Category: news

November 19, 2024news

Robinhood agrees to buy TradePMR, a custodial and portfolio management platform for registered investment advisors, in a $300M deal expected to close in H1 2025

Robinhood agrees to buy TradePMR, a custodial and portfolio management platform for registered investment advisors, in a $300M deal expected to close […]

November 19, 2024news

Microsoft and Atom Computing plan to ship quantum computers with 1,000+ physical qubits to enterprises in 2025 and detail a 24 entangled logical qubits record

Quantum computing is getting there. After years of slow but steady development to create a useful quantum computer that can outperform classical […]

November 18, 2024news

News influencers survey: 20% of US adults say they get news from social media influencers, 85% of influencers are on X and 27% identify as right

This study explores the makeup of the social media news influencer universe, including who they are, what content they create and who […]

November 18, 2024news

MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds $29B+ in bitcoin

MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds […]

November 18, 2024news

PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of shares back to investors, the lowest amount since 2011, and invested $60B more than they collected, a record

PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of shares back to investors, the lowest amount since 2011, and invested $60B more […]

November 18, 2024news

Tim Berners

Tim Berners-Lee’s Inrupt trials its digital wallet in Belgium to let 7M citizens receive social services and share data with businesses, as […]

November 18, 2024news

How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to buy it in April 2023

How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to […]

November 15, 2024news

A senior SDNY prosecutor says the office will devote fewer resources to policing crypto crimes after securing several major convictions, including that of SBF

A senior SDNY prosecutor says the office will devote fewer resources to policing crypto crimes after securing several major convictions, including that […]

November 15, 2024news

Bluesky says it has “no intention” of taking user content to train AI tools, ahead of X implementing new terms of service that let it train AI on user content

It does use AI to power other parts of the platform, though. Read More »

November 15, 2024news

Apple removes RFE/RL’s Svoboda app from the Russian App Store at the demand of Roskomnadzor; Apple also removed recent podcasts by Ekho Moskvy and others

U.S. technology giant Apple has notified RFE/RL that it has removed another of its apps following a request from Russia’s media regulator, […]