Imagine you spend more than a decade building your small startup company. Everything was going well and business was booming. Then after all your toils and perseverance, you woke up one morning and found out that one of the most […]
Last month, crypto exchange FTX bought the now defunct crypto lender BlockFi for $25 million, a 99% discount from its $4.8 billion valuation in July 2021. The acquisition took place a few weeks after BlockFi found itself in deep financial trouble following reports […]
Led by layer-2 scaling solution Polygon and layer-3 infrastructure provider Orbs, DeFi.org launched a special DeFi accelerator program in May 2022. After almost two months, the DeFi.org mentors have revealed the names of the winning projects chosen to spearhead the […]
Fan engagement has always been a massive part of sports. This is a large component of the home field advantage, and sports teams have been prioritizing it accordingly. If you’re a sports fan, you’ll want to engage with your favorite […]
Gone are the days of small business owners staying in the same physical office, thanks to mobile apps. Today, most small business owners are always on the go. They work in multiple locations, including on the road, throughout the day. […]
The world’s biggest game has rejected non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Last week, Minecraft developer Mojang dropped the ban hammer on NFTs saying that NFTs “do not align” with Minecraft values. The news of the ban quickly spread across the NFT space causing […]
Last week, Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Zipmex temporarily suspended withdrawals for thousands of its customers. The startup immediately resume withdrawals resumed on the same evening in Thailand and later on in other countries, except for transfers from one investment product. But […]
In 2013, three Swiss tech entrepreneurs decided to launch an international organization called Seedstars, a seed stage venture capital fund dedicated to global emerging and frontier markets. Fast forward about a decade later, Seedstars has invested in 90 emerging market venture […]
UK-based UK space startup OneWeb and rival French satellite company Eutelsat are in talks over a possible merger to create one joint communications entity. The combined company would create multi-orbit satellites that will potentially expand OneWeb’s constellation big enough to challenge the likes […]
A recent survey by the Locomotiva Institute found that 34 million Brazilians do not have access to banking services. Of this number, 6.3 million Brazilians do not have a bank account, while the remaining 17.7 million are underbanked. That was not all, […]
In late 2019, we wrote Northvolt after the maker of electric vehicle batteries received a €5.8 million investment from EIT InnoEnergy to support Northvolt’s target of using 50% recycled materials in all its new battery cells by 2030. The funding also went […]
Blockchain.com is the latest casualty of exposure to the now bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital. The Google Ventures-backed crypto startup announced it is laying off 25% of its workforce, citing the economic downturn and harsh market conditions. The layoff […]
The growing concerns about climate change and carbon emissions have given rise to new categories of sustainable foods. It has also caused consumers to shift to climate-friendly, plant-based meats instead of the traditional ones made from animals. With the world’s population […]
Forget about the Great Resignation. There’s a more worrisome trend brewing among global workers as a vicious cycle of low wages, job dissatisfaction, flexibility, and work-life balance is leading millions to quit their jobs in droves. In the summer of […]
Bitcoin-focused startup Trust Machines welcomes thought leader Dan Held among its ranks to enhance the development of applications for the Bitcoin ecosystem. Held is a renowned and respected name in the industry, primarily due to his ongoing educational support for […]
There’s no denying the fact that the crypto market has been on the receiving end of a lot of financial devastation recently, as is highlighted by the fact that the total capitalization of this space has dropped from $3 trillion […]
Two years ago, retail giant Amazon entered the pharmacy business with the launch of Amazon Pharmacy to enable customers to order prescriptions online. Now, the retail giant is making inroads into the $3 trillion healthcare industry. Today, Amazon said it will […]
About four years ago, we wrote about Baidu after the China search giant teamed up with U.S. automaker Ford to collaborate on a two-year joint autonomous vehicle test project to develop and test self-driving vehicles on designated roads in Beijing, and possibly […]
The billion-dollar crypto fintech startup Cake DeFi has teamed up with Razer Silver to provide gamers access to crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and DeFiChain, the company announced today. Razer Silver is a loyalty rewards program for gamers, backed […]
The HUMAN Protocol team has been busy over the past few months. The decentralized infrastructure project made a splash late last year when it launched its HUMAN App with over 200,000 users. Then in May, HUMAN Protocol awarded a grant to VeritaTrust to […]
