Paying $115B for Stripe or $77B for Coinbase might be quite rational
It's hard to overvalue a startup when the public market is willing to double its valuation the moment it starts to trade. CoinDesk reported yesterday that crypto trading startup Coinbase is being valued at $77 billion on private exchanges......»»
Paying to clear-cut the rain forests
In the last few years, as climate changes continues to become more severe, there has been a growing push for rich countries to pay poorer ones to preserve and protect rain forests and other tropical forests. However, according to a new study in Natur.....»»
Foundry quotes rise to rational levels, says Powerchip chair
Pure-play foundries have raised their quotes to fair and reasonable levels, according to Frank Huang, chairman for Taiwan-based foundry Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC)......»»
Will fading YOLO sentiment impact Robinhood, Coinbase and other trading platforms?
What would happen to Robinhood and its cohorts if the apparent cooling in consumer trading demand continues? Let's talk about it. What happens to hot fintech startups that have benefited from a rise in consumer trading activity if regular f.....»»
Twitter: Buyer defends paying $2.9m for "Mona Lisa" of tweets
Malaysian tycoon says Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet is "a piece of human history"......»»
How Should We Be Thinking About Risk, Purpose and Objectives?
Defining a clear corporate purpose and rigorously paying attention to long-term value creation can help executives make difficult choices. Continue reading........»»
Crypto wallet and exchange company Blockchain.com raises $300 million at $5.2 billion valuation
As Coinbase is about to go public in the U.S., another cryptocurrency company is having a blockbuster first quarter of 2021. Blockchain.com, the company behind a popular cryptocurrency wallet, an exchange, a block explorer and more, has raised a $300.....»»
Tesla"s in-car cameras raise privacy concerns, Consumer Reports says
The consumer organization said the usage potentially undermines the safety benefits of driver monitoring, which is to alert drivers when they are not paying attention to the road......»»
Sivo, a young “Stripe for debt” led by a veteran operator, seems to have investors clamoring
Kate Hiscox is having a moment. Her company, Sivo, founded eight months ago, has already raised $5 million from investors at a post-money valuation of $100 million, and she is in active talks with others who would like her to consider accepting Serie.....»»
Scientists study co-evolutionary relationship between rust fungi and wheat and barberry
Wheat stripe rust is one of the most important wheat diseases and is caused by the plant-pathogenic fungi Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst). Though Pst is known to be highly host-specific, it is interestingly able to infect two unrelated host.....»»
Vega raises $5M to give anyone the ability to launch a derivatives market
Vega, a startup that is building a decentralized protocol for creating and trading on derivatives markets, has raised $5 million in funding. Arrington Capital and Cumberland DRW co-led the round, which also included participation from Coinbase Ventur.....»»
How to recruit data scientists without paying top dollar
HR professionals need to collaborate with data science managers to craft job descriptions that speak to a data science audience. The increasingly pivotal role of job postings will not abate with the virus. Michael Li Con.....»»
Olo prices IPO sharply above its target, valuing company as high as $4.6B
We're checking in on the price investors paid for a block of Olo shares before it began trading and will look into the latest numbers in Coinbase's new S-1/A filing A big story in the finance world this morning is that the Nasdaq Composite.....»»
Dropbox is launching a free version of its password manager in April, but with restrictions
Dropbox in the spring of 2020 launched a password manager in beta, eventually rolling it out to paying customers over the summer. Now, the file hosting service is bringing the feature to all users, albeit with a catch......»»
Cricut CEO Responds To Controversial Update
Over the weekend, the maker community had many things to say about an update from Cricut that limited the number of jobs your machine could run if you weren’t a paying member of their online service. The community was very outspoken, expressin.....»»
Ransomware: How to make sure backups are ready for a real attack
The best way to avoid paying ransom to attackers who have infected your systems with ransomware is to have those systems adequately backed up so you can wipe them and restore them from safe backups. Here are several options for making sure those b.....»»
Daily Crunch: Stripe valued at $95B
Stripe gets a mind-boggling valuation, Facebook promotes COVID vaccines and Elon Musk has an interesting new title. This is your Daily Crunch for March 15, 2021. The big story: Stripe valued at $95B That’s right: The popular payments company ha.....»»
Bitcoin"s record-breaking surge means one man ended up paying £440m for two pizzas
Bitcoin has surged to a new all-time high - with prices breaking £44,000 for the first time......»»
Stripe’s epic new valuation and the value-capture gap between public and private markets
Let's examine the company's newly-shared growth results, compare them to what we knew previously, and see if we can suss out why Stripe could be worth $95 billion today, and presumably more when it does float. Well, it happened. Over the we.....»»
Equity Monday: Stripe’s epic new valuation, Deliveroo’s IPO, and WeWork numbers
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, dig.....»»
Nanoclusters with a copper-hydrogen core provide new structure-activity insights
Copper nanomaterials with a cubic shape so perfect that they form neatly aligned stacks when brought together have been created by researchers at KAUST. The cuboid copper nanoclusters, developed by rational design, are a new member of an exotic nanom.....»»