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Twitter prices Blue for Android at $11 per month; launches cheaper annual plan for web users

Daniel Levi Posted On January 19, 2023

Late last year, Twitter relaunched its Blue subscription at $11 per month for iOS users. The relaunch came after Twitter paused the rollout of Twitter Blue following the impersonation abuse from trolls who took advantage of the blue checkmark verification feature. Fast forward […]

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CoinDesk is exploring selling itself as crisis deepens at parent company DCG due to FTX contagion

Daniel Levi Posted On January 19, 2023

The collapse of FTX has rippled across the crypto industry like an earthquake, causing the downfall of other crypto-related startups including BlockFi, Genesis Trading, Galaxy Digital, and Voyager Digital. The latest casualty is CoinDesk, a crypto publication outlet owned by parent […]

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Interactive Demo Products: Walnut, Reprise, Demostack, & Navattic Reviewed

Daniel Levi Posted On January 19, 2023

Product demos in the B2B SaaS world offer so much more than just a showcase of your product’s value. They provide an opportunity to prove that your product is the perfect fit for what potential customers have been searching for […]

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This engineer hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million

Daniel Levi Posted On January 18, 2023

Back in 2011, Stefan Thomas produced an animated video explaining how digital currency works. He was later awarded 7,002 bitcoins for his efforts by a bitcoin enthusiast. Later that year, Thomas forgot the password to his IronKey, the USB hard drive that contains the digital […]

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Coinbase to halt operations in Japan due to ‘volatile market conditions’

Daniel Levi Posted On January 18, 2023

Even with the rising price of Bitcoin, the crypto market is going through turbulent times and no company is immune from the ongoing crypto winter. The plunging value of digital assets amid rising interest rates has led to the collapse and […]

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This startup just made a critical breakthrough in post-quantum encryption over public internet

Daniel Levi Posted On January 18, 2023

Quantum computing and cryptography are two terms we’ve all probably heard of. But what about quantum cryptography or quantum encryption? Quantum cryptography is a new method of data encryption that uses the naturally occurring properties of quantum mechanics to secure and […]

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Most Active Venture Capital Firms: HashKey Capital Listed As Key Active Investor in The Block’s Digital Asset Funding Landscape Report

Daniel Levi Posted On January 18, 2023

HashKey Capital, a global-focused crypto fund, has been named one of the most active venture capital firms in the crypto space in The Block’s Digital Asset Funding Landscape report. The report, which provides the most comprehensive, fact-based and in-depth analysis […]

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Top tech startup news for Tuesday, January 17, 2023: GTX, Microsoft, Mill, N26, Polygon, and Three Arrows

Daniel Levi Posted On January 17, 2023

Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Tuesday, January 17, 2023. Microsoft to fire 11,000 employees, roughly 5% of its total workforce Just three months after confirming it was laying off about 1,000 of its […]

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Polygon partners with Xternity to migrate multiplayer Web3 game Synergy from Solana to Polygon

Daniel Levi Posted On January 17, 2023

Fresh off its partnership with Ankr to enhance the web3 building experience for supernet developers, Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Polygon announced today it has joined forces with Web3 gaming development platform Xternity to migrate and onboard a multiplayer Web3 game — Synergy Land […]

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Web3 funding plummets by 74 percent

Daniel Levi Posted On January 17, 2023

The decentralized web or Web3 has grown at a rapid pace in the last two years. From its glory days of static pages or Web 1.0, the Internet quickly evolved to Web 2.0 which brought platforms and user-generated content such […]

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Founders of bankrupt Three Arrows Capital launch GTX, a new platform for crypto debt claims; seeking to raise $25M seed round

Daniel Levi Posted On January 17, 2023

The founders of the bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) are making a second go at crypto after the troubled startup was ordered into liquidation in June by a court in the British Virgin Islands. According to an exclusive by […]

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MoviePass returns from the dead with seed funding to accelerate its beta relaunch

Daniel Levi Posted On January 16, 2023

In September 2019, we covered MoviePass when the subscription-based movie ticketing platform shut down and went bankrupt in 2020 after burning through nearly $68.7 million of investors’ funds. The startup blamed the shutdown on the failure to “recapitalize the company.” Fast forward […]

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Google Ads-delivered malware drains crypto influencer “NFT God” entire crypto wallet

Daniel Levi Posted On January 16, 2023

An NFT influencer known on Twitter as “NFT God” claims to have lost “a life-changing amount” of his net worth in nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and crypto after accidentally downloading malicious software found in a Google Ad search result. In a […]

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Bitcoin is up 26% so far this year; but is this a fake rally before the mother of all crashes?

Daniel Levi Posted On January 16, 2023

After a lackluster 2022 and many months of bad news, crypto investors have been patiently waiting for months for some good news, and this past weekend, they finally got some. Bitcoin jumped about 20 percent in just a few days, with […]

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Top tech startup news for today Friday, January 13, 2023: Crypto.com, Meta, SmartNews, Tencent, and WeChat

Daniel Levi Posted On January 13, 2023

Good evening and happy Friday! It’s a super light news day so we’re not going to cover much ground today. With that, below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Friday, January 13, 2023. Tencent bets big on […]

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News aggregator SmartNews lays off 40% of its staff in the US and China, more layoffs planned in Japan

Daniel Levi Posted On January 13, 2023

We’re only two weeks into 2023 and more than 23,000 tech workers have already been laid off. The latest is SmartNews, a Tokyo, Japan-headquartered news aggregation website and app. SmartNews announced today it is laying 40% or around 120 of its U.S. […]

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Fastest-Growing Slot Software Providers

Daniel Levi Posted On January 13, 2023

Online gaming has exploded over the last decade. While most players used to be wary of playing their favorite casino games online, the popularity of trusted fantasy apps like FanDuel and DraftKings has given millions of sports fans and players ways […]

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SEC charges Crypto firms Genesis and Gemini with selling unregistered securities

Daniel Levi Posted On January 12, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally dropped the hammer on crypto lender Gemini and Gemini, a crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins. SEC on Thursday charged Genesis and Gemini with allegedly selling unregistered securities in connection with a high-yield product […]

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Bill Gates-backed Swiss startup Climeworks says it’s removed CO2 from air and put it in the ground where it will turn into a rock

Daniel Levi Posted On January 12, 2023

The world has less than 10 years to avert climate change catastrophe, a study published in the online journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment warned. The study also found that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased by almost 5% last year, […]

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DoraHacks, Cryptosat perform the first experiment of cryptographic trusted-setup for zero-knowledge in Space

Daniel Levi Posted On January 12, 2023

Cryptosat, who just launched their 2nd LEO satellite on Jan 3rd, 2023, now successfully performed the first experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) with DoraHacks. This could be a game-changer in terms of securing the voting mechanism of DoraHacks, and […]

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