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Fabric raises $140M led by SoftBank for its headless eCommerce platform; now valued at $1.5 billion
Daniel Levi Posted On February 24, 2022


Seattle, Washington-based e-commerce tech startup Fabric announced today has closed a $140 million Series C funding led by Japan’s Softbank, with participation from Forerunner Ventures, Glynn Capital, and existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Norwest Ventures, and Stripes. Fabric said it will use […]


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Bitcoin plunges below $35,000 after Russia attacks Ukraine military infrastructure and air defense facilities
Daniel Levi Posted On February 24, 2022


After surpassing $40,000 just a few days ago, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value crashes below the familiar territory of the $35,000 support mark early Thursday morning. Bitcoin gave up all its earlier gains and the price continues to […]


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More than 27,000 people claim universal basic income via new GoodDollar Android app launch
Nickie Louise Posted On February 24, 2022


It pays to do good, just ask the 300,000+ recipients of GoodDollar’s regular G$ payments. GoodDollar is founded on the principle that everyone, everywhere has the right to a basic universal income. GoodDollar does not just believe it, but it […]


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bitsCrunch raises $3.6M from Animoca Brands, Coinbase Ventures, others to secure the NFT Ecosystem
Nickie Louise Posted On February 24, 2022


As the popularity of NFT soars, so is the number of NFT fraud cases. In recent months, hackers and fraudsters are also targetting NFT projects stealing millions of dollars worth of NFTs. Just last month, OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT marketplace reported […]


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LiveOne partners with NFT platform DaVinci to launch membership token for creators, talent, and artists
Nickie Louise Posted On February 23, 2022


LiveOne said today it plans to launch its own membership token in partnership with non-fungible token (NFT) platform DaVinci, a joint venture of Polygon and Cere Network. The announcement is the latest in a series of partnerships LiveOne has forged to enable […]


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The Rise and Fall of Virgin Galactic: Virgin Hyperloop lays off nearly half of its staff after the futuristic space travel company lost $1 billion in two years and over 80% of its market value wiped out
Daniel Levi Posted On February 23, 2022


In September 2019, we wrote about Billionaire and Virgin founder Richard Branson after he announced the plans to raise $460 million for his new special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Then a month later, in October 2019, Branson’s futuristic space travel company […]


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Gaming tech startup Volley acquires Amazon Alexa Skill “Question of the Day” by Matchbox.io
Nickie Louise Posted On February 23, 2022


Volley, a San Francisco-based gaming tech startup that offers exciting Alexa games and Google Home games, announced its first major multi-million dollar acquisition of Matchbox.io’s “Question of the Day”, one of the most popular and highest-rated voice games on the Amazon Alexa […]


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Meet NOVO Duffel: A smart bag that eliminates germs and sanitizes clothes right inside your bag
Nickie Louise Posted On February 23, 2022


Doing laundry is a time-consuming hassle most people dread, but NOVO Duffel is a convenient way to refresh items on the go. This waterless, eco-friendly cleaning system uses ionization to help sanitize in style, eradicating viruses, bacteria, fungus, and odor from everyday apparel, workout clothes, […]


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The Need for Speed in the Cosmos Ecosystem
Daniel Levi Posted On February 23, 2022


Of all the various problems to affront the blockchain over the past 18 months, perhaps none has made as much of an impact as the scalability problem. Mainly relating to Ethereum, which can only process 15-45 transactions every single minute, […]


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Top JP Morgan blockchain executive departs as former banking execs flee traditional banks to join crypto and Web3 companies
Daniel Levi Posted On February 23, 2022


Over the past two years, crypto companies have witnessed an influx of the best and the brightest minds from the traditional banks coming into the sector. As crypto gains mainstream adoption, many of the now-former banking executives have “become increasingly comfortable” […]


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Cybersecurity tech startup Cyble raises $10 million Series A to monitor the dark web and fight cybercrime
Nickie Louise Posted On February 23, 2022


The internet is a vast place with information on virtually every topic known to man. However, there is another side of the internet that is unknown to average users called the Dark Web–that part of the internet that assures the […]


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GetMyBoat lands a $21 million funding from Yanmar for the world’s largest boat rental and water experience marketplace
Nickie Louise Posted On February 23, 2022


GetMyBoat, the world’s largest boat rental and water experience marketplace, announced today that Japan-based Yanmar has acquired a majority stake in the company after investing $21 million as part of its Series B funding round. What: GetMyBoat allows you to rent out […]


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Warner Music Group partners with chief blockchain gaming developer Splinterlands
Nickie Louise Posted On February 23, 2022


Just last month, we covered Splinterlands after the popular NFT-based play-to-earn card game surpassed the billion battle milestone. Thanks to its ever-increasing popularity and sustained presence atop the charts as the go-to play to earn game for six months in a […]


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Sony unveils a new virtual reality headset for PlayStation to take on Facebook’s Quest as the race to the metaverse heats up
Nickie Louise Posted On February 23, 2022


Remember back in October 2021 when Facebook changed its name to Meta to focus on Metaverse? Now, it appears Facebook’s ambition of metaverse is dead on arrival. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has burned about half a trillion dollars since the […]


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E-bike tech startup Zoomo raises $20M in funding to electrify last mile delivery for a more sustainable future
Nickie Louise Posted On February 22, 2022


In 2020, the global transportation sector produced approximately 7.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This number equates to about one-fifth of global carbon emissions and the delivery sector continues to skyrocket putting more pollutive vehicles on the road to […]


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Clearview, the controversial facial-recognition AI startup that uses social media photos to build a biometric database, seeks its first big deals with federal agencies
Daniel Levi Posted On February 22, 2022


Late last year, we wrote about Clearview after the controversial facial recognition AI startup raised $30 million in Series B funding from undisclosed institutional investors. Clearview first made headlines in January 2020 after  The New York Times ran a story titled: “The Secretive Company That Might […]


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The team behind ChainGuardians launches Cryptoverse, an immersive metaverse powered by Unreal Engine 5
Nickie Louise Posted On February 22, 2022


The metaverse is all the rage. But what most people probably don’t realize is that there is also another “verse” called the omniverse, the largest of the classical verses, which surpasses the multiverse and even the metaverse. In recent months, companies […]


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Clickatell snags $91M to disrupt the $80 billion global chat commerce and expand its footprint into the US market
Daniel Levi Posted On February 22, 2022


We now live in a digital world where billions of people around the world, including people in remote places, use chat apps to communicate with one another. Billions of people now use some form of chat several times a day, […]


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DOGAMÍ’s “Petaverse” on Tezos moves one step closer as NFT minting begins today, February 22
Nickie Louise Posted On February 22, 2022


Everyone’s talking about the metaverse, a digital world where the real and virtual worlds converge into a vision of science fiction. You can think of the metaverse as a virtual world where millions of people could gather to work, play, and […]


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Biotech startup EyeBio closes $65M to develop a new generation of eye disease therapies to protect, restore, and improve vision
Daniel Levi Posted On February 22, 2022


It’s the 21st century, and there are still millions of people suffering from some forms of eye disorders. According to the Centers for Diseases and Control Prevention (CDC), approximately 12 million people 40 years and over in the United States have vision […]


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