customer base and meet the outsized […]
Great companies are made during a recession, so the saying goes. When we look back at major recessions throughout history, we found that some of today’s best-known US companies like FedEx, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Walt Disney, got their early starts during past […]
Solana was once touted as an Ethereum killer, in part because of its eco-friendlier approach, high scalability, lower cost, and faster transaction speeds. But 2022 turned out to be the worst year for the one darling of the “Proof of […]
Happy New Year! Last year, ChatGPT dominated the news, sparking a flurry of excitement and infinite possibilities as over a million users signed up for the new OpenAI’s dialogue-based AI chatbot that does almost everything—from writing codes, and telling stories […]
Early this year, we wrote about COTI Network after the organization announced its plan to create a new token standard for stablecoins issued on the new COTI’s MultiDAG 2.0 Layer, that will be the equivalent of the ERC20 token standard […]
”It’s morally wrong, in my opinion, for us not to be doing this,” that was a statement made by the founder of Make Sunsets about why his startup has to block the sun to save us from the climate apocalypse. […]
In October, Grocery delivery startup Instacart postponed its much-anticipated IPO as stock market volatility, soaring inflation, and interest rates left investors worried about growing volatility in capital markets. The company had planned to go public this year but decided to shelve […]
From the FTX scandal to tech layoffs, it has been an intense year, to say the least. If 2021 was the year of cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and massive funding for startups, 2022 was the complete opposite. This year, tech companies, large […]
We’re living in extraordinary times of artificial intelligence (AI). Things you saw in Sci-fi movies years ago are already becoming a reality. Two years ago, OpenAI shocked the world with the launch of its Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (popularly known as GPT-3), […]
Back in 2018, we wrote about the then-Facebook after the social media giant gave third parties, including British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, access to users’ personal data without their consent. At the time, Facebook revealed that up to 87 million of […]
Quick Take Astar Network named the Product of the Year at the JBA Annual Blockchain Award. Astar Network’s founder, Sota Watanabe, bagged the ‘Person of the Year’ award for the second time in a row. The JBA comprises some of the leading […]
Often, the process of creating and publishing a new crypto project can feel like the hardest part. While there are definitely challenges when coming up with a new crypto that has real usability, this is, unfortunately, only one piece of […]
As it looks to continue to offer the first-of-its-kind platform that makes the sales demos process seamless and automated, Walnut has bulked up its executive team with the addition of Eyal Erez the former Spotify director, as Vice President of Research and Development […]
Early this month, we wrote about after BNB Chain-based protocol Ankr announced it was hit by a multi-million dollar exploit on December 1. The attack appeared to have first been discovered by on-chain security analyst PeckShield after it reported in […]
Despite the bear market that we are experiencing in the market, the crypto industry is seeing record turnouts in Asian countries, as seen by the turnout across various events during Taipei Blockchain Week in Taiwan. The event comes just a month […]
Karl Sebastian Greenwood, the co-founder of the $4 billion crypto pyramid scheme Onecoin, has pleaded guilty to money laundering and wire fraud charges, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said. He now faces up to 60 years in prison. Sebastian Greenwood […]
