The Verge

JUNE 23, 2021

New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) voted to block the issuance of new for-hire vehicle licenses for electric vehicles. The company had been hoping to exploit a loophole in the city’s current rules, which caps the number of new FHV licenses but exempts wheelchair-accessible and electric vehicles.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In other words, Blast wanted to give users a way to save money while playing video games. Now as 2021 comes to a close, Cruttenden’s latest fintech, Ant Money, is announcing it has raised $20 million in funding (a mix of previously unannounced seed and Series A capital) and acquired Blast via a stock-for-stock merger.

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Engadget

MARCH 10, 2025

Given that professional photographers want to make money from their work, they don't tend to share their photos there. Enter WikiPortraits , a team of amateur snappers who have been hitting up festivals, award ceremonies and other events to take Creative Commons-licensed shots of high-profile attendees.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

First, we conducted a field experiment in which we asked managers at around 115 restaurants how much money they were willing to send to employees in an investment game an indicator of trust. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. percentage points. Read the original article.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Telda , an Egyptian consumer money app founded by ex-Swvl executive Ahmed Sabbah last April, has raised $20 million in seed funding. “We are humbled to be the first company to receive the license in Egypt. The fintech, in a statement, said it wants to “revolutionize finance for the MENAP region.”

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Deem prefers the term "transnational fraud" over scam, because she believes it more accurately describes how organized international criminal networks and gangs use sophisticated methods in order to steal money and valuable data from their targets. Among those victims, two in five people were robbed of their money.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

As their license states , you’re free to use Goldman Sans for just about anything you like so long as you don’t use it to criticize Goldman Sachs. And although Goldman Sans is nominally a free font, Goldman Sachs retains complete control over the license, allowing it terminate usage for any reason it likes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Into this fray has stepped Bling , a startup founded by a 20-year-old, that offers a finance platform aimed specifically at families, which is designed so that parents can do financial planning for their children, from pocket money to first investments. It’s now raised a €3.5M It’s now raised a €3.5M

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

This will be combined with a shift to a licensing model for its chip hardware, so that they can be produced by multiple third parties. Wiliot says that it already has several agreements in place for the chip licensing part. The plan is for this, in turn, to lead to a new range of sizes and form factors for the chips down the line.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

When companies create digital payments-facing solutions for African countries outside Nigeria and South Africa, building around mobile money is key. According to him, starting pawaPay was to help people send and receive money internationally using mobile money. How big is mobile money in Africa?

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

When budget planning, you will know the recurring cost for licensing and maintenance. And we all know that time is money, right?) If you’re convinced it’s time to buy versus build your data analytics process, choosing the right software is vital in saving you time and money, improving processes, and preparing for the future.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The startup's focus is providing language model solutions released through open-source licenses, so that AI can become "useful" to anyone with no need to spend huge amounts of money or pay to access. Mistral is a new AI company co-founded by former Google and Meta alumni valued at $260 million. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The end of free money and the importance of keeping cash on hand. “They care about how much money they need to put into your company to get to that future and when it will arrive.” “They care about how much money they need to put into your company to get to that future and when it will arrive.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Telecoms and banks lead the majority of online financial transactions carried out in the region via mobile money wallets and bank accounts. An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

In 2018, Opera, popularly known for its internet search engine and browser, launched the OPay mobile money platform in Lagos. While none of these services has significantly scaled, OPay’s fintech and mobile money arm (which is its main play) is thriving. last year to over $2 billion in December.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Arm will operate as an division of Nvidia and will remain headquartered in the UK, and, will “continue to operate its open-licensing model, while maintaining its global customer neutrality,” the company said. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Arm will change its current licensing model.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

A rewards engine designed to incentivize users to save or invest money. It is also now licensing its engagement technology to banks, retailers and fintechs across the Americas. Flourish has piloted or licensed its solution to U.S.-based With clients in the U.S., Moura came to the U.S. Mexico and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The product includes six modules — an asset registry, a system for identifying those assets when they’re used in new content, a licensing system, a dispute resolution system, a payment system and data and reporting to see how your content is being used. We are social animals.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Right now, it’s the company’s mobile money and payment arm that thrives the most. By simply allowing unbanked and underbanked users in Nigeria to send and receive money and pay bills through a network of thousands of agents, OPay has grown at an exponential rate. The company plays in an extremely competitive fintech market.

