Jack Dorsey’s crypto division is focused on giving developers greater flexibility with Bitcoin and Lightning Network technology to streamline bitcoin wallets. | Credit: AP/Francois Mori Square Crypto is building a Lightning Dev Kit that will give developers more flexibility for Lightning tech and bitcoin wallets. Square’s crypto arm expects that bitcoin payments will overtake cash....Read More
The Alibaba Group has announced its acquisition of online e-commerce platform, Kaola, from NetEase. Alibaba will also be investing $700 million in NetEase’s Cloud Music streaming platform, as part of a separate deal. Chinese multinational e-commerce and tech conglomerate, Alibaba Group, has just acquired Kaola, from NetEase Inc. The acquisition worth $2 billion will create...Read More
Elon Musk tweeted about Porsche’s Taycan Turbo-electric sports car appearing to poke fun at the ‘turbo’ in the name. Twitter users pointed out that the Tesla CEO has his own history of using loose definitions. Yesterday we wrote of how four years after Porsche showed us the original Mission E concept, the 2020 Taycan is...Read More
Customers who use the Stripe payment platform will now enjoy business loans up to $20,000 through the company’s recently unveiled Stripe Capital. The company is looking to provide businesses with better access to funds. Stripe, one of the world’s biggest payment services firms, has now announced its decision to get involved with business finance through...Read More
While there is no concrete plan to make any specific crypto moves, an Apple Pay executive has just confirmed that the company is paying attention to the sector. Hopefully and at some point, Apple Pay will support cryptocurrency. Apple has not been very forward regarding cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in general. A recent report from...Read More
A database with personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users has been found online by a security researcher. Facebook has since taken it down, declaring that no accounts were breached. Facebook is in the middle of another serious problem of a security breach involving a feature that the company had disabled more than...Read More
Four years after Porsche showed us the original Mission E concept, the 2020 Taycan is finally here showing that there is a real alternative to the Tesla Model S that has ruled the large luxury electric sedan roost. It seems Tesla (TSLA) is getting some real competition and it just might help it. If this...Read More
Apple plans to borrow in the bond market for the first time since November 2017. The proceeds will go towards share buybacks, dividends, and other general corporate purposes. One of the most cash-rich companies in the world, Apple Inc. (AAPL) is getting ready to offer bonds for the first time in almost two years. As...Read More
Initially postponed for various reasons, Samsung has now announced that its Galaxy Fold is ready for launch, after quite a few modifications were made. The phone will first be released in South Korea. Back in July, Samsung announced an unspecific September date for its new Galaxy Fold smartphone. The phone which was originally expected to...Read More
In recent news, a Twitter account named AppleBeta2019 has shared a 10 page document from Apple, which reveals a substantial amount of information about the upcoming Apple product line-up. Apple, one of the world’s leading tech companies, has just experienced yet another inside document leak which reveals iPhone 11 branding details, OS release dates, new...Read More
Photo: Accion / Instagram Accion has just announced new funding for inclusive fintech startups to the tune of $23 million. The funding was raised through Accion Venture Labs, the company’s seed-stage investment division. Specifically, Accion Venture Labs will be increasing its entire capital base by $33 million, with an extra $10 million coming as a...Read More
As the trade war between the U.S. and China continues to rage, US stocks including the Dow Jones, Nasdaq and the S&P 500 are currently taking a hit affecting retail stocks with no current hope for recuperation. The fires heating up the trade war between U.S. and China which has been going on for quite...Read More
California’s state Senate is set to vote on Assembly Bill 5 that, if passed, could be financially ruinous for Uber and Lyft, which stock is already experiencing hard times. Stocks of Uber and Lyft fell to their new lows yesterday what seems to be their lowest point since their IPO. The thing is, each day...Read More
HSBC processed the first-ever Yuan-denominated blockchain-based letter-of-credit transaction for MTC Electronics over the Voltron blockchain platform. In a major milestone, banking giant HSBC completed the first-ever Yuan-denominated blockchain-based letter-of-credit transaction on Tuesday, September 3. Since long, HSBC has been working on introducing the use of blockchain technology to the traditional paper-based method of financing trade....Read More
If implemented, Facebook posts will no longer show the number of likes or reactions to a post. The user who created the post can see a list of people and their reactions, but a number won’t be displayed. Will influencers suffer another slap in the face? Just after Instagram said it plans to hide Like...Read More
