This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). Nine months after its launch last December, the latter has completed a seed sale token round of $3.2 million at a $30M fully…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
To mark down your portfolio or not mark down your portfolio? That is a question many venture capitalists are grappling with right now. But first, what does that mean? VCs keep a running tab of the value of each fund and entire portfolio based on the prior valuations each company raised at. The value of…
Apple may have a last-minute surprise in store at its iPhone 14 event. We may see more than just the expected iPhone 14 phones and Apple Watch Series 8 wearables during the Sept. 7 event, according to Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter at Bloomberg. The Apple prognosticating reporter said a follow-up to 2019’s AirPods Pro…
Rumors of a beefier, athlete-focused Apple Watch have been making the rounds in the run-up to the launch of the iPhone 14 and other devices this week, and a fresh set of design leaks have added more fuel to the fire. Tipsters Sonny Dickson and UnclePan have shared new images (on Twitter and Weibo, respectively)…
DJI first hit the action camera market back in May 2019 with the DJI Osmo Action, which quickly established itself as a serious GoPro alternative and one of the best action cameras around. If you were a fan of that innovative tough cam, the rumor mill has some potentially good news – a spiritual successor is now…
Hunting down a specific chat message or thread in Microsoft Teams could soon be a lot easier thanks to a new update coming to the platform. The video conferencing service has revealed a fix that will let users track down full chat conversation threads after clicking on a search message results. The update means that…
Ben Stiller testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on May 1, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images Russia is banning Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, and 23 other Americans from entering its country. The new round of sanctions also named several US senators, including Pat Toomey and Kyrsten Sinema. Stiller and Penn…
Former President Donald Trump speaks at CPAC in Dallas, Tex., on August 6, 2022. Brandon Bell/Getty Images A federal judge granted Trump’s request for a special master to review seized docs. The special master would screen for “potentially privileged material.” The DOJ had opposed the move, arguing that Trump “lacked standing.” A federal judge in…
Meta has been fined €405 million ($402 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission for its handling of children’s privacy settings on Instagram, which violated Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As Politico reports, it’s the second-largest fine to come out of Europe’s GDPR laws, and the third (and largest) fine levied against Meta by…
European gamers can now pre-order the Sega Mega Drive Mini 2 – the latest classic console harking back to the glory days of gaming. Available from 27 October 2022, the second mini machine will offer 60 games, including a selection of Sega Mega CD titles that weren’t included on the first Mega Drive Mini. Like…