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Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

BOI (Beneficial Ownership Information) reporting is the government's latest attempt to make sure businesses aren't secretly run by supervillains or money launderers. What on Earth is BOI Reporting? Think of it as LinkedIn for business owners, but mandatory and with more serious consequences for ghosting. Let's get into the details.

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The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

Bitcoin Fog gained “notoriety as a go-to money laundering service for criminals seeking to hide their illicit proceeds from law enforcement,” according to the DOJ. Sterlingov is charged with money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, and money transmission without a license in the District of Columbia.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

“That is just a lot of money” to invest “on a handshake,” the judge said. The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement that allows OpenAI access to part of AP’s text archives. O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

But the companies intend for the money to be spent partly on medical treatment, covering the costs associated with seeking a diagnosis related to any mental health issues the moderator may be suffering. The amount of money a moderator will receive beyond the initial $1,000 will depend on their diagnosis.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Within the last 18 months, the four-year-old startup worked on analyzing fraud data from global money networks, verification of mobile money financial statements and blocklist data from various banks and fintechs within the last 18 months. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Several startups including Slice, Jupiter, Uni and KreditBee have long used the PPI licenses to issue cards and then equip them with credit lines. Amazon Pay, Paytm Postpaid and Ola Money are cautious, too, because many believe that they might be impacted as well. Some banks have been employing the same strategy for like a decade!”

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The Verge

JANUARY 1, 2021

Personally, I think it’s pretty ridiculous that the FAA felt it had to choose between “everyone has to broadcast their location to everyone within earshot” and “everyone has to pay gobs of money to private industry and trust some data broker with their location,” but the reasons why we aren’t going with internet-based tracking make some sense to me.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

And yet, the company needs a lot of money in its bank account to expand to more countries. And it turns out you need cash on your balance sheet in the Philippines if you want to get a license from the local regulator — it doesn’t matter if you have a ton of money sitting in your bank account in London.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The company also boasts money transfer, card issuances and banking licenses in 11 jurisdictions. Unlike other companies that raise money for new products, we aim to expand in the existing sets of what we do,” Nanu said. All of this growth puts the company on a trajectory for an initial public offering, Nanu said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

billion (post-money), it said in a statement Tuesday evening. Tuesday’s news confirms a TechCrunch scoop from June in which we reported that the four-year-old startup was looking to raise about $250 million at a pre-money valuation of $2.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

As startups in Africa continue to grow and raise money at a ridiculous pace, so too will their cap tables expand. Most African startups’ bulk of VC money is from foreign investors, making it imperative for African startups to incorporate abroad, especially in the U.S. pre-seed after bagging country’s first SEC license.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The company says that across its roster of clients — which also includes Dude Perfect , Aphmau , Smokin’ & Grillin’ wit AB and others — Spotter has licensed content that generates over 40 billion monthly watch time minutes. billion dollars. based creator MrBeast, have done multiple deals with Spotter over the years.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

and Senegal-based mobile money provider, has raised $200 million in Series A round of funding. The mobile money market in sub-Saharan Africa is growing exponentially. This past year, up to $500 billion has moved through the accounts of 300 million active mobile money users in the region. Wave , a U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Revolut’s core product is an account to send, hold and receive money combined with a payment card. While Revolut has yet to obtain a banking license in the U.K. its home country), the company now has a full banking license in Lithuania. That would also help when it comes to obtaining a banking license in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. In that time, NALA built a mobile money service in East Africa and scaled it to more than 250,000 users. and the E.U., country, probably France.”.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The list of securities licenses and qualifications the suit claims Gill has. The plaintiff claims they lost money in the case after the stock’s value shot up, allegedly due to Gill’s manipulation. Even the plain clothing he wore in videos was part of Gill’s scheme to defraud, lawyers suggest.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Investors continue to pump money into generative AI tech. billion post-money valuation. Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI are being sued in a class action lawsuit that accuses them of violating copyright law by allowing Copilot to regurgitate sections of licensed code without providing credit. million) at a $1.16

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Futurism

MARCH 3, 2025

As Forbes reports , new data from the content licensing platform TollBit shows that AI chatbots send a whopping 96 percent less traffic to publishers' websites than traditional search engines even as companies like OpenAI and Perplexity promise tangible gains to media companies that partner with them.

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