Investor’s in Uber’s stock are currently anything but happy as its value has dropped from the initial $45 it started with to $32. What are the chances UBER will rise? Valued at $82.4 billion, Uber completed its IPO in May and started at $45 per share. The company which seemed to have been struggling with...Read More
Facebook has finally gotten a partner app for Instagram dubbed ‘Threads’. This may be the app that will be the Snapchat killer. The question though is which direction is Facebook going in? Facebook (FB) is said to be developing a new application which is meant to be attached to Instagram. The new application called ‘Threads’...Read More
The We Company is looking to raise billions of dollars in its upcoming IPO. However, many potential investors are worried that there’s too much going on there that isn’t explanatory. Should you invest in WeWork? Founded in 2010, WeWork is a company in the business of creating fully set up workspaces for several interested entities...Read More
As iPhone unit sales have slowed, Apple was partially relying on higher prices to make up the difference. Consumers are now less tolerant of the premium prices phone makers want for their newest devices. Every day we are witnessing more and more doubts surrounding upcoming Apple’s new iPhone models. On September 10, Apple is should...Read More
Recently, Huawei announced that their new flagship phone line – Mate 30, will be launched on September 19, in Munich, Germany. The tagline for this launch event is “Rethink Possibilities”. Huawei just recently announced its new flagship phone line – Mate 30. The company tweeted a short loop animation along with a description on their...Read More
A new tool for crypto hedge funds is in the works. This will provide accurate investment choices for these institutional members of the crypto-verse. Billionaire Alan Howard is the mastermind of this innovation. Superstar Hedge fund manager Alan Howard has decided to create a unique enterprise which will forever change the crypto space. Created by...Read More
China has confirmed President Donald Trump was lying when he said his people at the White House received phone calls from China offering to reopen stalled negotiations to end his trade war. President Donald Trump is becoming more and more disturbed with the possibility of U.S. stock slump and is spinning to find victories that...Read More
Photo: Wikimedia Commons PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. finally went live with the blockchain payments platform RippleNet. By doing this, it became a first-ever American bank that decided to process cross-border payments just a year after they decided to adopt Ripple’s technology. As one of the ten largest banks in the U.S., the inaugurating of...Read More
Apple has now made its own Apple Card available for all consumers within the United States. Apple promises to keep user data very private and not compromise on security, especially with Apple Card partners MasterCard and Goldman Sachs. Apple has finally released its own credit card called the Apple Card. In partnership with American multinational...Read More
Nutanix, which is a leading enterprise cloud computing company, announced their new Q4 and fiscal 2019 financial results. Soon after the company’s stock price shot up to even 15%. Nutanix, a company which operates in the cloud computing industry, announced their Q4 Fiscal 2019 Financial results. It beat all the expectations that the financial experts...Read More
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference kicked off in Shanghai Thursday with a much-anticipated keynote summit between Alibaba founder Jack Ma, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk debating the future of AI. At the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, visitors could attend an immerse debate between Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Alibaba founder...Read More
Gartner released their quarterly report on global smartphones which says that among the top five phone vendors, Huawei sales increased by 16.5% while Samsung added 3.8%, winning an overall 20,4% of market share. While the global smartphone sales have decreased by 1,7%, Huawei and Samsung are among the top phone manufacturers in the world which...Read More
Through a new Series C funding round, American life insurance startup Ethos has successfully pulled in an additional $60 million investment, driving the company’s valuation all the to the neighborhood of $500 million. The fresh funding of American life insurance startup Ethos was led by Alphabet’s venture division GV with backing from multinational investment bank...Read More
Photo: Peloton / Twitter Indoor fitness startup Peloton that specialized in making inter-connected treadmills and stationary bikes plans to file for an IPO after generating $900 million in revenue in the last fiscal year ending June 30. In its recently released documents and the submission of the S-1 statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange...Read More
In recent news, Raisin, a fintech startup which offers a marketplace for savings and investment products, has acquired Fairr, which is a German startup aiming to disrupt the pensions industry. Raisin, a fintech startup which mainly offers a pan-European marketplace for savings and investments has just acquired a rival company Fairr to foray into the...Read More
