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
After raising more than $1 billion in one of the most successful ICOs in the crypto sector, Telegram is now ready to launch its Gram tokens by October. Button Wallet has also announced it will facilitate trading of the tokens. There currently are more than a few thousand different digital assets in the market and...Read More
Recently in an AMA (ask me anything) session the Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao or CZ, addressed Binance users and followers by revealing many details about the upcoming futures trading platform. Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, recently went live on his Binance‘s Twitter profile to do an AMA session. In the session, he described some...Read More
Silvergate Bank will allow Gemini’s customers deposit and withdraw U.S. Dollars from their accounts in real-time. This will help the customers to switch in and out of the crypto markets quickly. Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, founded by Bitcoin billionaires Winklevoss twins, announced its partnership with Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN), a USD payments platform. According to the...Read More
Manchester United FC, also known as Man City, one of the top British football teams, announced a partnership with an online gaming startup Superbloke in order to tokenize its players. On Monday, Man City announced its new partnership with an online gaming startup called Superbloke. It is an online football game based in South Korea....Read More
The recently concluded IEO for the Perlin Network by Binance Launchpad has now been stated as the sale with the highest number of BNB staked. Binance has already begun trading PERL tokens with four pairs. The Binance Launchpad, a platform created by Binance and strictly for the launch of supported tokens, has officially announced the...Read More
The speculations to CZ’s Twitter teaser have proven to be true – Binance has now announced the upcoming launch of its crypto lending service. Users can earn up to 15% interest on BNB and other assets. Binance has officially announced its lending service which is expected to kick off on the 28th of August, at...Read More
Despite being the talk of multiple controversies over the last year, analysts express strong bullishness on the future rise of Facebook (FB) stock amidst strong fundamental and technical indicators. Facebook has been going through a very rough phase over the last year. Firstly, the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018 surfaced the unethical use of Facebook’s...Read More
It has come to light that the world’s 4th largest smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi, wants to enter the consumer lending business in the crowded Indian market in the coming weeks, recent news report. China-based smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has revealed that they will soon enter the consumer lending business in India in the coming weeks. Xiaomi is...Read More
Apparently, consumers in the US, Baby Boomers, in particular, are increasingly delaying their smartphone purchase for three or more years. In addition, the average iPhone now remains active for 18 months, while average Samsung phone – for 16.5. There were a lot of previous reports about average lasting of Apple‘s iPhone upgrade cycle and its...Read More
Photo: Ping Identity Recently, Ping Identity filed an S-1 form to the U.S. SEC (Security and Exchange Commission) which indicates that the company is looking to raise up to $100 million in an IPO on the Nasdaq exchange with a ticker “PING”. The initial S-1 filing doesn’t have an indicated price range, but it is...Read More
Following a visit to Switzerland to meet with the country’s financial regulators, United States lawmakers are still concerned over Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency project, Libra. A delegation of the United States House of Representatives visited Switzerland last week because they have been concerned about cryptocurrency issues, especially regarding Facebook’s yet-to-come stablecoin Libra. Representative Maxine Waters published...Read More
Harmony partnered with Everstake, a Staking Service Platform will now add support for Harmony Nodes to their customer base. Blockchain protocol with principal innovations in P2P networking and state sharding, Harmony, announced they have partnered with Everstake, a leading Staking Service Platform which helps institutional investors and regular token holders to profit off their crypto...Read More
Photo: Pexels Blockchain is now an essential field for tech professionals to explore and invest time in. Considering the overwhelming impact cryptocurrencies have had on the world, and how disruptive this technology is, we may as well be confident that it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. More importantly, blockchain is now gradually injected into a...Read More
The Pantheon project basically aims to provide a number of Ethereum-based services built by ConsenSys’ strong engineering team called PegaSys. Ethereum is all set to join the open-source Hyperledger consortium. It would be the first public blockchain network joining Hyperledger as the latter’s technical steering committee approves a proposal for adopting the ConsenSys-backed Pantheon project....Read More
