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Nowadays we hear a lot about startups trying to capitalize on the fintech opportunity. One did such a thing now in Mexico by closing on a new sum of funding. What began as a $7.4 million Series A last January now has now grown to $26.4 million in a recent extension of Mexican challenger bank Albo.Led by the U.S.-based Valar Ventures this event can be marked as one of the largest early rounds for a Mexican startup. It seems Albo got its investment from Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel, in the...

Upvest has successfully raised €7 million (about $7.8 million) in a recently concluded Series A funding round. The startup is based in Germany and is focused on tokenizing financial assets on a blockchain for companies who need to.According to a report from The Block, the startup plans to use the funds it just raised to accommodate the expansion of its blockchain API (application programming interface) so that the platform can do more tokenization for more kinds of companies including private...

Saudi oil giant Aramco has achieved the target valuation goal of $2 trillion in the second day of trading. Sources indicate that shares reached Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s target briefly humped by 10% to 38.7 riyals but it returned to previous levels of 37 riyals as the market opened. Pundits had long since been skeptical about the feasibility of the Saudi Aramco IPO before now. Sources further indicate that about 1.5% of the total value of the state-owned oil giant was listed earlier...

As the year is coming to an end, the Android community seems to be more and more eager for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S11, and we already have plenty of details about it as well.The implied design of the new phone has, of course, already leaked, with some of them even claiming that there might be five different S11 versions, including Galaxy S11e and Plus flavors. The look will be similar but camera systems on the back should be different.What we officially know is that Snapdragon 865...

The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) said that it will soon introduce changes and upgrade its virtual currency license famously known as BitLicense. In the cryptocurrency community, NYDFS is well-known for already having a strict set of rules setting the highest regulatory benchmark standards.On Wednesday, December 11, Superintendent Linda Lacewell announced that the regulator will modify rules for the approval process of new digital currencies. Under the existing set of...

Jack Dorsey starts with the memories of the early days of Twitter. When it was decentralized and some people were saying they should continue that way. Yet, the dangers of the modern Internet influenced the development and Twitter was intensively centralized to solve several troubles.However, now Twitter CEO is seeing some new challenges and he claims that centralized social media cannot solve them. For instance, centralized enforcement of global policies cannot address abuse and misleading...

Sports footwear and apparel company Nike announced it has been given a patent to tokenize its shoes on the Ethereum blockchain.In a document posted on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on December 10, Nike stated that its plan to generate unique IDs and create ERC 721 tokens for some shoes, dubbed CryptoKicks.When buying shoes, people will be able to “unlock” these tokens and then link them with unique owner IDs to confirm ownership. The token will not be used only as a representative of a...

Based on the recently revealed information, we all can make a conclusion about the passion of the second-largest bank by assets the Chinese Construction Bank (CCB) to blockchain. Sources indicate that CCB has introduced a refactoring platform that is to run totally on its own blockchain. The platform is aimed at corporate clients in the business of factoring and its goal is to improve operations and reduce risks and costs at the same time.Factoring is a fund-raising model where invoices from...

Pre-orders for Apple’s new Mac Pro desktop computer officially began yesterday. The Mac Pro which was initially announced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June is priced at $5,999 for the desktop unit alone. Unlike many desktop computers especially with Windows, the Mac Pro’s 6k Pro Display XDR monitor is sold separately for an interesting $4,999, pushing the price of both units up to $11,000. However, this price seemingly only gets you the bare minimum and if you want...

General Motors has introduced the new versions of its best-selling models the Chevrolet Tahoe and the Suburban SUVs. Sources indicate that the new versions of the popular models are larger than previous ones with a whole lot of technology and new features that combine both safety and comfort. Industry pundits have indicated that the profits made from the sales of these two models will propel the automaker to complete the self-driving cars and electric vehicles which include the 20 planned to...