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African web3 startup Nestcoin declares it held its assets in FTX, lays off employees

November 14, 2022

African web3 startup Nestcoin has laid off some employees as FTX’s demise impacted its business. This information was shared by the startup’s CEO, Yele Bademosi, who, in a tweet, said FTX’s fall from grace affected his one-year-old startup, which held its assets (cash and stablecoins) in the now-defunct crypto exchange to manage operational expenses. Since […]

African web3 startup Nestcoin declares it held its assets in FTX, lays off employees by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

222 wants to match perfect strangers for bespoke, real-life experiences

November 14, 2022

As anyone who’s moved to a city sight unseen can tell you — this reporter included — making platonic connections isn’t easy. Adult friendships are fickle beasts in metros of millions, where casual friends are cheap currency. Statistics back up my anecdotal evidence. According to a 2021 survey conducted by the Survey Center on American […]

222 wants to match perfect strangers for bespoke, real-life experiences by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Why is Mark Cuban Fascinated by Crypto?

November 14, 2022
Cuban drew comparisons of the up and coming crypto space to the early days of streaming. He claimed that people had to go through a tedious process just to make a 16k stream work and believed that if it didn’t, people would often become a laughing stock for not using a radio

A ‘credible alternative to Google and Amazon’: Klarna brings its price comparison tool to Europe

November 14, 2022

Klarna is expanding into the competitive world of price comparisons, with the launch of a new tool that compares prices across thousands of retailers. The company quietly rolled out the price comparison service in the U.S. a few weeks back, and is now extending this into additional markets in Europe including The U.K. and the […]

A ‘credible alternative to Google and Amazon’: Klarna brings its price comparison tool to Europe by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

India lifts download ban on VLC

November 14, 2022

India has lifted the download ban on VLC, more than nine months after it mysteriously blocked the official website of the popular media playback software in the South Asian market. VideoLAN, the popular software’s developer, filed a legal notice last month seeking an explanation from the nation’s IT and Telecom ministries for the block order. […]

India lifts download ban on VLC by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Selligion Technologies Raises INR 3 Crore Seed Funding

November 14, 2022
The fund raised will be utilized to build a scalable cloud-based software ecosystem for future deployment while distributing a variant of the computer to a sizable number of students on a monthly subscription model

Real-time data startup Quix raises a $12.9M Series A round led by MMC Ventures

November 14, 2022

The complexity of streaming data technologies – not just streaming video but any kind of streaming data – has created a headache around dealing with that high speed data processing. Accordingly, companies like Spark, Flink have spring up to address this ksqlDB. Many are either either java-based solutions or SQL-based analytics solutions. However, UK startup […]

Real-time data startup Quix raises a $12.9M Series A round led by MMC Ventures by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Binance CEO CZ Propels Crypto Self-Custody

November 14, 2022
CZ’s push for self-custody comes at a time when investors are rethinking about the security of the assets amidst the market spiralling out of control