Fidelity Investment’s Head Of Institutional Crypto Exits Role
Chris Tyrer joined Fidelity Digital Assets as its first U.K. employee four years ago.
Month: January 2023
Samsung’s artsy 65-inch Frame TV is $400 off at Best Buy
The newest model of The Frame TV is on sale at Best Buy and Samsung. | Image: Samsung Whether you’re gearing up for the Super Bowl or are just looking for a great QLED TV that doesn’t look like your average TV (we’ll explain), this deal on Samsung’s 65-inch model of 2022 Frame TV is … Read more
Despite mounting opposition, the Bay Area’s robotaxis keep racking up the miles
Image: Getty Images City officials are sick of them. Residents are annoyed by them. And any inkling of profit remains a distant dream. But despite mounting challenges, San Francisco’s robotaxis are rolling along. This week, both Waymo and Cruise submitted their latest quarterly trip data to the California Public Utilities Commission, and taken together, they … Read more
Big changes coming for GDPR enforcement on Big Tech in Europe?
Big Tech take note: In what looks like a meaningful — and long overdue — reforming step, the European Commission has committed to dial up its monitoring of how data protection authorities at the EU Member State level enforce the bloc’s flagship data protection rules — committing to regular checks on “large scale” General Data … Read more
Ethereum staking withdrawal testnet Zhejiang to go online Feb. 1
This is the first Ethereum public test since the Merge upgrade in September 2022. Developers said further testnets would be triggered in the coming week.
Spotify’s third-party billing option has now reached over 140 global markets
In its fourth-quarter earnings, Spotify announced today its User Choice Billing program has now expanded to more than 140 markets worldwide, allowing the streaming music service to reduce the commissions it pays to Google over Play Store purchases associated with its Android app. The User Choice Billing pilot program gives Android users the option to … Read more
Mango Markets Exploiter Thought a DAO Protected Him. Then US Courts Showed Up
Mango Labs’ $47 million civil suit against crypto trader Avraham Eisenberg is a case study in how the ideals of crypto governance and DAOs take a backseat to real-world contracts law.
US lawmakers renew request for answers from Silvergate on FTX: Report
Silvergate reportedly cited restrictions on disclosing “confidential supervisory information” related to the collapse of FTX in response to a similar December 2022 letter.
Check Twitter in paradise with Iridium’s new ‘executive’ satellite hotspot
Everyone’s talking about unplugging these days – climbing a mountain, trekking through the forest, finding your way to a truly secluded beach. Central to that concept is turning off notifications, uninstalling work apps or even — if you’re feeling especially brave — leaving the phone at home for a week or two. But is paradise … Read more
Sentra raises $30M to provide a security layer for data in the cloud
The move to the cloud, accelerated by the pandemic, continues unabated. By 2025, Gartner estimates that more than 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms, up from 30% in 2021. The motivation is convenience partly — cloud platforms can be accessed from anywhere, ideal for the remote or hybrid workforce. But … Read more
The Team Slide is the most important slide in a startup pitch deck
When a startup graduates and becomes a “real” company, with hundreds of employees and the first inklings of large amounts of revenue, you could argue that a Team Slide is less important. Yes, the top leadership team still has to be good, but if the company is growing rapidly, getting new customers and delivering a … Read more
DeFi Liquidity Protocol Squid Raises $3.5M Round Led by North Island Ventures
The Axelar-based protocol connects users with cross-chain assets for borrowing and lending.
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What’s Holding DAOs Back?
The founder of CityDAO weighs solutions to decentralized autonomous organizations’ coordination and regulatory problems.
Stripperweb, a twenty-year-old forum for sex workers, is shutting down. No one knows why.
There are some people on the internet who don’t want to be found. That seems to be the case for the elusive, mysterious owner of Stripperweb, a twenty-year-old forum for exotic dancers and sex workers. With just one week of advance notice, the forum’s unknown owner announced that the website will shut down on February … Read more
TrueBiz aims to help financial services providers onboard business customers faster, avoid fraud
Due diligence was a big topic in 2022 for a variety of reasons. But due diligence doesn’t just apply to investors pouring money into startups, or companies acquiring other companies. Businesses, especially those operating in financial services, also have to conduct an appropriate amount of due diligence, for example, to avoid fraud. As recently as … Read more
TBD Health is rolling out at-home sexual healthcare to all US states
Reproductive rights is a hot-button topic for much of the political spectrum in the U.S. Against that backdrop. TBD Health is not-so-quietly making patient-focused and inclusive sexual healthcare available and accessible to everyone in the U.S., as it raises a $4.4 million round to scale up further. “At a time when women’s rights are being … Read more
Talk To Me is a potent dose of unrelenting teen horror
Talk To Me. | Image: Sundance Institute Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a group of high school kids gets their hands on a cursed occult object, and after some fun and games, they end up being terrorized by a presence from the other side. It’s not the most original premise. But in … Read more
