Altcoins move to new all-time highs while Bitcoin struggles below $60K
Bitcoin price might be pinned below $60,000, but that’s not stopping THORChain, Akropolis and Helium from chasing after new all-time highs.
Coinbase Ventures backing DeFi in the Polkadot ecosystem
The leading United States digital currency exchange is backing Acala, Polkadot’s all-in-one DeFi hub.
Hotmart, which offers cloud-based services for creators to build, run, and manage their online businesses, raises $130M Series C led by TCV (FinSMEs)
FinSMEs:Hotmart, which offers cloud-based services for creators to build, run, and manage their online businesses, raises $130M Series C led by TCV — Hotmart Company, an Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based provider of a cloud-based platform for creators to build, run, manage, and grow their digital businesses …
Massachusetts court supports a request from the IRS to obtain the records of all Circle customers who had $20K+ in crypto transactions between 2016 and 2020 (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)
Zack Seward / CoinDesk:Massachusetts court supports a request from the IRS to obtain the records of all Circle customers who had $20K+ in crypto transactions between 2016 and 2020 — A Massachusetts court is supporting a request from the IRS to obtain the records Circle customers, the Department of Justice said.
Several Microsoft services, including Teams, Azure, Office 365, and Bing, are experiencing outages, potentially due to underlying DNS issues (Dan Thorp-Lancaster/Windows Central)
Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central:Several Microsoft services, including Teams, Azure, Office 365, and Bing, are experiencing outages, potentially due to underlying DNS issues — If a Bing goes down and no one is around, did it even happen? — What you need to know — Several Microsoft services, including Teams …
Compass, which runs an online marketplace for buying, selling, and renting real estate, closes up ~12% in its trading debut, after raising $450M in an IPO (Alex Wilhelm/TechCrunch)
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:Compass, which runs an online marketplace for buying, selling, and renting real estate, closes up ~12% in its trading debut, after raising $450M in an IPO — While several tech companies are opting to delay their IPOs in the face of less-than-enthusiastic market demand for their shares …
Q&A with “Real Facebook Oversight Board” members Carole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat on tech criticism, the role of Facebook’s Oversight Board, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/OneZero )
Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero :Q&A with “Real Facebook Oversight Board” members Carole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat on tech criticism, the role of Facebook’s Oversight Board, and more — The two join Big Technology to discuss tech criticism, Cambridge Analytica, and how Facebook can begin to right its wrongs
Sensor Tower: US iPhone users spent an average of $138 on apps in 2020, up 38% YoY, the greatest annual growth since 2016, with spending on games growing 43% (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:Sensor Tower: US iPhone users spent an average of $138 on apps in 2020, up 38% YoY, the greatest annual growth since 2016, with spending on games growing 43% — U.S. consumers spent an average of $138 on iPhone apps last year, an increase of 38% year over year, largely driven by…
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Sources: Myanmar’s military has ordered ISPs to shut down mobile internet services until further notice (Reuters)
Reuters:Sources: Myanmar’s military has ordered ISPs to shut down mobile internet services until further notice — (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military rulers have ordered internet service providers to shut down wireless broadband services until further notice, several telecoms sources said on Thursday.
Dish complains to FCC that T-Mobile, its partner for wireless services, plans to shut down the CDMA network used by millions of Dish’s Boost Mobile users (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios:Dish complains to FCC that T-Mobile, its partner for wireless services, plans to shut down the CDMA network used by millions of Dish’s Boost Mobile users — Dish Network sent a letter to the FCC on Thursday, complaining that T-Mobile — its partner for wireless services …