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Money20/20 Successfully Re-Unites Global Fintech Community

Money20/20 today reports that more than 8,000 attendees, from over 2,500 companies participated at Money20/20 USA at The Venetian Resort, Las Vegas in late October. The event was a showcase for the fastest growing and most innovative fintech companies. This follows the hugely successful Money 20/20 Europe, held in Amsterdam in September, which hosted more […]

Sports bettors dream: 86 able to bet on game after it ended

It was every sports bettor’s dream: Being able to bet on a game after it had already ended. But the 86 New Jersey gamblers who thought they were beating the system had their bets on a British soccer game voided, and the two betting companies involved got fined. The mishap was revealed in documents made […]

Biden tries to reassure on COVID as he sells spending plan

President Joe Biden on Tuesday went to Minnesota to pitch his completed infrastructure deal and a giant social spending bill that he’s still trying to get passed, but also found himself reassuring the nation he would fight the evolving COVID-19 threat without resorting to “shutdowns and lockdowns.” Biden met with students at Dakota County Technical […]

How telcos can digitalise their services for the demands of tomorrow

Retail giants Amazon, Aldi and Tesco are trialing checkout-free stores in the UK, where customers can conveniently grab their shopping and leave the store without visiting a cashier. It’s clear that consumers today expect intuitive digital services as standard — and supermarkets aren’t the only ones who should listen. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalisation […]

UK to block Facebook parent Meta’s $315M acquisition of Giphy

It is expected that the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will reverse Facebook parent company Meta’s purchase of Giphy in the coming days, according to the Financial Times.  If that happens, it will mark the first time that the country’s competition regulator has unraveled a major tech acquisition. Meta (Facebook previously) announced in May […]

Cyber Monday caps holiday shopping weekend as virus lingers

Americans are spending freely and going back to store shopping, knocking out some of the momentum in online sales from last year when Americans were making many of their purchases exclusively via the internet. Shopper traffic roared back on Black Friday, but it was still below pre-pandemic levels, in part because retailers spread out big […]

India’s Reliance Industries seek controlling stake in UK’s BT Group

Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) is assessing the possibility of bidding on British telecom titan, BT Group Plc., reported by the Economic Times. According to the report published by the news hub on Monday, Reliance is currently planning to place an unsought offer to obtain shares into the British telco, or as an alternative, to […]

Nissan investing in electric vehicles, battery development

Nissan said Monday it is investing 2 trillion yen ($17.6 billion) over the next five years and developing a cheaper, more powerful battery to boost its electric vehicle lineup. The Japanese automaker’s chief executive, Makoto Uchida, said 15 new electric vehicles will be available by fiscal 2030. Nissan Motor Co. is aiming for a 50% […]

Washington Expands Blacklist of Chinese Tech Firms

As U.S. pressure intensifies on Chinese tech firms, the Commerce Department blacklisted Wednesday a new list of Chinese firms under the pretense of direct affiliation with the Communist Party Apparatus. Officials have taken these measures as a plan to halt rising American technologies from being implemented for quantum computing purposes, given it would aid the […]