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In a major turn of event at crypto startup Circle, Sean Neville will be stepping down from his role as the Co-CEO of the company. In an email secured by CoinDesk, Neville notified his decision during a quarterly meeting among the Board of Directors.Neville found this Boston-based peer-to-peer payments technology company in partnership with Jeremy Allaire, in 2014. While Neville decided to step down from the role of Co-CEO, he will continue as the company’s independent director.Neville has not...

Back in 2015, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin floated the Alphabet Inc. holding company to function as Google’s parent, allowing the duo more time and space to pursue other ventures. Sundar Pichai was made the chief of Google and has been running the tech giant since then. Now, the founders have announced their decision to step down from their position at Alphabet Inc., and have chosen Pichai to also lead Alphabet.The decision to create Alphabet in the first place was somewhat...

A growing trend in the financial technology world has been a continuous push towards consolidation where the bigger fish is acquiring the smaller fish. There is also an increasing number of interesting startups coming up. The acquisitions happen for the involved companies to enjoy enhanced economies of scale in a business model where all transactions bring incremental returns.However, on December 3, a startup that built the concept of consolidation into its basic DNA raised another funding...

As we are coming to the year’s end we somehow always tend to look in the past to reconcile what was good and what wasn’t. Speaking of the IPOs, we can surely say this year was marked by numerous IPO failures with more than half of stock market debuts now trading below their initial offering.We can just mention hail-raiding companies as are Uber and Lyft who were probably the biggest losers of the year. However, there were also plenty of unicorns that got smashed in 2019 including Peloton (the...

While it may sound like a story out of the movies or motivational books that many people read today, the story of Bom Kim who is the founder of Coupang, a $9 billion electronic commerce company has been inspiring through an through. Coupang has been described by many to be South Korea’s “Amazon”, an appellation that hasn’t been accorded to any other company; at least not yet. Coupang has been one of those companies that have had a history of disruption and reinvention which has helped make it...

In what seems like an about-face, global banking custodian State Street has drastically cut down its Decentralized Ledger Technologies team, as sources indicate. Rather than focus on building a complete DLT ecosystem from scratch which hitherto before now had been the strategy that State Street pursued, the custodian has decided to focus on digital assets which include tokenized stocks and bonds as well cryptocurrencies. Such an approach is to be applied instead of a bottom-up strategy which...

It seems Kuwait’s government could insert at least $1 billion in the initial public offering of Saudi Arabia state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco. Sources familiar with the situation said that the kingdom asked its regional partners to support the share sale valued as high as $2 trillion.Until recently, the Kuwait Investment Authority had been pretty much unwilling to commit significant funds to the IPO. However, the government explained that a stake was in the country’s strategic interest,...

Over the last ten years or so, the American stock market has been performing quite impressively, with continuous rises in its general bull run. Since 2009, companies – notwithstanding price drops over smaller periods – have been doing better with time, on average. German multinational investment and financial services firm Deutsche Bank AG has now revealed the driving factor behind this decade-long bull run.According to a tweet from market analyst Holger Zschaepitz with German media company...

“By working with Binance X [the company’s developer network] and Launchpad, DappReview will bring in more talented Dapp developers and assist promising Dapp projects on fund-raising. A lot more exciting synergies with Trust Wallet, Binance Research, etc. DappReview will partner with the public chains and protocols in the Dapp space through Binance’s ecosystem.”Niu further added that by Q1 2020, DappReview is planning to release a new set of analytical tools and products. Besides, this...

Consumers in the United States made it again. The record for Cyber Monday was hit and it amounted to $9.4 billion spent or 18.9% year-over-year growth, according to preliminary data by Adobe Analytics.However, most of the buyers didn’t wait until Monday to start shopping since retailers started sales earlier in the month, just after Thanksgiving and Black Friday. As we have already reported Black Friday online consumers spent $7.4 billion.Among the winners of this holiday season are Best Buy,...