Joel Krueger, a Freeway adviser, called himself the “Global Chief Investment Officer” of Aon — but the British insurance giant told CoinDesk that is not true.
Corey Wilton Contributor Share on Twitter Corey Wilton is the co-founder and CEO of Mirai Labs, the gaming studio behind Pegaxy. The first wave of the play-to-earn (P2E) gaming boom seems to be coming to an end. There are still plenty of blockchain studios staging successful multimillion-dollar raises around the globe, but competition for funds … Read more
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Elon Musk published a note addressed to Twitter advertisers on his account this morning, the day before his court-ordered deadline to close his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform. In the short address, Musk — who is currently in San Francisco and spending the week at Twitter HQ — explains to Twitter advertisers … Read more
The self-proclaimed “pro” NFT marketplace did 1,160 ETH ($2.5 million) in trading on Wednesday, according to Dune Analytics, placing it just behind OpenSea.
Persona, a four year old identity startup, has done pretty well for itself with its original identity verification idea, an API that lets companies capture various documents like a driver’s license or passport to prove who you are online. It went so well, the company announced today that it has expanded into a full blown … Read more
The New York Post, one of the biggest New York City daily newspapers, said it was hacked on Thursday after several offensive articles and tweets were published to the newspaper’s website and Twitter account. The articles and tweets, which were racist and sexually violent in nature, were pulled a short time later. TechCrunch is not … Read more
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DEC wants to create a decentralized ridesharing community and take market share from established companies.
Meet Neoplants, a French startup that is designing genetically modified houseplants so that they can absorb air pollutants. The startup’s first plant, the Neo P1, works hand in hand with the company’s own microbiome located in the soil near the plant roots. Neoplants targets specifically a group of indoor air pollutants that can’t be efficiently … Read more
Africa’s cryptocurrency landscape welcomes a new crypto wallet backed by global firms in the ecosystem.
Laura Normand / The Verge In a tweet posted Thursday morning, Elon Musk dismissed speculation about why he’d buy Twitter and his thoughts on advertising, writing, “The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can … Read more
The European Union’s flagship reboot of long-standing ecommerce rules — aka the Digital Services Act (DSA) — has now been published in the bloc’s Official Journal. You can find the full (and final) text of DSA here. Le Digital Services Act (#DSA) est publié aujourd’hui au Journal Officiel! Ce texte majeur fera d’Internet un espace … Read more
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Las criptomonedas dependen del código abierto no sólo para su funcionamiento sino también para generar confianza y transparencia.
Shah made the remarks on Wednesday at a high-level regional meeting on drug trafficking and national security.
The issue of women startup founders not receiving equitable venture funding is a shortfall of the West: It’s here, everywhere in the U.S., and over there, all throughout Europe. It’s hard to say that some of these metrics represent investors simply pulling back when data shows the bias has historical precedence. Even in 2008, all-women … Read more
Image: Activision Physical copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II are starting to be delivered worldwide, and players have been stunned to find the discs only include 72MB of data. Instead, owners have had to download the entire game digitally, which Eurogamer reports could take up as much as 150GB of space on the … Read more
Domain Money, launched just before the start of the crypto bear market, is moving from actively-managed investments to a robo-adviser model.
Streamlined Ventures, led by Ullas Naik, secured $140 million in new capital commitments for its two newest funds. This brings the total funds managed to eight with the assets under management reaching about $325 million. Institutional investors, family offices and high net worth individuals pumped $102 million into the firm’s fifth seed fund, which targets … Read more
DOGE could undergo a 20% price correction before the end of the year despite strong fundamentals.
Is the multilateral lending institution throttling useful DLT experiments in the developing world, or is it saving crypto from itself?
Healthcare benefits are great, but navigating them often isn’t. HealthJoy wants to make the experience more seamless for employees, while helping HR departments reduce the number of underutilized benefits. The Chicago-based company announced today it has raised $60 million in Series D funding, led by Valspring Capital with participation from Endeavor Vision and CIBC Innovation … Read more
ELSA, the English-language learning app known for its speech recognition technology, is launching a new product called the Speech Analyzer. The assessment platform plugs into communication tools like Zoom and analyzes conversational speech to suggest areas for improvement, including pronunciation, pacing and vocabulary. It is meant to act like a language coach to help people … Read more
