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How this Web3 startup plans to simplify fine art investing with NFTs
Nickie Louise Posted On October 24, 2022


As blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) continue to grow in popularity, we are witnessing a dramatic transformation in the art world. This is particularly evident when it comes to digital art, as artists now have a whole new way […]


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Will Crypto Payments Ever Compete with Platforms Like Venmo and Paypal?
Daniel Levi Posted On October 23, 2022


The payment landscape continues to undergo drastic changes every year. Numerous providers compete for traction, and P2P payments have become of keen interest to consumers and businesses. While Venmo and other PayPals are very popular, crypto payments may one-up these […]


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Grocery delivery startup Instacart postpones its plans to go public this year as tech IPO market cracks open
Nickie Louise Posted On October 21, 2022


The tech IPO market is facing its worst drought in nearly 20 years amid global economic uncertainty, wars, and looming recession in Europe and the United States. So far this year, only 14 tech companies have floated their shares on stock exchanges […]


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Musk plans to fire 75% of Twitter’s total workforce of 7,500 employees, report
Daniel Levi Posted On October 20, 2022


Twitter employees may be in for really bad news and the biggest shock in the coming months. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is reportedly planning to lay off nearly 75 percent of Twitter’s 7,500 workers, according to a report from the Washington Post, […]


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Flying car startup Alef debuts its Model A; raises $3 million in seed funding from early Tesla investor
Daniel Levi Posted On October 20, 2022


The concept of the flying car is nothing new. For decades, Hollywood and science fiction writers have been toying with the idea of adding wings to wheeled motor vehicles decades. As appealing as it may sound, attempts to develop economically-viable flying […]


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Kudos, a fintech startup founded by ex-Google and PayPal engineers, raises $7M to simplify online checkout and maximize rewards for consumers
Nickie Louise Posted On October 20, 2022


The global customer loyalty management market is currently valued at more than $5.57 billion and it is projected to surpass $24 billion by the end of 2028. One of the biggest players is Honey, a shopping and rewards startup PayPal acquired […]


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Ankr launches Chainscanner, an all-in-one block explorer and analytics platform for app-specific blockchains
Daniel Levi Posted On October 20, 2022


Fresh off becoming one of the first RPC providers to the Aptos Blockchain, Ankr today announced the launch of Chainscanner, an all-in-one block explorer and analytics platform for app-specific blockchains (AppChains). The newly-launched Chainscanner provides an easy way for both developers […]


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Europe’s digital bank startup N26 launches crypto trading service with new Bitpanda integration
Nickie Louise Posted On October 20, 2022


Fortunes, they say, are made during recessions. This is probably the case for Europe’s $9 billion digital bank N26. Just last week we wrote about the German challenger bank N26 after its reported losses climbed 14% to €172.4 million. But the […]


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Amazon faces a $1 bln lawsuit in the UK for abusing its market dominance and ‘favoring its own products’
Nickie Louise Posted On October 20, 2022


Late last year, retail giant Amazon was fined a record $1.3 billion by Italy’s antitrust watchdog for its abuse of market dominance, as EU antitrust regulators rein in a handful of US big tech companies abusing their monopolies. The fine […]


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SnapCommerce rebrands to Super, expands to fintech with the launch of SuperCash cashback card
Nickie Louise Posted On October 19, 2022


SnapCommerce, an e-commerce platform that personalizes the mobile shopping experience for users, has rebranded to Super as the six-year-old Silicon Valley startup expands its offering to include fintech. SnapCommerce also renamed its additional offerings in alignment with the new core brand, living […]


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SpaceX rolls out Starlink satellite internet service to private jets for $12,500-$25,000 per month
Daniel Levi Posted On October 19, 2022


In June 2021, SpaceX revealed the company was developing a product specifically for aviation. Elon Musk’s space company also said that it was in discussions with multiple airlines to offer in-flight WiFi. Then in September, Jonathan Hofeller, vice president of commercial sales, disclosed at […]


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Unizen launches Unizen Trade Aggregator, a crypto trading aggregator tool that makes digital assets accessible to everyone
Daniel Levi Posted On October 19, 2022


In June, We covered Unizen after the smart exchange ecosystem secured a $200 million funding commitment from Global Emerging Markets Global (GEM) to boost innovation in CeDeFi. Since then, the Unizen team continues to push the boundaries in its effort […]


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Malaysian payments tech startup Super Apps to go public in the US via a $1.1 billion SPAC deal
Nickie Louise Posted On October 19, 2022


Super Apps Holdings announced it will go public in the United States through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) with  Technology & Telecommunication Acquisition Corporation in a deal that values the Malaysian payments technology firm at $1.1 billion, the […]


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London-based cybersecurity startup OutThink raises $10 million to tackle human errors behind data breaches
Nickie Louise Posted On October 19, 2022


Every year, businesses and organizations around the world spend enormous amounts of money on cybersecurity and data protection, but still lose billions of dollars to data breaches. A recent IBM study conducted by the Ponemon Institute found that data breaches cost […]


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Facebook’s Meta accepts UK order to sell GIF search engine Giphy just 2 years after acquiring the startup for $315 million
Nickie Louise Posted On October 19, 2022


Facebook parent company Meta finally admits defeat after many months of antitrust battle that led Britain’s competition regulator to block the $400 Giphy deal. The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued its final verdict on Tuesday ordering Meta to sell its animated […]


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Co-CEO of South Korea’s largest chat app Kakao resigns after mass outage locked 53 million users out
Nickie Louise Posted On October 19, 2022


Namkoong Whon has stepped down from his position as a Co-CEO of South Korea’s largest mobile chat app Kakao. His resignation comes after a fire at a data center led to a mass outage over the weekend that left 53 million of its messenger users […]


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Terra founder Do Kwon says charges against him are ‘politically motivated,’ refuses to reveal his location
Nickie Louise Posted On October 18, 2022


Do Kwon, the founder of Terra and creator of the failed Terra blockchain project, has been hiding from the public eye since May after a dramatic $60 billion LUNA cryptocurrency crypto collapse. In early October, South Korean prosecutors froze $39.6 million in crypto […]


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Blockchain startup ChainSafe bags $18.75M in Series A funding to accelerate Web3 adoption
Nickie Louise Posted On October 18, 2022


The Web3 revolution is slowly taking over the internet. The past few years have seen more companies embracing the potential of a decentralized web following the debut of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Web3 is a new iteration of the Internet that […]


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Elon Musk tweets: “In retrospect, it was inevitable”
Nickie Louise Posted On October 18, 2022


Just yesterday, billionaire rapper and fashion designer Kanye West agreed to buy the free-speech social media platform, Parler as part of the effort “to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.” It didn’t take long before Tesla […]


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Belgium-based tech startup Garvis lands €3.5M for its bionic AI platform that provides a rapid response to global fluctuations in purchase behavior
Daniel Levi Posted On October 18, 2022


One of the lessons companies learned from the covid pandemic is that they can no longer afford to base their demand forecasts on past data. Inventory management and demand planning are two of the areas that have become increasingly challenging […]


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