2022 is finally drawing to a close. This year is probably one of the worse years we’ve seen in decades. In the last 12 months, we saw the worst inflation in 40 years, economic downturn, global uncertainties, recession, and war. […]
With just one day left in 2022, Madrid-based Wolters Kluwer is ending the year with a bang. Today, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory, the global provider of information services, legal solutions, and consulting for companies, announced it has acquired Della AI, bringing the four-year-old startup […]
The collapsed crypto exchange FTX and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried diverted $200 million of customer funds to make two venture capital investments, according to complaints filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The announcement comes just a few […]
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. […]
Crypto exchange Kraken announced today it will shut down its operations in Japan in January next year as crypto winter takes a toll on the entire crypto industry. The announcement comes just a month after the Kraken laid off 1,100 employees, […]
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 […]
A hacker by the name ‘Ryushi’ claimed to have the data of 400 million Twitter users and is offering it for sale unless Elon Musk pays a ransom. While security firms are still working to verify the authenticity of the data, Ryushi is […]
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’ve been covering failed startups for five years but this year is unlike any other year in our ten-year history. The past 12 months were unprecedented for tech companies, especially for tech startups. To put things in perspective, the tech industry lost […]
Money View, a fintech startup that simplifies access to credit for billions of people in India, has raised $75 million in a Series E funding round to grow its credit business, grow its team, and expand its product portfolio with new […]
We’re living in extraordinary times of artificial intelligence (AI). Things you saw in Sci-fi movies years ago are already becoming a reality. Two years ago, OpenAI shocked the world with the launch of its Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (popularly known as GPT-3), […]
Back in 2018, we wrote about the then-Facebook after the social media giant gave third parties, including British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, access to users’ personal data without their consent. At the time, Facebook revealed that up to 87 million of […]
Quick Take Astar Network named the Product of the Year at the JBA Annual Blockchain Award. Astar Network’s founder, Sota Watanabe, bagged the ‘Person of the Year’ award for the second time in a row. The JBA comprises some of the leading […]
The popularity of bitcoin has led to a rise in the use of fiat “on-ramp,” a service that allows for the exchange of fiat currencies like the US dollar (USD) and Euros for cryptocurrencies. For example, you could exchange USD […]
“Stop using LastPass as your password manager. Move to any other one, and please change any passwords you have on there now,” that was a dire warning from the Director of Engineering at SpotAi. LastPass, the startup that’s supposed to users’ passwords safe, […]
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has endured wild weeks in wake of the collapse of FTX. While the company was doing its best to fend off the onslaught of media reports about its digital asset holdings, Binance was still […]
Back in March, we wrote about single-sign-on cybersecurity firm Okta after the company confirmed that hundreds of its customers were hit by a data breach from the Lapsus$ hacking group. Okta, one of the leading providers of authentication services and Identity […]
While the crypto industry may be through a “historic moment” of decline and “crypto winter,” one sector that continues to experience exponential growth in mainstream adoption is decentralized finance or DeFi. Between 2020 and 2022, the DeFi space grew by a […]
While the disgraced FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried may likely be spending his life in prison, the question everyone was asking is where is Caroline Ellison? As we reported early this month, the former CEO of FTX’s sister company […]
