Month: February 2020
DeFiance: billion-dollar finance, million-dollar hacks, and very little value
Over the last year or so, much-to-most of the cryptocurrency world has pivoted from the failure of “fat tokens” and ICOs, and the faltering growth of “Layer 2” payments like Lightning and the late Plasma Network, to the new hotness known as “DeFi,” which this week was used to ……
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Hitwise to shut down following Jumpshot’s closure
Hitwise has announced that it will wind down its operations after more than 20 years in business. In a statement on its site, the company explained that the sudden closure is the result of an unexpected turn of events, saying: “Due to events outside of our control, Hitwise is winding…
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Galaxy Z Flip teardown reveals that its hinge brushes may not block much dust
iFixit has posted a video teardown of Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Flip, giving us good look at the phone’s internals and revealing that the brushes on its hinge might not stop much dust from getting inside your phone. When Samsung announced the Z Flip last week, it highlighted how the…
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Activision Blizzard exec leaks that Overwatch might become a TV series
Since 2014, Blizzard has released so many breathtaking cinematic videos for Overwatch that most of us have wondered when Blizzard would finally look into adapting the game to the big screen or as a TV show. (The comparisons to Pixar have been around since the very beginning.) Well, an Activision…
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Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace on coronavirus, WeWork and what’s shaking up proptech
Last week, we interviewed Brendan Wallace, a real estate-focused venture capitalist whose portfolio companies include Opendoor, which buys and sell homes, and scooter company Lime, which helps building owners navigate around parking requirements by installing docking stations instead. We first talked with Wallace almost exactly three years ago when he…
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Cloud spending said to top $30B in Q4 as Amazon, Microsoft battle for market share
We all know the cloud infrastructure market is extremely lucrative; analyst firm Canalys reports that the sector reached $30.2 billion in revenue for Q4 2019. Cloud numbers are hard to parse because companies often lump cloud revenue into a single bucket regardless of whether it’s generated by infrastructure or software.…
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