Binance will halt its naira (NGN) services in response to heightened regulatory scrutiny in Nigeria, it said in a blog post today. The cryptocurrency exchange will begin delisting any existing NGN spot trading pairs by Thursday, March 7. It advised users to withdraw, trade, or convert their NGN assets into crypto before the service discontinuation. Any […]
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AI-powered video generation is a hot market on the back of OpenAI’s releasing Sora model last month. Two Deepmind alums Yishu Miao and Ziyu Wang have publicly released their video generation tool Haiper with its own AI model underneath. Miao, who was previously working at TikTok in the Global Trust & Safety team, and Wang, […]
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Georgina Merhom developed the concept for SOLO after helping freelancers in Egypt who didn’t have bank accounts.
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Google has trailed another bundle of product tweaks ahead of Thursday’s deadline for compliance with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DMA applies to Alphabet, Google’s parent, which is one of six designated “gatekeepers” under the ex ante competition reform. The pan-EU regulation, which is intended to open up digital markets with measures to […]
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The company launched its payments orchestration product in 2022 and provides over 300 payment methods with fraud detection capabilities, one-click checkout and advanced smart routing technology.
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MacPaw, which makes Mac and iOS apps, has released a new iPhone app called CleanMyPhone, which helps users free up storage by removing duplicate photos and cleaning up other unwanted images. The app is divided into three main tabs: declutter, organize, and network. Declutter detects and scans your photos to find duplicates, screenshots, screen recordings, […]
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Cycode is a well-funded startup that offers an end-to-end application security posture management platform — that is, a tool that continuously scans code (and the libraries it relies on) for potential security vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle and then helps remediate those issues. Today, the company announced that it has acquired Bearer, a Static […]
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Axonius, one of the bigger players in the world of enterprise asset management — understanding and monitoring the digital assets and infrastructure that make up an organization’s network — has raised $200 million more in funding to expand its business on the heels of the company’s growth. The company, now nearly five years on from […]
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The much-teased and oft-leaked Nothing Phone (2a) is now officially official, just under a week after it made its limited debut at the company’s MWC after party. Nothing’s third phone is the first that goes directly after the mid-tier/budget space, with a starting price of $349. While preorders open today, there’s an important caveat in […]
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With the news yesterday that “mini organs” have been grown for the first time using human stem cells, this futuristic area of bio-medicine is clearly accelerating by leaps and bounds. However, harvesting stem cells is a controversial process, since a major method involves harvesting during pregnancy. Now a Swedish startup has raised VC investment to […]
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