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Month: September 2022
Canadian Digital Asset Brokerages Coinsquare and CoinSmart to Merge
At closing, CoinSmart is set to receive $2.2 million (CAD $3 million) in cash along with the issuance of about 5.2 million shares of Coinsquare.
Software I’m thankful for (2021)
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Declining VC investment into LatAm startups could throttle digital growth
This column is fascinated by Latin America, a region of the world rich in history, culture and, recently, a massive boom in technology company formation and financing. The period of rapidly accreting venture capital activity, however, is slowing. Fast. The declines in capital availability, as far as TechCrunch can see, will not prove lethal. However, … Read more
Real Estate Token ERN Will Allow Holders to Vote on Investments, Without Offering Ownership
The firm is targeting a minimum raise of $4.5 million.
Volkswagen and Belgian utility giant partner on vehicle-to-grid energy storage
Volkswagen is partnering with a Belgian network operator to integrate electric vehicles into the power grid, as more EVs take to the road amid rising energy costs. Volkswagen’s charging unit Elli and re.alto, a startup owned by Brussels-based Elia, signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday to collaborate on ways to integrate EVs into the … Read more
“Durable Computronics”
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Blockchain infrastructure firm Chain will sponsor New England Patriots football team
Chain will work to develop Web3 experiences for visitors to Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place by “merging the physical with the digital.”
Ethereum: US$319 millones en cripto de mineros salen al mercado luego de la fusión
Los mineros se deshicieron de más de 16.000 ETH (más de US$20 millones) durante la semana pasada, según mostraron los datos de la cadena. Aún tienen alrededor de 245.000 ETH pero ninguna relación comercial con la blockchain.
TikTok users will now be able to downvote comments
Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok is rolling out a feature that allows users to downvote comments, the company announced today. The button will appear next to likes on individual comments under videos in the form of a thumbs-down icon that users can click. The feature, first announced as a test back in April, will … Read more
Vergecast: Apple Watch Ultra review, next-gen GPUs, and more gadgets
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Every Wednesday and Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where our editors make sense of the week’s most important technology news. On Fridays, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, editor-at-large David Pierce, and managing editor Alex Cranz discuss the week in tech news with the reporters … Read more
DARPA to Research Risks of Crypto to National Security in Partnership With Inca Digital
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has contracted digital asset data and analytics provider Inca Digital to research national security risks posed by cryptocurrency.
Mercedes-Benz’s electric G-Wagen is coming in mid-2024, chairman says
A concept version of the EQG was unveiled in 2021. | Images: Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz’s electric G-Wagen will arrive in mid-2024, the company’s chairman Ola Källenius said during a roundtable with reporters this week, according to Autoblog. Källenius also said he drove a prototype version of the electric SUV at the company’s testing facility in Graz, … Read more
Be critical or be corrupted
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London police arrest teen hacking suspect but won’t confirm GTA 6, Uber links
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The City of London police report they’ve arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking and said he remains in custody, without releasing any other details. Police declined to say what incident the arrest was in connection with, but many of the details line up with … Read more
Coinsquare acquires publicly traded crypto exchange CoinSmart
CoinSmart reported $16.7 million in gross revenue in 2021 as retail trading volumes soared during the Bitcoin bull market.
TikTok is releasing its comment dislike button to all users worldwide
TikTok is rolling out its comment dislike button globally to all users, the company announced on Friday. The short-form video app started testing the dislike button in April as a way for users to identify comments they believe to be irrelevant or inappropriate. If you click the dislike button on a comment, the dislike won’t be … Read more
Roborock’s S7 Plus mop and robot vacuum hybrid is $270 off
The Roborock S7 Plus has reached a new record low. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge If you plan to catch up on cleaning this weekend, you can do so a lot faster with today’s excellent robot vacuum deal. Regularly $949.98, Amazon is selling Roborock’s S7 Plus robot vacuum for just $679.48 … Read more
All about that grain
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The $5.6B epicenter of Ford’s EV effort is now under construction
Ford broke ground Friday at its $5.6 billion BlueOval City complex in Tennessee, the epicenter for its future electric vehicles and a key milestone toward its goal to sell 2 million EVs annually by late 2026. BlueOval City is slated to begin building advanced batteries for future Ford and Lincoln EVs in 2025, including the … Read more
The Most Important Bear Market in Crypto History
This down cycle poses a question some crypto longtimers have never seriously considered before: What must be done to ensure there actually is another bull market?
Elon Musk has an actual free speech issue on his hands
Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images It’s been five months since Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter, so it’s easy to forget that, in those first heady days, this was all supposed to be about free speech. We’re long past that now. But Musk showed at least a glimmer of interest in it again … Read more
FTX Ventures, DCG Back $9.6M Funding for Decentralized Database Solution Kwil
The community-owned platform could make it easier for Web2 developers to move into Web3
Bitcoin Miner Iris Energy Signs $100M Equity Deal With B. Riley
B. Riley previously signed a similar deal with Core Scientific in July.
When VCs fund the thing you didn’t think they’d ever fund
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Coming to hang with us at Disrupt, where Equity is kicking off the entire event? Use code ‘EQUITY’ to save 15% on your tickets. Hell yeah, and see you there! Alex, Natasha and Mary Ann jumped on … Read more
First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Hanging Tough as Stocks Slide
The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Sept. 23, 2022. First Mover is our daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context.