Dapper Labs said to lay off 20% more of its full-time employees

Less than four months after parting ways with more than 20% of its employees, Dapper Labs decided to let another 20% of full-time staff go, according to a document obtained by The Block. In an e...

Base Protocol’s token jumps 250% despite no affiliation with Coinbase

Base Protocol’s token skyrocketed today, reaching a high of nearly $7.50 around 11:30 a.m EST after months of price stagnation below $1. The spike may have been caused by a misunders...

Metallicus Executives Announce Formation of FBBT Holdings, To Deliver Banking And Financial Services to Tech Industry and Investors

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Executives of Metallicus, Inc., a financial services and technology company, have announced the formation of FBBT Holdings, Inc., to expand banking and financial services...

Do The Top Tech Stocks Still Have Bite In 2023?

getty Key takeaways Most tech stocks faced severe challenges in 2022, including supply chain bottlenecks, closing factories and decreased demand due to inflation Companies like Tesla and Netflix exper...

China tech companies are closely watching ChatGPT’s A.I. skills

A display at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — The business story of ChatGPT right now is...

Tezos (XTZ) Rallies After Reveal of Partnership With Tech Giant Google

Smart contract platform Tezos (XTZ) is running up on news that the project has formed a partnership with tech giant Google. A new press release reveals that Google Cloud will be a validator on the Tez...

Moderna Hopes To Build On mRNA Tech Used In Its Covid Shots—By Targeting Genetic Diseases

Topline Moderna on Wednesday announced a new partnership with Life Edit Therapeutics geared towards finding and developing treatments for rare genetic diseases and other conditions, as the Massachuset...

Solana Spaces gives fans final week to snag free merch ahead of shut down in Miami, NYC

Solana Spaces is giving fans a final week to snag free merchandise before it shuts down stores after hosting more than 75,000 people and nearly 50 events. “We’ve made the difficult decisio...

SBF to hire tech expert to consult on trial after breaching bail conditions – private citizens urge arrest

Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers said Feb. 21 that the defense has acquiesced to the court’s request to hire an independent technical expert to consult on bail conditions and is currently looki...

Bankman-Fried searching for tech expert to advise on bail dispute, lawyers say 

Legal • February 21, 2023, 4:13PM EST Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers are searching for a tech expert to advise the court on his bail dispute, they told a federal judge in a letter on Tuesday.  “The...

Why Alibaba Stock And Its Tech Peers Trading Lower Premarket?

JD.Com, Inc (NASDAQ: JD) is eyeing a 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) subsidy campaign against the budget shopping app PDD Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PDD) in Early March to compete. The subsidies will cover ...

China Tech Giants Tumble as Resurgence Spurs Fear of a Price War

(Bloomberg) — China’s internet firms are revving up efforts to outdo each other since Beijing began to wind back its bruising internet crackdown, spurring an abrupt surge in competition that’s t...

Edogawa Ward in Tokyo to Use Metaverse Tech to Solve ‘Hikikomori’ Problem – Metaverse Bitcoin News

Edogawa Ward in Tokyo plans to use metaverse tech to help social recluses, also known as “hikikomori,” begin to integrate with society again. The ward will organize a series of hybrid (virtual and in-...

Tech Giant Globant Believes the Metaverse Will Have Its Make or Break Moment in 2023 – Metaverse Bitcoin News

Globant, a Luxembourg-based tech giant with Argentine origins, has referred to the short-term future of the metaverse in its latest Tech Trends report. According to the company, this year the metavers...

New YouTube CEO Is Bullish on Web3 Tech Like NFTs and the Metaverse

After serving as YouTube’s Chief Product Officer for over seven years, Neal Mohan was appointed last week to lead the Google-owned streaming platform after former CEO Susan Wojcicki said she’d be step...

Should YouTube, Twitter Be More Responsible For Dangerous Content? Supreme Court Considers Tech Critics

Topline The Supreme Court considers how responsible major social media platforms—Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, especially—are for their most dangerous posts, challenging broad protections that tech comp...

