Standard Chartered has invested in Partior, the blockchain-based payment network founded by JPMorgan, DBS and Singapore government-owned investment fund Temasek.
The new Amazon fashion shopping lenses allow Snapchat users to try on eyewear and then buy products via an on-screen link. | Image: Snap Snap and Amazon Fashion are partnering up to provide Snapchat users with the ability to try on branded glasses and sunglasses using augmented reality filters. Snapchat’s 363 million daily active users … Read more
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Day two of Web Summit began with a discussion around NFTs and the future of the metaverse, with major discussions lined up around Web3 throughout the day.
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As ButcherBox’s former head of logistics, Juan Meisel knows how to get perishable items from A to Z, and now he wants to do the same for Grip, a perishable shipping company he is bringing out of stealth mode with $2 million pre-seed funding. Dubbed a “smart logistics engine,” Grip’s technology sits on top of … Read more
Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz CTO Markus Schäfer is energized by his visit to Silicon Valley. The executive is at the automaker’s Sunnyvale, California, research and development center to meet with his team and local tech companies. “Very, very interesting discussions were had about potential partnerships in the future,” Schäfer tells The Verge as we sit down for … Read more
India’s crypto industry has formed a new advocacy body almost four months after the previous one was disbanded.
The firm will pay $55 million in cash, upon deal close, and $145 million in stock and senior note upon achieving certain financial targets.
The Pocket S in green, gold, and rose gold. | Image: Huawei Almost a year after Huawei announced its first clamshell foldable in the form of the P50 Pocket, it’s back with a followup. The new device is called the Huawei Pocket S, and it maintains the same foldable form-factor as the P50 with circular … Read more
Litecoin’s momentum indicators signal extremely oversold conditions, hinting at the formation of a potential market bottom.
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A lot of things might spring to mind when you hear “fashion,” but taking care of the planet generally isn’t on that list. Smartex just raised a couple of bolts’ worth of cash, sowing up a round of funding to bring smart tech to fabric manufacturing. The hope is to be able to detect textile … Read more
Low volatility and high on-chain losses for Bitcoin, but overall UTXOs in loss still have a way to go to match previous market bottoms.
Image: Patreon Patreon is officially launching its own video hosting feature, nearly a year after it was first teased. The update marks a major shift in how creators on Patreon can share video content with fans. Previously, creators had to upload videos to third-party platforms like YouTube and Vimeo and then embed video players or … Read more
Patreon creators can now upload videos directly to the platform. After hyping it up for a full year, Patreon Video will roll out to eligible creators on Patreon’s Pro and Premium plans. “We’re just so excited to see what creators do with this,” Patreon CPO Julian Gutman told TechCrunch. “I think it’s going to free … Read more
Dropit, a retail technology platform that bridges the digital divide by unifying merchants’ online and in-store inventories, has raised $25 million in a Series C round of funding. Founded in 2014, London-based Dropit counts retail brands including L’Occitane, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Estee Lauder as customers, in addition to shopping malls. At its core, Dropit … Read more
Crypto exchange Huobi Global, one of the largest cryptocurrency platforms in Asia, has confirmed plans to move to the Caribbean.
Silicon-Valley based VC firm 500 Global and German’s economic development agency Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) will train managers of leading accelerators in Africa over the next two years, to help them establish sustainable business models that commandeer greater influence in their ecosystems. The program, dubbed Bootcamp for Accelerator Managers (BAM), will use project-based teaching … Read more
