The £7,500 dress that does not exist
Image copyright Shogo Kimura Image caption Mary Ren in the digital dress bought by her husband Earlier this year Richard Ma, the chief executive of San Francisco-based security company Quantstamp, spent $9,500 (£7,500) on a dress for his wife.That is a lot of money for a dress, particularly when it does not exist, at least…
Cryptocurrency blockchain BiKi.com Announces 11th BiKi Partner Node J.M. Consultancy Services Limited
11th November, 2019, Singapore – Gearing up for a full-house turnout this evening at the opening event of Singapore Blockchain Week, BiKi.com’s international team continues to push forward on the globalization front. The digital assets trading firm is pleased to announce its 11th BiKi Partner Node, blockchain advisory, J.M. Consultancy Services Limited. Hopping on the…
Lemonade gets a nastygram from Deutsche Telekom over its use of magenta, says it will fight
Deutsche Telekom is perhaps best known around the world as the telco behind mobile carrier T-Mobile, but today it’s making an appearance in a lesser-known yet also regular role: trademark troll. The company’s German lawyers have sent a letter to Lemonade, the AI-based insurance startup headquartered in New York, demanding it cease using magenta —…
Cryptocurrency blockchain Michael Novogratz Warns China’s Digital Currency Revolution Might Undermine U.S. Reserve Status
China is on a fast track to becoming a global digital currency power. Billionaire Michael Novogratz warns that the country might undermine the United States’ reserve status. Some politicians are wary about embracing cryptocurrency networks. Billionaire Michael Novogratz has warned that the United States’ reserve status is likely to be undermined by China’s blockchain and…
Daily Crunch: Facebook fights (some) election lies
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. New Facebook features fight election lies everywhere but ads Facebook made a slew of announcements designed to stop 2020 election interference…
Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers
Danielle Bernstein is just 27 years old, but she’s been running her own business for 10 years. First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. With new…
Social-media influencers: Incomes soar amid growing popularity
Image copyright BBC/Reuters Image caption Zoe Sugg (Zoella), singer Rita Ora and model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley are all social-media influencers The money made by social-media influencers has risen meteorically in the last few years, according to a new report.Marketing firm Izea found the average price of a sponsored photo on Instagram has jumped from $134 (£104)…
Squarespace acquires social media authoring startup Unfold
Over the past year or two, Squarespace has been expanding beyond website-building with new products like email marketing and its first acquisition (of an online scheduling tool). Today, it’s announcing a move into social media content creation with the acquisition of Unfold, which offers templates for creating stories on Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat — you…
Where LA’s top consumer VCs are looking to invest
From a fundraising perspective, Los Angeles has become just the southern-most part of the Bay Area. Top-tier VCs from SF visit LA regularly, and entrepreneurs raise from investors upstate and downstate in one process. Anecdotally, as an LA resident of 4 years, there’s been a palpable uptick of entrepreneurs from the Bay Area who move…