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The famous Big 3 – Amazon, Microsoft and Google – went crazy in this earning season with their revenues made through cloud infrastructure reaching almost $22 billion. The rulers of the cloud infrastructure market have driven major societal change via their dominance and role in online activities, unlike other tech giants as is for example IBM. They are ruling the online market through anti-competitive practices, constant-rising financial power, and intellectual property law.Be it as it may,...

Even though there’s currently no official word from the company, it has been reported that China’s Bitmain Technologies – one of the largest crypto mining manufactures in the world – has secretly made an official application with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to float an initial public offering (IPO). The move is also said to be fully backed by a German multinational financial services company, Deutsche Bank.Because it is supposedly a secret filing, there aren’t...

As next year heats up with television streaming becoming one of the key areas of intense competition in the technology and entertainment world, AT&T’s WarnerMedia has indicated that its new streaming service will fall 1 cent below $15 at $14.99 monthly of which it expects users of the service to be more than satisfied with the pricing.WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey at a corporate event in California on Tuesday indicated the media arm’s willingness to commit to the project to the fullest....

Scopely, the Lon Angeles-based mobile game development platform has recently raised $200 million in the Series D funding round. Until now, the free-to-play mobile-games publisher $458 million in total. With the latest fundraising, Scopley’s valuation has hit a massive $1.7 billion.The Series D funding round was led by NewView Capital, along with participation from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), investment firm BlackRock, and Scottish asset management firm Baillie Gifford....

Photo: CoinGecko / InstagramCoinGecko, a coin market ranking chart aggregator that provides a fundamental analysis of the crypto market, has announced it is preparing to roll out its own section for monitoring cryptocurrency derivatives. According to the company, its offering will be the first of its kind.Announcing: CoinGecko Derivatives! ??At a glance, you'll see aggregated data for the derivatives market including pricing, funding, open interest, volume and more!Currently covering over...

The blockchain startup Ripple is currently facing some major regulatory hurdles as investors have raised questions over the state of XRP being securities. To tackle this matter at hand, Ripple has brought some financial industry heavyweights to its board.In one such move, Ripple has recently appointed ex Bank of America executive – Benjamin Melnicki – as its head of Regulatory Affairs. Melnicki’s job at Ripple will be communicating and maintaining absolute transparency regarding Ripple’s...

eToro, the global social investing platform, just launched its innovative “CopyTrading” feature for U.S. users. It will allow the app’s 11 million accounts to automatically copy the moves of top securities traders. They’ll win – or lose – the same percentage of their investment. It’s like following someone on social media but with money. eToro Director of Finance and Operations Hassan Ahmed revealed on Twitter that CopyTrader has made its way to the U.S. Ever the innovative fintech...

One of the biggest bitcoin miner manufacturers, the Avalon Bitcoin miner Canaan Creative, publicly filed for a U.S. Initial Public Offering (IPO) on Monday, with big names as underwriters. Credit Suisse, Galaxy Digital, Citigroup, China Renaissance, CMBI, Huatai Securities and Tiger brokers are obliged to pay for and accept delivery of the ADSs offered by this prospectus.The second-largest manufacturer of ASIC mining hardware after Bitmain, Canaan plans to list its shares on Nasdaq under the...

In what sounds like the makings of the plot of a telenovela series, top crypto billionaire and founder of cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain Micree  Ketuan Zhan has been forced out of his own company where he holds about 60% control. CEO and fellow co-founder Jihan Wu has terminated all the day-to-day working positions and responsibilities that Micree Zhan had and held within the organization down to the deletion of his e-mail and denial of access to Bitmain’s premises.Bitmain, meanwhile,...

Just a few days after Facebook officially announced its News feature in collaboration with more than a few major media outfits, the social media giant has announced the launch of a new tool but this time in the health department. The new offering will work in collaboration with several health organizations in the U.S. to help people access health resources much easier as well as design ways to prevent health issues.Dubbed “Preventive Health”, the tool will also set up reminders for users to...