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Congo student: ‘I skip meals to buy online data’
Image copyright Getty Images Bonheur Malenga, a Congolese university student, found himself facing a dilemma one day last month about whether to purchase online data.”As I was hungry, I didn’t know if I should buy food or get a 24-hour internet bundle,” he told the BBC.The 27-year-old, who is studying engineering, relies on his parents…
Cryptocurrency blockchain China Guarantees Citizens On-Demand Anonymity With State Digital Currency
The digital currency will allow anonymity to users… but only to an extent.Analysts are predicting the government-backed crypto will be out early next year.Blockchain efforts by the People’s Bank of China have ramped up in recent weeks.China has brushed aside concerns that its planned government-backed crypto will be used to keep tabs on the activities…
SocialRank sells biz to Trufan, pivots to a mobile LinkedIn – TechCrunch
What do you do when your startup idea doesn’t prove big enough? Run it as a scrawny but profitable lifestyle business? Or sell it to a competitor and take another swing at the fences? Social audience analytics startup SocialRank chose the latter and is going for glory. Today, SocialRank announced it’s sold its business, brand,…
Cryptocurrency blockchain China Hype Implodes as Bitcoin Completely Retraces to Pre-Rally Levels
Bitcoin shows signs of a pump-and-dump scheme. A renowned analyst says BTC is dying. Despite the bearish sentiment, countries around the world want to allow investors to trade the pioneer cryptocurrency. On Oct. 25, Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the nation about the “important role [that blockchain technology would play] in the next round of…
Seismic acquires Percolate to expand its marketing tools
Seismic is announcing that it’s acquiring Percolate in a deal that it says is combining “two essential pillars of the marketing technology stack.” It sounds like the two companies aren’t direct competitors, but they offer related tools: Seismic helps companies create and manage the content they use in sales and marketing, while Percolate expanded from…
Brexit ad blitz data firm paid by Vote Leave broke privacy laws, watchdogs find
A joint investigation by watchdogs in Canada and British Columbia has found that Cambridge Analytica-linked data firm, Aggregate IQ, broke privacy laws in Facebook ad-targeting work it undertook for the official Vote Leave Brexit campaign in the UK’s 2016 EU referendum. A quick reminder: Vote Leave was the official leave campaign in the referendum on the…
Cryptocurrency blockchain ChainUP and BiKi.com Host Opening Event of Singapore Blockchain Week
7th November, 2019, Singapore, Singapore – Whitelabel exchange platform ChainUP and digital assets trading firm BiKi.com kick off Singapore Blockchain Week with the opening event on November 11th. The rest of the week will see premium industry events Blockshow Asia, Singapore Fintech Festival and CoinMarketCap: The Capital, taking place alongside a buffet of fringe events.…
China Roundup: TikTok stumbles in the US and Huawei shipments continue to surge
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. It’s been a very busy last week of October for China’s tech bosses, but first, let’s take a look at what some of them are…
The big election trade-off – what have we learned?
Image copyright Getty Images The emergence of these lengthy secret accounts of two years of US-UK trade discussions are important for several reasons. They are the clearest account of a deal that could be done and dusted in the Parliament that is about to be elected. Almost zero detail on the approach to such a…
Cryptocurrency blockchain Binance CEO CZ Says 1.4 Billion People are Behind the Price of Bitcoin, but Who are They?
Binance’s CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) believes bitcoin will hit $16,000 very “soon-ish.” A 4chan anonymous user who accurately predicted bitcoin’s trajectory earlier this year turned out to be wrong in October. CZ claims 1.4 billion people are behind bitcoin. Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the CEO of Binance, recently stated that 1.4 billion people are working on…