Coinbase To Suspend Trading in XRP
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said on Monday it would suspend trading in cryptocurrency XRP after U.S. regulators last week charged associated blockchain firm Ripple with conducting a $1.3 billion unregistered securities offering. From a report: T.....»»
ZoomInfo drops $575M on Chorus.ai as AI shakes up the sales market
ZoomInfo announced this morning it intends to acquire conversational sales intelligence tool Chorus.AI for $575 million. Shares of ZoomInfo are unchanged in pre-market trading following the news, per Yahoo Finance data. Sales intelligence, Chorus’s.....»»
Insider Trading Charges Filed Over Long Island Iced Tea"s Blockchain "Pivot"
CNN reports: As the bitcoin craze took off in 2017, a Long Island iced tea company sent its share price spiking as much as 380% merely by announcing a "pivot" to blockchain technology. Long Island Iced Tea Corp. even changed its name to Long Blockch.....»»
Visa is partnering with 50 leading crypto companies to let users spend digital assets at merchants worldwide
Visa has announced a partnership with 50 of the top crypto platforms, including Coinbase, FTX and CoinZoom, that’ll make it easier for users to convert and spend their digital currency at millions of merchants around the globe......»»
Circle is a good example of why SPACs can be useful
Circle is the sort of business that is correct for a SPAC-led debut. It could not go public in a traditional manner in its current state of maturity. In the wake of Coinbase’s direct listing earlier this year, other crypto companies m.....»»
Acrylic raises debut $55M solo GP fund to paint the future of crypto
It’s been quite the year for crypto capital, what with Coinbase’s blockbuster debut earlier this year in a direct listing and A16Z raising $2.2 billion for its third crypto-focused fund. But as the numbers in this frenetic market continue to skyr.....»»
Feds Seized Robinhood CEO"s Phone in GameStop Trading Halt Investigation
Robinhood, the stock trading app that was subject to a record fine Wednesday, announced it intends to go public Thursday. From a report: In its filing documents, the company admits that many of its customers are furious about how it handled January's.....»»
Robinhood is going public and we’re very excited
It’s a sweltering day here in New York City, and that means Wall Street is on fire, and so is Robinhood, apparently. The popular stock trading app officially filed its Form S-1 with the SEC a few hours ago to go public, where it will trade unde.....»»
Tusk Ventures’ Jordan Nof and Wheel’s Michelle Davey to talk fundraising tips on Extra Crunch Live
The Tusk Ventures portfolio is impressive, if not intimidating. It includes Lemonade, Fanduel, Coinbase, Latch, Bird and many, many more. We’re lucky to be joined by Tusk co-founder and general partner Jordan Nof for an upcoming episode of Extr.....»»
Robinhood ordered to pay $70m penalty to US regulator
It's the largest penalty the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has ever ordered. Enlarge A Wall Street regulator has ordered the retail trading platform Robinhood to pay more than $70m in penalties for causing what it described as “wi.....»»
Robinhood"s Luster Stained Again With a Record $70 Million Fine
An anonymous reader shares a report: Robinhood Markets unleashed a revolution, marshaling throngs of new traders to financial markets in an upside-down year. But the free trading app's breakneck growth hurt the same small-time investors it sought to.....»»
Fungi embrace fundamental economic theory as they engage in trading
When you think about trade and market relationships, you might think about brokers yelling at each other on the floor of a stock exchange on Wall Street. But it seems one of the basic functions of a free market is quietly practiced by fungi......»»
Stock markets becoming increasingly networked due to high-frequency traders
During the last twenty years, the trading in stock markets has undergone significant changes. Researchers from the University of Turku and the University of Palermo have investigated the role of high-frequency traders in the markets......»»
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is coming to Disrupt
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is coming to Disrupt.....»»
Gotrade gets $7M led by LocalGlobe to let investors around the world buy fractional shares of U.S. stocks
Stock in many American companies, like Amazon, Alphabet or Tesla, can host hundreds or thousands of dollars per share. Fractional trading, or buying part of a single share through a brokerage, makes them more accessible—at least to people within th.....»»
Bronze Age Scandinavia"s trading networks for copper settled
New research presents over 300 new analyses of bronze objects, raising the total number to 550 in 'the archaeological fingerprint project.' This is roughly two thirds of the entire metal inventory of the early Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia. For.....»»
Airline and bank websites go down in another major internet failure
Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, banks and trading platforms suffered brief website outages after a key piece of internet infrastructure failed, sparking the second major interruption of the past 10 days......»»
Novel study looks at nitrogen credit trading to spur growth of riparian buffers
Watershed-wide nutrient credit trading has been suggested as a mechanism for reducing pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay, but a new study by Penn State researchers suggests that the high cost of producing nitrogen credits through the establishment.....»»
Trump congratulates Nigeria for Twitter ban, says more countries should do the same
Today, former President Donald Trump issued a statement supporting the Nigerian government’s decision to suspend Twitter activities in the West African country. “Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because t.....»»
Greatek says fab suspension unlikely
Over a dozen employees at logic IC packager Greatek Electronics have been infected with COVID-19, but the company has no plans to suspend its fab operations, according to company CEO Boris Hsieh......»»
Nigeria suspends Twitter operations, says platform ‘undermines its corporate existence’
The Nigerian government via its Ministry of Information and Culture today announced its decision to suspend the activities of social media platform Twitter in the country. The statement which was made by Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Moham.....»»