In what seems like an end to a disappointing year for troubled startup WeWork the company recently announced its intention to lay off 2,400 workers from the company following near collapse. The once-famed startup announced this on Thursday. The layoffs amount to roughly 20% of its 12,500 strong workforces. Some more layoffs of over 1,000 people are expected as several business units of the company are going to be shut down, merged or sold off as the company refocuses and resets several...
Read More »Merged TD Ameritrade and Charles Schwab Could Balance Fidelity’s Crypto Domination
There are rumors that the bank and stock brokerage company The Charles Schwab Corp. is negotiating a purchase of online broker TD Ameritrade. The two companies are the largest publicly-traded discount brokers in the United States but it is interesting to see what would this merger mean for the cryptocurrency trading.But, let’s start from the beginning. Nebraskan TD Ameritrade has been crypto-friendly for a longer time now – meaning, its clients had the possibility to trade Bitcoin futures...
Read More »Fidelity Digital Assets Is to Onboard Its First Exchange Platform This Year
Fidelity Digital Assets (FDAS), the cryptocurrency division of the Boston-based mutual fund giant, is set to onboard its very fist exchange, before the end of 2019. The FDAS which recently launched a few months ago is currently waxing strong and pushing Fidelity’s position in the broader financial market with both cryptocurrency and traditional sections.Speaking to CoinDesk, Fidelity’s President Tom Jessop has said that the company’s main targets are over-the-counter (OTC) platforms as...
Read More »Ex-Uber CEO Sold Close to $1.5 Billion of Shares Shortly after Lockup Expiration
Co-founder and former Uber Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick, has been in the news recently as he has been offloading his shares in the ride-hailing company, at an alarming rate. Earlier this week, Kalanick disposed approximately $578 million of his Uber shares over a few days notably after a binding lockup period expired on Wednesday, Nov. 6. It would seem like Kalanick might be well on his way to dispose of a lot more of his holdings.According to a Bloomberg report, the ex-CEO’s total...
Read More »Tesla Unleashed Its Futuristic Cybertruck but TSLA Stock Gained Just Slightly
After years of teasing, they have finally done it. Tesla has unleashed its futuristic Cybertruck. Cybertruck is its real name and it does not resemble any other real truck in existence today. However, despite all the excitement during the launch, the TSLA stock just responded slightly gaining around 0.74% currently trading at $354.83.With an angular design that almost resembles Christopher Nolan’s Batmobile, Tesla’s Cybertruck is designed to be tough. It comprises of an “ultra-hard”...
Read More »Kraken Exchange Released Mobile Trading App for Kraken Futures
Kraken, one of the world’s leading crypto exchanges based in San Francisco, has introduced a mobile version of its Kraken Futures trading app.Futures Trading in the palm of your hand. Hot on the heels of our Kraken Pro app, The new Kraken Futures mobile app is now live! https://t.co/MpG0ToYlgO— Kraken Exchange (@krakenfx) November 21, 2019Kraken Futures is a professional platform for trading derivatives on digital assets. Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, Kraken Futures allows...
Read More »CoinMarketCap Enters Strategic Partnership with Yahoo Finance on Data Feed
In what seems like a match made in heaven Verizon’s Yahoo and CoinMarketCap which is the biggest data provider with everything concerning cryptocurrencies have decided to enter a partnership. In the framework of this collaboration, CoinMarketCap will be providing Yahoo Finance with data, historical information educational content from all its feeds concerning the crypto space. By all statistics, CoinMarketCap is the largest cryptocurrency information site by sheer volume past and current. It...
Read More »Apple’s Airpods Sales Estimated to Hit 60 Million by End of Year
Back in September, Apple released new products including the long-awaited iPhone 11 and its variations. In October, the tech giant released new Airpods Pro, with a few more features and more costly as well. Since the release, Apple has sold a lot more units than initially planned for in both cases and now, reports show that Apple is in for a bigger end of the year, especially with the Airpods.At the same time, Apple stock is climbing higher. Now AAPL is trading at around $262. Just to...
Read More »DappRadar Discovers $3.8 Billion Worth of Hidden Activity on Ethereum
Market analytics site DappRadar made a big disclosure earlier this week on Tuesday, November 19. DappRadar, which ranks and tracks decentralized apps recently discover $3.8 billion worth “hidden activity” on the Ethereum blockchain network.Besides this, DappRadar also uncovered $73 million trading volumes in the last seven days, within Ethereum Dapps. Thus, after this finding, the Ethereum Dapps volume has reportedly surged from $27 million to above $100 million. Surprisingly, this finding...
Read More »Binance Refutes any Rumors of Police Raid on Its Shanghai Office
The rumor in the air has been that Binance has shutdown its Shanghai following a police raid. On Thursday, November 23, several online publications including CoinSpeaker reported that Binance has relocated its 100-member Shanghai team to other offices in Singapore.The report also states that Binance has planned to shut down its Shanghai office completely. Furthermore, it added that Binance CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao and the company’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Yi He, have already moved...
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