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Several high-profile websites including HSBC, Airbnb and British Airways hit by outages

The websites of several high-profile companies including HSBC, Airbnb and British Airways were hit by outages on Thursday.A message on the BA website read: "Service Unavailable - DNS failure. The ser

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Visa acquires Currencycloud, which makes APIs for remittances and currency transfers, in a $963M deal

A year and a half after Currencycloud raised $80 million in a round that included Visa, the London-based developer of APIs that powered remittance and currency exchange services is getting even closer

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Bitcoin rallies after Elon Musk says Tesla is 'most likely' to resume accepting it

The entrepreneur's comments, after Tesla said earlier this year that it would stop accepting the cryptocurrency for payment, lifted Bitcoin's value after it had fallen below $30,000 earlier in the week.

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India’s BlackBuck valued at $1 billion in $67 million fundraise

India’s trucking system has a big inefficiency problem that continues to drag the economy. BlackBuck, one of the handful of startups that is digitizing the freight and logistics across India, has just

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Outplay gets $7.3M from Sequoia Capital India to help outbound sales team scale their campaigns

Outbound sales managers typically rely on high volumes of inquiries to find customers, but this means that their revenue is often in proportion to the size of their team. Outplay helps them scale more

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Upgrade launches a credit card with bitcoin rewards

Fintech startup Upgrade is launching a new credit card today. The Upgrade Bitcoin Rewards Card is a classic Visa credit card that works across the Visa network. But you get 1.5% in bitcoin rewards whe

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These simple metrics will tell you if your startup is ready to scale

Finding go-to-market fit (GTM) is a pivotal moment for a startup. It means you’ve found a repeatable formula for finding and winning lead that can be written into a repeatable GTM playbook. But before

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Clubhouse is now out of beta and open to everyone

One year later, Clubhouse is finally out of beta. The company announced Wednesday that it would end its waitlist and invite system, opening up to everybody. Now, anybody can follow Clubhouse links, ho

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British man arrested over Twitter hack that saw celeb accounts including Obama and Bezos post Bitcoin scam

The man, a 22-year-old called Joseph O'Connor, is accused of taking part in a series of account hijackings that defrauded people following celebrity accounts out of cryptocurrency,

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Yapily raises $51 million for its open banking API by focusing on infrastructure

Fintech startup Yapily has raised a $51 million Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. The company has been working on a single, unified open banking API for several European markets. Develo

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Elon Musk: Tesla to open up global charging network to other EVs later this year

Tesla will allow other electric vehicles to access its global network of chargers later this year, CEO Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday. The comment follows years of chatter by Musk that signaled the company

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YouTube’s newest monetization tool lets viewers tip creators for their uploads

YouTube announced its latest feature, Super Thanks, on Tuesday. This is YouTube’s fourth Paid Digital Good, which is what the platform calls any product that lets fans directly pay creators. So

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Square launches business bank accounts

One step at a time, Square is creating a new bank from scratch. Today, the company is launching a new product called Square Banking that combines a checking account, savings accounts, debit cards and

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South Korean leaders apologize for navy ship COVID-19 outbreak

South Korea's Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum speaks to reporters as he arrives at the government complex in Seoul. /AFP South Korea's prime minister and defense minister apologized as hundreds of

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NFT market OpenSea hits $1.5 billion valuation

It’s been a wild 2021 for NFT auction marketplace OpenSea. The startup was exceedingly well-positioned in a niche space when NFTs exploded earlier this year seemingly out of nowhere. Since then,

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First Olympic online gaming event held ahead of Tokyo Games

A view of virtual baseball. /Mayu Yoshida E-sports, or competitive video gaming, may be inching closer to becoming an official Olympic sport after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) hos

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France reintroduces curfews to curb Delta variant of COVID-19

03:14 A nightly curfew is being reintroduced in one region in southern France because of the surge of the Delta variant of COVID-19.Bars and restaurants in Pyrenees-Orientales, which is