Hi there! Hope you're having a splendid week thus far.
Here it goes again, the Indian government is coming down hard on private crypto (save certain exceptions.) The team at Canvs is curious as to how they will go about a cumbersome process like pre-approving digital tokens, seeing how the last time these kinds of conversations didn't work out so smoothly.
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Mark Zuckerberg is the worst brand spokesperson for Meta right now
Will anyone tell the Meta CEO and Facebook founder that he should not be the face of his company?
TikTok’s Next Big Move? To Become Facebook
ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok and Douyin, has global ambitions to challenge Meta’s universe.
NoBroker becomes India’s first proptech unicorn
Bangalore-based NoBroker has raised $210 million in its Series E financing round, its founders told TechCrunch in an interview. Tiger Global and General Atlantic, two existing investors, and Moore Strategic Ventures co-led the eight-year-old startup’s Series E financing round.
Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
Voyeurs. Sabotaged accounts. Backdoor schemes. For years, the retail giant has handled your information less carefully than it handles your packages.
Elizabeth Holmes tells the jury that at least some of Theranos was real
“A success was that we had successfully achieved the objectives of the program.”
Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation.
Workers in Vietnam lived inside factories during the pandemic
As Covid-19 threatened the tech supply chain, some companies, including Apple and Samsung, went to extreme lengths to keep their products flowing.
Paytm Shares Recover, Rise 9% Post 2 Days of Decline
Shares of One97 Communications, which runs digital payments major Paytm which were on a freefall in their first two trading sessions seemed to have recovered today in its share pricing.
Is the music industry's future on the blockchain?
The idea is to take the traditional record industry model, in which the label might keep 80 percent of all future royalties, and flip it to one where the artist keeps 80 percent.
‘Too good to be true’: the rapid rise and costly fall of Bulb Energy
Bulb Energy was once the fastest-growing supplier in Britain’s energy market, and one of the UK’s most celebrated startups. But the company may be best remembered as the biggest casualty of the energy market crisis.
Honorary mentions
Rolls-Royce's all-electric airplane smashes top speed record
Perseverance Rover Captures Awesome Video of Helicopter Flying on Mars
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