BRD’s Blockset unveils its white-label cryptocurrency wallet for banks and other enterprise clients
Blockset, the blockchain infrastructure platform for enterprises by BRD, announced early access to its wallet-as-a-service today. The white-label solution gives clients, like financial institutions, the ability to launch wallets that have the same features as BRD's own mobile cryptocurrency wal
Amazon's new Echo Buds are a nice upgrade
It's hard to recall a consumer electronics category that matured quite as quickly as the fully wireless earbuds. Things went from a handful of plucky startups to virtually every hardware manufacturer over the course of a year or two. When Amazon entered the category, it did so in an already arg
Upsie's direct-to-consumer swing at the warranty space nets $18.2M
Upsie, a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 million in a Series A round led by True Ventures.
The financing brings the total raised for the St. Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception.
A large group of investors participated in the round, inc
Ford is bringing significant wireless software updates to its vehicles
The Internet of Things just got bigger. Four years after Ford Motor Company introduced an integration with Amazon's suite of smart home devices, the automaker is beefing up its in-vehicle software offerings with built-in Alexa voice assistant and a wireless software update ecosystem.
Ford’
Xbox teams up with Tencent’s Honor of Kings maker TiMi Studios
TiMi Studios, one of the world’s most lucrative game makers and part of Tencent’s gargantuan digital entertainment empire, said Thursday that it has struck a strategic partnership with Xbox.
The succinct announcement did not mention whether the tie-up is for content development or Xbox&
SpaceX’s inaugural moon-tour private astronaut is heading to the International Space Station first
SpaceX private spaceflight ambitions got a big boost in 2018 when Japanese entrepreneur and billionaire Yusaku Maezawa announced he’d be taking a trip aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon on a round-trip flight passing the moon. Maezawa is still on track to make that trip by 2023, according to current
Google hit with $123M antitrust fine in Italy over Android Auto
Google has been fined just over €100 million (~$123M) by Italy’s antitrust watchdog for abuse of a dominant market position.
The case relates to Android Auto, a modified version of Google’s mobile OS intended for in-car use, and specifically to how Google restricted access to the plat
China’s WeRide secures more funding, pushing valuation to $3.3 billion
Only four months after securing Series B fundraising of $310 million, Chinese autonomous driving company WeRide says it has achieved its Series C funding round that brings its post-money valuation to $3 billion.
This is first time the company has disclosed its value. The company did not share how m
Elon Musk, Technoking of Tesla, orders a halt to bitcoin car payments
Tesla CEO and self-dubbed Technoking is back-pedaling on the company’s stance about bitcoin and has suspended purchases of its electric vehicles with the cryptocurrency.
The change of stance, which was delivered via tweet, comes just weeks after Tesla CFO and dubbed “Master of Coin̶
Ethereum creator donates meme coins worth $1 billion to help India fight COVID-19
Vitalik Buterin donated cryptocurrencies worth $1.5 billion to several non-profit organizations, including $1 billion to a COVID-19 relief fund in India, on Wednesday in one of the largest-ever individual philanthropy efforts.
Or at least that was the worth of the cryptocurrencies — many of w
Daily Crunch: The early-stage tech talent crunch is real
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By now everyone is familiar with the tech world's talent crunch: Developers are scarce and expensive, while data scientists are maybe even scarcer and expensi
Gillmor Gang: When Doves Cry
Usually we wait a few days until a show has settled. While we stall, our producer and director Tina Chase Gillmor scours the recording for short clips that give a sense of the flavor and tenor of the conversation. This show, recorded a little more than 2 weeks ago, went deep on politics, governmen
AWS releases tool to open source that turns on-prem software into SaaS
AWS announced today that it’s releasing a tool called AWS SaaS Boost as open source distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The tool, which was first announced at the AWS re:Invent conference last year, is designed to help companies transform their on-prem software into cloud-based software
GasBuddy tops the App Store for the first time due to Colonial Pipeline attack
The GasBuddy mobile app, which typically helps consumers find the cheapest gas nearby, has now become the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store for the first time ever, due to the fuel shortages in the U.S. that followed the cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline. Americans, fearful that gas would become u