Announcements
Averaging more than a million onboardings per year, Philippines’ Coins.ph announced it reached a whopping five million users this week for its mobile payments application (app) and hot crypto wallet. Not content with merely adding numbers for their own sake, the company also revealed it would add two new popular Read more…
Japanese financial giant SBI Group has made an “eight figure USD investment” in a Taiwanese blockchain startup named OwlTing that specializes in travel services and plans its initial public offering (IPO) next year. The Taiwanese company announced that SBI’s deal amounted to 20% of OwlTing’s total equity. OwlTing’s most notable Read more…
Philippine-based Coins.ph has partnered with beep™, the country’s popular contactless payment provider to launch a new function that allows commuters to easily reload their beep™ cards using NFC-enabled Android smartphones. Coins.ph is a digital wallet and mobile payments app that allows the unbanked and the underbanked to store value in Read more…
Rented.com recently announced the availability of Rented Capital, a $125 million fund dedicated to accelerating the growth of the rental property market by closing the financial gap between homeowners who want to rent their properties and earn guaranteed income, and property managers who want to be paid on commission. Rented.com Read more…
Yes, Airbnb just reached cashflow profitability and could be heading to IPO promised land. But, in the long-term, could the technology that gave rise to bitcoin and other digital currencies emerge as a serious threat? Distributed ledger systems can dis-intermediate sharing platforms, say blockchain advocates, eating into the fees that startups like Read more…
Unikoin Gold (UKG) has had its price driven up towards the moon starting this year, hovering in the mid-50c mark before it started smashing through $1. UKG breached $1 on January 4 before rising further on January 7 when UKG started hitting new crypto exchanges. UKG hit $2 before it Read more…
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For Airbnb, getting ready to go public has always been thought of as a “two-year process,” and the company is about halfway through that process, Chief Executive Brian Chesky said at a luncheon hosted by the Economic Club of New York on Monday. That would imply an initial public offering Read more…