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple And Microsoft: All Remain In Downtrends

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft getty You wouldn’t necessarily know it if all you read was from the excited, enthusiastic bloggers who claim the late-in-the-year 2022 lows were the bottom of the cy...

YouTube Announces Chief Product Officer and Web3 Tech Bull as New CEO

While the new YouTube head said last year that the metaverse was still in its infancy, the company’s parent company has been consistently integrating the Web3 services. The new YouTube CEO, Neal Mohan...

Chinese Tech Giant Tencent Lays off 300 Staff From Metaverse Unit

Tencent has scrapped developing a specialized metaverse ring controller. The company’s interest in the field was reignited in 2021. Tencent one of the largest Chinese tech firms has laid off around 30...

Jasper’s Generative AI Conference Breathes New Optimism Into The Beaten Down Tech Industry

(Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Key Takeaways Last Tuesday, Artificial intelligence startup Jasper hosted a sold-out generat...

Lenovo shares jump as tech giant guides for second-half rebound

Lenovo Group Ltd. shares 992, +4.72% jumped in early trade on Monday, as investors shrugged off the latest drop in the Chinese technology giant’s quarterly profit and looked forward to an expected reb...

Chinese Tech Giants Tencent and Bytedance Plan Cuts in Their Metaverse Divisions – Metaverse Bitcoin News

According to reports, Tencent and Bytedance, two Chinese tech giants, are planning to execute a significant number of job cuts in their metaverse divisions. Tencent recognized it is making some staff ...

Tech Opportunities In Climate Change And An Aging Population

GLYN KIRK/AFP via Getty Images AFP via Getty Images Tech opportunities in areas like 5-G, cloud computing, healthcare, and finance took up the last posting. This one examines opportunities in meeting ...

The Supreme Court is about to hear a case that could upend protections Big Tech has enjoyed for years—and the internet may never be the same

For years, Washington has been stumped about how to regulate the internet—or if it should even try. But the Supreme Court is set to hear a case next week that could completely transform our online wor...

ChatGPT, AI And Other Tech Have Gartner Teasing A Breakout

Helping clients tap the power of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence is just one way Gartner (IT) drives smarter decision making. From enhancing AI insights for AstraZeneca (AZN) to helping companies ...

As Big Tech cuts workers, other industries are desperate to hire them

Workers who jumped from one high-paying job to another as Big Tech companies staffed up at a dizzying pace in recent years are now considering leaving the sector entirely as those same large employers...

Bankman-Fried’s Stanford-Connected Backers and the Decline of Tech Prestige

Join the most important conversation in crypto and web3! Secure your seat today In his immediate response to media queries, former dean of Stanford’s law school Larry Kramer gave a very personal expla...

Tencent latest tech giant to slash metaverse hardware plans: Reuters

Tencent became the latest tech giant to scale back its bet on the metaverse, as it rolled back plans to create virtual reality hardware, according to a Reuters report.  This translates as headco...

China’s Top Tech Banker Goes Missing, Unnerving Finance Industry

(Bloomberg) — The disappearance of high-profile banker Bao Fan is fueling speculation of a renewed clampdown on China’s finance industry. Most Read from Bloomberg Bao’s company China Renaissance...

Snap Rolls Out This Tiffany Approved AR Tech, Debuts Public Facing Exhibit for LFW

SNAP powered AR for Richard Quinn at Vogue x Snapchat: Redefining the Body exhibit in London. SNAP Snap and Vogue are launching a 16 day augmented reality AR exhibition to coincide with London Fashion...

Chinese Tech Dealmaker Bao Fan Goes Missing

Fan Bao is the chairman and chief executive officer of China Renaissance Group. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg China Renaissance Holdings says it has been unable to contact its Chairman and CEO Bao Fan, ...

DOJ “Task Force” Will Target Tech Used By Americans

Topline The Justice Department will form a new task force aimed at preventing China and other foreign governments from accessing data through technology used by Americans, a top DOJ official said Thur...