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Samsung Pay Card launches in UK, powered by fintech Curve

Samsung Pay Card, a new Mastercard debit card from the mobile handset giant, has launched in the U.K. today.Powered by London-based fintech Curve, it lets you consolidate all of your other existing ba

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Casa pivots to provide self-custody services to secure bitcoin

Casa, a Colorado-based provider of bitcoin security services, is launching a managed service allowing customers to buy and hold their own bitcoin, rather than using an external custodian like Coinbase

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Apple turns the iPhone into the key for your car

Today at Apple’s annual developer’s conference — held virtually because of COVID — the company announced the ability to control a car with an iPhone. With an upcoming software update, the iPhone can

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China approves American Express for bank card clearance business

The "American Express" logo is seen on a bank card. /VCG China's central bank said it has given American Express approval to set up a bank card clearance business in the country, in a statemen

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HealthJoy launches its revamped employee benefits assistance platform

HealthJoy, a platform that helps employees get the most use out of their benefits, launched its revamped user interface and technology stack today. The startup told TechCrunch that usage has doubled d

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Stocks shoot upward as ‘Phase Three’ stimulus passes Senate and unemployment skyrockets

Stocks soared on Thursday even as the U.S. reported its worst unemployment numbers in 50 years of tracking data.The pain felt on main street was offset for investors by the federal government opening

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Coinbase Wallet lets you earn interest with deeper DeFi integration

Coinbase’s mobile wallet app Coinbase Wallet puts you in control of your crypto assets. The app already lets you access decentralized crypto apps (dapps) using a dapp browser. But Coinbase is going o

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TransferWise partners with Alipay for international money transfers

TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service most recently valued by investors at $3.5 billion, has partnered with China’s Aliplay for international transfers.The

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Horizon raises another $5M to put virtual items on the blockchain and launch its first game

If a player picks up an item in an online video game, who owns that item? The player, or the company that made the game?In most cases, the answer is probably closer to the latter. The item may be in t

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Blockchain security startup CoolBitX raises $16.75M Series B

CoolBitX, a blockchain security startup based in Taiwan, announced today it has raised a $16.75 million Series B led by returning investor SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial group.Korean cryptocurrenc

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China's top messenger Wechat to charge withdrawal fee

Tencent Inc, owner of China's most popular mobile phone social app WeChat, has announced that it will charge fees for withdrawing money from the app's "wallet" from March 1.