Consumers have been reluctant to accept transacting with phones in stores, but instead, the bank prepares to integrate more retailers that embrace Chase Pay via merchant apps plus food ordering firm Grubhub. JPMorgan Chase &Co is warming up to close its Chase Pay app in the third reversal of the bank on digital incentives in...Read More
Apple could be coming up with not just one but four new models of the Apple Watch Series 5 this year. The four models filed this week were listed as A2156, A2157, A2092 and A2093 and would be running the smartwatch OS, the WatchOS 6. It seems that Apple (AAPL) is getting ready for an...Read More
Just recently, Amazon cloud service AWS experienced an outage which is causing a service disruption on several Asian cryptocurrency exchanges. Binance is one of the exchanges. In recent news, Amazon has experienced a cloud service outage which has caused several crypto exchanges, including Binance, to report problems. Binance is seeing international problems, the company CEO...Read More
Bitmain firm, Bitcoin (BTC) mining giant is purchasing more crypto mining chips that could result in a surprising profit of $1.2 billion. Cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain Technologies will boost its size by roughly 50% in the next six months behind a supreme hardware order as leaked by the nearest source. Bitmain Technologies Targets 50% Capacity...Read More
In recent news, Patrick Byrne, the long-time CEO of Overstock has announced in a letter to shareholders, that he is stepping down from his position. His position will be temporarily replaced by Jonathan Johnson. Recently in a letter to all the shareholders, Overstock‘s CEO Patrick Byrne announced that he is resigning from his position at...Read More
Photo: Carbon Black, Inc. / Twitter In recent news, VMware which is a publicly traded software company announced two very significant purchases. The software company bought Pivotal which is an American multinational software and services company and Carbon Black which is a publicly traded security company focusing on modern cloud-native workloads. Both companies together are...Read More
Bhavin Vaghela, Xendpay’s Head of Product Innovation. Photo: Ripple Ripple announced that they went into the partnership with the UK remittance firm Xendpay therefore widening their portfolio made from big companies that are already using Ripple’s product across their payment services – MoneyGram, Standard Chartered Bank, American Express etc. From Xendpay they disclosed what kind...Read More
The WalletLink feature provides a secure encrypted link connecting the browser to the Coinbase Wallet app and letting users access the DApps from anywhere. Crypto exchange Coinbase has been introducing several products and services to bring convenience and ease-of-use to its customers. The company has recently introduced a new system called WalletLink for the Coinbase...Read More
Ending the 10-year history of naming releases after desserts, the company is bailing on providing a codename beginning with a subsequent letter of the alphabet (in this case, Q), which is the way we’ve been referring to Android up to now. This year is Android 10, next year will be Android 11, and so on....Read More
The new iPhones, iPads, MacBook Pro, and Apple Watch are all expected by the end of 2019, the report said, whereas the revised AirPods and HomePod could come later. Successors to the two XS models will carry a “Pro” label but the biggest omission from the entire iPhone 11 range is 5G. New report from...Read More
HitBTC recently in a press release announced that they are lowering the exchange trading fees, presenting a new fee adjustment system. The fees have been lowered as much as 1,3%. HitBTC which is a leading cryptocurrency exchange just announced in a press release that they are lowering the trading fees on their platform to a...Read More
Facebook’s Libra may be facing multiple threats from regulators, but the same critics are now racing to beat the social media giant at its own game. Experts: Chinese Libra May Come First The US, China and European Union are all concerned about Facebook’s digital currency. According to fresh reports, however, it is China which is...Read More
Experts from the payments industry believe that Apple Card launch can boost the company’s Apple Pay digital wallet system which can give tough competition to giants like Venmo, PayPal, and Square Cash. Earlier this week on Tuesday, August 20, tech giant Apple launched its Apple Card in the US market. Apple’s foray into the payments...Read More
Photo: Casa / Medium A famous crypto startup firm recognized as Casa that offers primary management service, and Bitcoin node machine has launched a node monitor as well as accompanying reward program to develop Bitcoin network health. The firm revealed the latest innovation in an official website article on Aug. 21. Per the announcement, the...Read More
Photo: Flexa / Medium After introducing crypto payments to its SPEDN app earlier in May 2019, merchants payment startup Flexa plans to bring this functionality to other apps as well. This is a massive step by Flexa to boost up crypto spending in the global economy. Flexa plans to implement this project by staking its...Read More
