Month: September 2021

CFTC fines Kraken $1.25M for illegally offering margined crypto products from June 2020 to June 2021 and not registering as a futures commission merchant (Turner Wright/Cointelegraph)

Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: CFTC fines Kraken $1.25M for illegally offering margined crypto products from June 2020 to June 2021 and not registering as a futures commission merchant  —  “Margined, leveraged or financed digital asset trading offered to retail U.S. customers must occur on properly registered …

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Amazon’s head of hardware Dave Limp underscores how Amazon’s new devices aid its push toward a future with “ambient intelligence” (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Amazon’s head of hardware Dave Limp underscores how Amazon’s new devices aid its push toward a future with “ambient intelligence”  —  For his last column in 2017, Walt Mossberg predicted that technology would fade into the background, and so-called “ambient computing” would become ubiquitous.

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Sisu Data, which offers an ML-powered “decision intelligence engine” for businesses, raises $62M Series C led by Green Bay Ventures (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Sisu Data, which offers an ML-powered “decision intelligence engine” for businesses, raises $62M Series C led by Green Bay Ventures  —  Sisu Data, which aims to help businesses make better decisions, announced today it has raised $62 million in a Series C round of funding led by Green Bay Ventures.

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PayPal has two decades of experience in online payments and manages 403 million user accounts. So, it caused ripples when it announced on 23 August it would allow UK customers to buy and sell four cryptocurrencies: bitcoin prices rose to a three-month high. But will this – and last October’s roll-out in the US –

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On Amplitude’s trading debut, the mobile analytics company opened at $50, 43% above its reference price, valuing the company at ~$5B, before closing at $54.80 (Reuters)

Reuters: On Amplitude’s trading debut, the mobile analytics company opened at $50, 43% above its reference price, valuing the company at ~$5B, before closing at $54.80  —  Shares of Amplitude Inc opened nearly 43% above their reference price in Nasdaq debut on Tuesday, notching up a valuation …

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Vaccine passport app Portpass, which has 650,000+ registered users across Canada according to the company’s CEO, had a security flaw exposing private user info (Sarah Rieger/CBC News)

Sarah Rieger / CBC News: Vaccine passport app Portpass, which has 650,000+ registered users across Canada according to the company’s CEO, had a security flaw exposing private user info  —  Vaccine passport app has more than 650,000 registered users, according to its CEO  —  Private proof-of-vaccination app Portpass …

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