In 2018, Robinhood added crypto trading to its mobile app, letting users buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum without paying trading fees. The move extended the firm's commission-free model from...
In December 2017, Bitcoin traded near $20,000 on major spot exchanges. One year later it had collapsed to roughly $3,200. The 80 percent wipeout vaporized the froth of the initial...
In late 2018, analysts and industry watchers published their annual outlook for consumer technology in the year ahead. The projections for 2019 covered 5G networks, foldable smartphones, a reshaped streaming...
Google Stadia launched on November 19, 2019 with the promise of a console-free future. It shut down on January 18, 2023, after Google refunded every hardware and software purchase. The...
Thoma Bravo, a software-focused investment firm, closed its takeover of Bottomline Technologies on May 13, 2022. The all-cash deal valued the business-payments and financial-technology provider at roughly $2.6 billion. Bottomline...
In 2020, blockchain and crypto moved from a story of survival after the 2018-2019 crash to one of institutional validation, regulatory confrontation, and the birth of a new financial layer...
Dmitri Galinov ran FastMatch, the foreign exchange electronic communication network, from its 2012 founding until 2018. Under his watch, Euronext bought the company in August 2017 for $153 million, with...
In October 2008, a person or group using the name Satoshi Nakamoto published a nine-page white paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. The paper proposed a way to...
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Within days, stay-at-home orders closed offices, factories, and stores across much of the world. Firms that had planned digital...
Patent filings for blockchain computing infrastructure cluster among a handful of firms that treated the technology as a platform, not a currency. Alibaba Group ranked as the single largest filer...
Jason Bates, one of the original co-founders of the UK digital bank Monzo, left his operational role. The parting was amicable. He did not exit for a competitor or to...
Charles Delingpole built two ventures that serve radically different audiences. The first, The Student Room, became the UK's largest online forum for school and university students. The second, ComplyAdvantage, uses...
