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FTX acquires 30% stake in global alternative investment firm SkyBridge Capital

Daniel Levi Posted On September 9, 2022

FTX Ventures, a multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2022 by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, today announced it will acquire a 30% stake in New York-based global alternative investment firm SkyBridge Capital. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. […]

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Amazon acquires warehouse machinery and robotics maker Cloostermans to build next-generation supply chain mechatronics

Daniel Levi Posted On September 9, 2022

Amazon has acquired Cloostermans, a 138-year Belgian private company and maker of warehouse machinery and robotics, the retail giant announced Friday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The announcement comes less than a month after Amazon acquired the maker […]

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Singapore-based Whampoa Group to invest $100 million in web3 and digital assets startups via VC fund

Daniel Levi Posted On September 9, 2022

Venture funding to technology startups has slowed in recent months. The slowdown is even more severe among crypto-related startups. But has not stopped some crypto and blockchain startups from raising new funding. Some, especially web3 startups, continue to attract investors’ attention. […]

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Twitter offered whistleblower $7 million in a June settlement in exchange for signing NDA that forbids him from speaking publicly about his time at the company, WSJ

Daniel Levi Posted On September 8, 2022

More details are now coming out about the whistleblower’s serious allegations against Twitter over the company’s wrongdoings, security failure, and lies. In an explosive complaint filed last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), whistleblower and former Twitter security chief […]

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Uber taps self-driving startup Nuro for autonomous food and grocery deliveries

Daniel Levi Posted On September 8, 2022

Nuro, a Softbank-backed self-driving tech startup and the developer of street-legal autonomous electric delivery vehicles, has struck a long-term deal with Uber to test food delivery via unmanned vehicles in some U.S. locations. As part of the 10-year partnership, Nuro will use its […]

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Coinbase funds a lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury over Tornado Cash sanctions due to the $7 billion crypto laundering scheme

Daniel Levi Posted On September 8, 2022

Last month, we reported the story about Tornado Cash after Dutch authorities announced they had arrested a 29-year-old man believed to be a developer for the cryptocurrency mixer. The announcement came just a few days after the US Treasury put the […]

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Grant Thornton sells its Public Sector Advisory Practice to Guidehouse

Daniel Levi Posted On September 8, 2022

Grant Thornton LLP has sold its public sector advisory practice to Guidehouse, a consultancy firm owned by private equity fund Veritas as part of its effort to boost its capital and streamline its offerings, the firms said in a joint statement. The […]

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London-based conversational AI startup PolyAI lands $40M to automate customer service with human-like voice assistants

Daniel Levi Posted On September 8, 2022

PolyAI, a London-based AI startup that develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round to deploy conversational AI agents and disrupt the traditional customer service models. The round, which was led […]

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NFT God Game Apeiron launches marketplace on September 7, announces Battle Demo Pass Airdrop

Daniel Levi Posted On September 7, 2022

Apeiron, the world’s first NFT god game on the blockchain, burst into the NFT scene in April with its tri-token innovation to shake up the NFT gaming landscape. While many NFT games rely on just two tokens, Apeiron brings three currencies to […]

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Desktop Metal to unveil Figur G15, a 3D-printed sheet metal technology for cars, and planes; and disrupt the $300 billion market

Daniel Levi Posted On September 7, 2022

Sheet metal is any metal that can be formed into flat pieces of varying thicknesses. Unlike thick metals (also known as plates), sheet metals are used in cars, automobile and truck bodies, major appliances, airplane fuselages and wings, tinplate for tin […]

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Multiplayer Browser – Stack Browser announces selling lifetime licenses as NFTs

Daniel Levi Posted On September 7, 2022

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Multiplayer browser for Collaboration – Stack Browser, is planning to sell lifetime licenses of its subscription as Non-fungible tokens. With this announcement, Stack Browser is becoming one of the first SaaS tools that sells access to […]

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Pfizer CEO explains the decision to go with mRNA: “mRNA was a technology that never delivered a single product until that day… It was most counterintuitive to go the mRNA route,” Albert Bourla says

Daniel Levi Posted On September 6, 2022

It’s been over two years since the pandemic started and billions of mRNA vaccines have been administered to people around the world. At the time, the mRNA vaccine was considered a game-changer in medicine with the potential to cure covid. […]

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Sushi, the provider of Sushi Swap, to deploy its full product suite on Boba Network with joint liquidity mining support

Daniel Levi Posted On September 6, 2022

Sushi is one of the fast-growing decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms and a provider of Sushi Swap, a DeFi tool that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies without the need for a middleman or central administrator. Today, Sushi announced it is deploying its comprehensive […]

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China’s NetEase acquires French game developer startup Quantic Dream to expand its footprint in Europe

Daniel Levi Posted On September 6, 2022

About a year ago, we wrote about NetEase after the Chinese tech giant spun off its music streaming business Cloud Village in a $500 million initial public offering (IPO) on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Almost a year later, NetEase is now […]

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The Euro is now worth less than the U.S. dollar: Euro falls below 99 cents after Russia stops gas supplies to Europe

Daniel Levi Posted On September 5, 2022

In July, we wrote about the regulatory challenges faced by some European tech startups. The situation was so dire that one in three European startups is now considering launching their business elsewhere due to the scale of the compliance burden. But the regulatory […]

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How the search for authenticity pushes BeReal to become the #1 most downloaded social app

Daniel Levi Posted On September 4, 2022

More than half (59%) of the world now uses social media. Over 4.50 billion people around the world currently use social media to stay connected with friends and family, with another 227 million new users coming online within the last […]

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Rethinking Data Privacy With ParallelChain’s Unique Blockchain Architecture

Daniel Levi Posted On September 4, 2022

One of the biggest challenges that many people feel blockchain has not yet solved is the problem of data privacy. With blockchain, everything that’s recorded on it is exposed to the whole wide world, meaning that there can be no […]

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Changpeng Zhao says Binance is not a Chinese company: “Binance’s executive team is dominated by Europeans and Americans”

Daniel Levi Posted On September 2, 2022

Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao is pushing back over claims and allegations from critics and opposition from people in the West that the world’s largest crypto exchange is a “Chinese company.” In a long blog post published yesterday on the company’s […]

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August blockchain industry report: DeFi activity increased by 3.7% while TVL decreased by 10.5% due to Tornado Cash

Daniel Levi Posted On September 2, 2022

In July, we covered DappRadar’s blockchain industry report where we discussed the winners and losers of the crypto bear market. Now, DappRadar’s out with their August blockchain industry report, and things are as hectic as ever. In recent months, it has seemed like […]

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PropTech startup Landa lands $33M to let individuals invest in $43 trillion real estate market for as little as $5

Daniel Levi Posted On September 1, 2022

At $43 trillion, the real estate market is the largest asset class in the United States, and it’s expected to grow over the next two decades. Despite the market size, the space is dominated by institutional investors and other big players. […]

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