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FTX says $415 million of crypto was hacked from its accounts
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


Last week, bankrupt crypto exchange FTX announced it recovered over $5 billion in cash and crypto assets. The lawyer representing the company disclosed the $5 billion includes cash and digital assets. What wasn’t disclosed at the time was there are still […]


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Top tech startup news for Tuesday, January 17, 2023: GTX, Microsoft, Mill, N26, Polygon, and Three Arrows
Daniel Levi Posted On January 17, 2023


Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Tuesday, January 17, 2023. Microsoft to fire 11,000 employees, roughly 5% of its total workforce Just three months after confirming it was laying off about 1,000 of its […]


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African gaming startup Carry1st raises $27M in funding to become next frontier in mobile gaming in Africa
Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023


While gaming has almost reached its saturation point here in the US and Asia, the mass adoption of mobile games is just getting started in Africa. With millions of Africans now having access to smartphones, the game penetration level in Africa […]


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Nest co-founder launches Mill, a sustainable kitchen bin that turns food scraps into chicken feed to combat food waste
Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023


At a time when most homeowners didn’t think of automating their home thermostats to save on high energy costs, Matt Rogers left his high-paying job at Apple to start smart home thermostat startup Nest Labs in 2010 to enable users to control their […]


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Polygon partners with Xternity to migrate multiplayer Web3 game Synergy from Solana to Polygon
Daniel Levi Posted On January 17, 2023


Fresh off its partnership with Ankr to enhance the web3 building experience for supernet developers, Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Polygon announced today it has joined forces with Web3 gaming development platform Xternity to migrate and onboard a multiplayer Web3 game — Synergy Land […]


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Web3 funding plummets by 74 percent
Daniel Levi Posted On January 17, 2023


The decentralized web or Web3 has grown at a rapid pace in the last two years. From its glory days of static pages or Web 1.0, the Internet quickly evolved to Web 2.0 which brought platforms and user-generated content such […]


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Founders of bankrupt Three Arrows Capital launch GTX, a new platform for crypto debt claims; seeking to raise $25M seed round
Daniel Levi Posted On January 17, 2023


The founders of the bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) are making a second go at crypto after the troubled startup was ordered into liquidation in June by a court in the British Virgin Islands. According to an exclusive by […]


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Microsoft to expand access to hugely popular OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023


Unless you’ve been living under a rock over the past few months, you’ve probably heard ChatGPT, the best dialogue-based artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public by OpenAI. Since its launch on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT has impressed many experts […]


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Europe’s digital bank startup N26 to expand crypto trading
Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023


Late last year, Europe’s digital bank startup N26 made its foray into cryptocurrency last year with the launch of a new crypto trading service called N26 Crypto. Unlike its rival PayPal, the N26′s crypto service does not include support for custodial […]


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Top tech startup news for Monday, January 16, 2023: Locad, MoviePass, ShareChat, Sprinque, and Twitter
Nickie Louise Posted On January 16, 2023


Good evening and happy Martin Luther King Holiday to everyone! It’s another light news day and as such, I’m going to make this very brief. With that, below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Monday, January 16, […]


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MoviePass returns from the dead with seed funding to accelerate its beta relaunch
Daniel Levi Posted On January 16, 2023


In September 2019, we covered MoviePass when the subscription-based movie ticketing platform shut down and went bankrupt in 2020 after burning through nearly  $68.7 million of investors’ funds. The startup blamed the shutdown on the failure to “recapitalize the company.” Fast forward […]


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ShareChat, a Google-backed short video-sharing startup, lays off 20% of its workforce
Nickie Louise Posted On January 16, 2023


ShareChat is the latest Indian tech startup to lay off staff amid the global economic downturn. ShareChat, which was backed by Google and Singapore-based Temasek, announced Monday it has let go of about 20% of its 2,000-person workforce, as tech […]


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Google Ads-delivered malware drains crypto influencer “NFT God” entire crypto wallet
Daniel Levi Posted On January 16, 2023


An NFT influencer known on Twitter as “NFT God” claims to have lost “a life-changing amount” of his net worth in nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and crypto after accidentally downloading malicious software found in a Google Ad search result. In a […]


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Bitcoin is up 26% so far this year; but is this a fake rally before the mother of all crashes?
Daniel Levi Posted On January 16, 2023


After a lackluster 2022 and many months of bad news, crypto investors have been patiently waiting for months for some good news, and this past weekend, they finally got some. Bitcoin jumped about 20 percent in just a few days, with […]


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Singapore-based Locad raises $11M Series A funding to boost consumer brands in Asia Pacific with logistics engine
Nickie Louise Posted On January 16, 2023


eCommerce businesses have thrived in recent years, thanks in part to the pandemic that forced millions of people to shop from home. However, while most entrepreneurs see eCommerce as a way to get their products in front of a huge […]


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Twitter offers free ads of up to $250,000 to advertisers in an attempt to woo back brands to its platform
Nickie Louise Posted On January 16, 2023


Twitter had lost at least half of its top 100 advertisers since Elon Musk took over the company in October 2022. According to a report from Media Matters for America, these 50 advertisers have spent almost $2 billion on Twitter ads […]


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Top tech startup news for today Friday, January 13, 2023: Crypto.com, Meta, SmartNews, Tencent, and WeChat
Daniel Levi Posted On January 13, 2023


Good evening and happy Friday! It’s a super light news day so we’re not going to cover much ground today. With that, below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Friday, January 13, 2023. Tencent bets big on […]


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News aggregator SmartNews lays off 40% of its staff in the US and China, more layoffs planned in Japan
Daniel Levi Posted On January 13, 2023


We’re only two weeks into 2023 and more than 23,000 tech workers have already been laid off. The latest is SmartNews, a Tokyo, Japan-headquartered news aggregation website and app. SmartNews announced today it is laying 40% or around 120 of its U.S. […]


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Balloon surveillance startup World View to go public in a $350 million SPAC deal
Nickie Louise Posted On January 13, 2023


Interest in space tourism has grown in recent years, thanks to companies like Jeff Bezo’s Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, which now makes it possible for tourists to see the edge of space. However, space tourism is not limited to […]


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100 Fastest-growing fintech startups to reach $1 billion valuation the quickest
Nickie Louise Posted On January 13, 2023


We started off this year with our annual list of global unicorn startups, a list of emerging private companies that leverage new technologies or unknown market niches to achieve a value of over 1 billion dollars. In just a year, […]


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