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23.03 / 10:01

business Blockchain NFT Social Media expansion Animoca Brands targets social media giants in latest Web3 expansion plans

Animoca Brands co-founder and chairman Yat Siu stated that his firm will continue to “shepherd companies into Web3” to speed up the evolution of the internet into an open Metaverse.

18.03 / 21:01

Technology cryptocurrency Social Media digital economy Inside Ukraine's digital war: Deputy Minister Bornyakov on resisting with tech, crypto and hacking

Quick fundraising in cryptocurrencies, an army of volunteer hackers, and a strong voice on social media have all helped Ukraine put up an unexpectedly strong front against Russia’s invasion over the past three weeks.

17.03 / 15:05

cryptocurrency Social Media sanctions Which tech companies are cutting ties with Russia over its war in Ukraine?

From social media giants to chipmakers and video game publishers, a growing number of tech companies are halting business with Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

12.03 / 21:23

Social Media Refugees Saudi Arabia carries out mass execution of 81 inmates, biggest in modern history

Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant and terrorist groups -- the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in its modern history.

11.03 / 14:39

Art Social Media Ukraine war: European leaders pour cold water on Kyiv's bid to get EU membership quickly

EU leaders have rebuffed Kyiv's calls for a fast-tracked accession that would see Ukraine join the bloc in record time.

10.03 / 16:11

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American crypto traders and investors are likely to face a new raft of regulations after the United Stated President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order entitled: “Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets.” The document seeks to create a framework of stricter and – some argue – more coherent regulations for the crypto sector.

09.03 / 18:11

Blockchain Ethereum Social Media Web3 platform integrates social commerce app into Circle's payment infrastructure

Web3 infrastructure platform Our Happy Company has announced their inaugural product, OurSong — a social commerce mobile application designed to enable digital creators to monetize their content and cultivate their communities via NFTs — will utilize Circle's established payment infrastructure to drive demand in the creator economy.

08.03 / 17:53

cryptocurrency Social Media sanctions Which tech companies are cutting ties with Russia over its war in Ukraine?

From telecom equipment makers to social media giants and video game publishers, a growing number of tech companies are halting business with Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

08.03 / 00:47

NFT Social Media solana Support Adobe's Behance adds support for Solana NFTs

Behance, the creative showcase platform owned by Adobe, announced on March 7 that users can now connect their Phantom wallet to their Behance accounts and showcase Solana NFTs on their profiles. Phantom is a Solana wallet built for decentralized finance, or DeFi, applications as well as for non fungible tokens, or NFTs. QuickNode, a Miami-based Web3 infrastructure platform, helped build out this feature with Adobe on Solana.

24.02 / 06:37

business Social Media Bitcoin Few calls to 'Buy The Dip'... but uber-rich Family Offices are keen on crypto

Short term social media data suggests that traders aren't calling for buying the Bitcoin (BTC) dip right now... but the long term picture is much brighter, with separate research showing that 77% of family offices in the U.S. are either looking at, or have invested in crypto.

22.02 / 14:01

Facebook Social Media privacy Legal Australian Facebook Faces Legal Fight with Australian Billionaire over Crypto Scam Ads

Meta’s Facebook has filed legal documents in rejection of an action brought by the Australian billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, the nation’s richest man. The latter claims the social media platform should be held liable for “reputation-damaging” crypto scam ads that made use of images of him.

19.02 / 05:15

business Blockchain Social Media Asia Decentralization revolutionizes the creator’s economy, but what will it bring?

From video game enthusiasts monetizing their passions as shout casters to fashion influencers supercharging their careers into livestreamers on e-commerce platforms, the creator economy flourished, evolved and matured in the past year. Largely catalyzed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, contemporary creators benefited from the gradual shift in consumer behaviors as more people came online across the globe. Now valued at over $100 billion, the creator economy is witnessing staggering growth as the worlds of e-commerce, social media and online communities converge.

11.02 / 01:23

NFT Social Media CEO Platform OnlyFans offers NFT profile picture feature

Amrapali "Ami" Gan, OnlyFans' CEO, commented in a statement to Reuters that the online subscription platform known for adult content will enable creators to make nonfungible token, or NFT, profile pictures.

10.02 / 00:21

Blockchain Social Media Polygon Aave Aave launches Web3 social media platform, Lens Protocol

Aave (AAVE), the decentralized finance lending platform, launched the Lens Protocol ecosystem on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain as their way to challenge centralized social media platforms like Twitter or Facebook. What started with an open letter to garner support around the idea that content creators should own and control their digital identities, led to developing a Web3-native social network powered by NFTs.

08.02 / 12:59

Twitter NFT defi Social Media Standard Watch Out, Aave and Twitter's Bluesky Move Towards New Social Media Standard

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave (AAVE) has launched an open-source, decentralized social media ecosystem dubbed Lens Protocol. Concurrently, the Twitter-backed Bluesky project has formed an independent organization to implement its vision of creating "an open and decentralized standard for social media."

08.02 / 11:01

Social Media Football Death Swimming infection Derya Büyükuncu: Former Olympic swimmer wanted for 'insulting' Erdogan over COVID infection

A former Olympic swimmer is wanted in Turkey for "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after he recently tested positive for COVID-19.

01.02 / 04:55

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Tusk Ventures CEO and founder Bradley Tusk says that the failure to regulate cryptocurrency and social media effectively in the United States is a “really good lesson for how we should handle the Metaverse.”

27.01 / 14:49

Adoption Social Media coinbase Reddit Coinbase Gives Preview Of Its NFT Platform, Reddit Tests NFT Profile Pic Feature

In anticipation of the official launch of their non-fungible token (NFT) platform, major crypto exchange Coinbase has shared a preview of the forthcoming product.

25.01 / 22:17

NFT Social Media Web3 YouTube YouTube CEO hints that NFTs could be added to creator platform

YouTube's CEO, Susan Wojcicki, addressed YouTube's priorities for 2022 in a letter published Tuesday on the company blog. Among those priorities is the possibility of adding nonfungible token, or NFT, features for the platform's video creators.

25.01 / 13:36

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The wits who run the McDonald’s PR machine have been busy – and the firm is now enjoying some free Twitter ad space at the expense of the crypto community, with everyone from bitcoin (BTC) miners and maxis to world leaders indulging in some price- (and burger-)themed gallows humor.

24.01 / 12:23

Blockchain Technology Social Media solana Project bridges Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 spurring on the creator economy

Without a doubt, the internet has transformed how the world could receive information, from reading news on Twitter, instead of picking up the daily paper to communicating with friends from around the world through instant messaging. As significant as the contributions of the internet have been, these developments have resulted in an entirely new concern, which one can define in three words — monopolization of power.

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