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It's been a busy year so far for Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, and we're only in March. The digital currency soared above $69,000 on Tuesday morning, rising above $69,000 on Tuesday morning as demand surged in recent weeks following the approval of a Spot Bitcoin ETF in the U.S. and the pending Bitcoin halving in late April. This is the highest value since then. Bitcoin is up more than 60% for the month and about 205% for the year, according to data from CoinMarketCap. The total cryptocurrency market capitalization of all tokens increased by 18% to $2.55…

London-based fintech company Monzo has raised $430m (£340m) in a late-stage funding round, confirming a report in the Financial Times a few weeks ago. Following this round, the company's post-money valuation reached $5bn (£4bn). Founded in 2015, Monzo offers UK current accounts, debit cards and several financial products with a digital-first approach. Today's investment is important information because large funding rounds have become rare over the past year or so unless you're working on an AI-based model. As a reminder, Atomico's latest report on the state of technology in Europe estimates that startup funding will grow to $45 billion in…

Waze introduces several new features to help users navigate tricky roundabouts, receive alerts when speed limits are about to change, and receive warnings about speed bumps and sharp turns. Adding. The Google-owned company also makes it easier for users to find parking information, see changes to their favorite routes, and receive alerts when emergency vehicles stop on their route. With the help of Waze community members, drivers now have clarity on when to enter a roundabout, which lane to choose, and where to exit so they don't miss their turn. This feature is especially useful if you are not familiar…

Using a major cloud computing provider is convenient, but it doesn't come cheap. Ubicloud, a startup founded by the team at Citus Data, which Microsoft acquired in 2019, offers a layer of core cloud computing services on top of affordable bare metal servers from providers like Hetzner, OVH Cloud, and Leaseweb. By doing so, we hope to change this situation. And AWS. This includes managed services and an open source version that allows developers to build their own clouds on top of bare metal providers. Currently, Ubicloud provides prerequisite networking capabilities for creating public and private virtual networks, as well…

Generative AI is firmly in control of public technology discussions today. His new San Francisco startup called Ema believes it's more than just a passing fantasy. The company has emerged from stealth today with its eponymous product, which it believes will open a new chapter in how AI, especially generative AI, will change the way we work. “Our goal is to create a universal AI workforce,” CEO and co-founder Surojit Chatterjee said in an interview. “Our goal is to automate the mundane tasks that employees do every day in every company, freeing them up to do more valuable, more strategic…

Binance announced in a blog post today that it will discontinue its Naira (NGN) service in response to increased regulatory oversight in Nigeria. The cryptocurrency exchange plans to begin delisting existing NGN spot trading pairs by Thursday, March 7th, and encourages users to withdraw, trade, or convert their NGN assets to cryptocurrencies before the end of service. There is. NGN balances remaining in users' Spot and Funding wallets will be converted to USDT on Friday, March 8, the company said. By Wednesday, March 6th, Binance plans to delist the NGN service in its automated investment tool and remove the currency…

AI-powered video generation has become a hot market following OpenAI's Sora model released last month. Deepmind alumni Yishu Miao and Ziyu Wang have publicly released Haiper, a video generation tool with a unique AI model. Miao, who previously worked on TikTok's Global Trust & Safety team, and Wang, who has worked as a researcher at both Deepmind and Google, started working on the company in 2021 and officially incorporated it in 2022. The two have expertise in machine learning and started working on the problem of 3D reconstruction using neural networks. After training on video data, Miao said in his…

Georgina Marhom says credit bureaus relying on old third-party data are only getting a small piece of the puzzle. “Credit bureaus are very important, but when they're used to identify that someone didn't pay their bills on time, it's a punishment. If you're only after the money, you're giving away a lot of signals. You could miss something,” Marhom told TechCrunch. Merhom uses SOLO, a first-party data collection and reporting engine that integrates user-authorized data sources such as financial transactions, online records, and digital footprints to tell a more complete story about someone's financial behavior. We want to break out…

A few years ago, payments orchestration was an unfamiliar term to many large companies Juan Pablo Ortega spoke to. Now, Yuno's co-founder and CEO doesn't have to explain much. “Perceptions have changed dramatically,” Ortega told TechCrunch. “Many large companies are now well aware of what payment orchestration is, and in fact some of them have started requests for proposals just for orchestration.” These multinational companies typically use six payment providers, acquirers, and banks to cover their needs around the world, but Yuno says they only need one global payment orchestration provider. is. Payment orchestration is a way to integrate all…

MacPaw, the developer of popular Mac and iOS apps, has released a new iPhone app called CleanMyPhone. This helps users delete duplicate photos and other unnecessary images to free up storage. The app is divided into three main tabs: Organize, Organize, and Network. Declutter detects and scans your photo library on your local device to find duplicates, screenshots, screen recordings, TikTok videos, app folders, and blurry images. By default, all images are selected to be cleaned with her one tap. However, you can deselect some images before cleaning your photo library. Organize scans photos from the past 7 days, past…