FlashFunders

03/07/2022

"Snowflake shares plunged on Thursday after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings showed slowing revenue growth."

The company also guided for slowing growth in product revenue, a segment which makes up a significant share of its overall sales.

01/28/2022

"Why Singapore, the world’s ‘most crypto-friendly economy,’ is shutting down Bitcoin ATMs"

Singapore's monetary authority warned that Bitcoin ATMs encourage the public to buy cryptocurrency "on impulse."

01/27/2022

"The two-year agreement is worth as much as $15 million and will let Thrill One invest in live events, locker rooms and media production."

Thrill One’s pact with A Shoc is among industry’s biggest ever in annual value

01/26/2022

"Social media conglomerate Meta is exploring plans to let users create, showcase, and sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram, according to a report from The Financial Times."

Meta smells money in the NFT craze

01/25/2022

"Green Labs, founded in 2017 by Scott Sungwoo Choi, Shin and Luke Donghyun Ahn, wants to digitize the entire value chain of agriculture space from crop production to distribution with a mission to address the global food supply problem in a sustainable way."

Green Labs, a South Korean agtech startup, announced this week it has closed a $140 million Series C led by BRV Capital Management, with participation from Skylake Incuvest and SK Square. The startup plans to use the Series C, which brings its total raised to $170 million to date, to expedite its g....

01/24/2022

"Now that Amazon has established itself in live sports, most recently through a $1 billion deal to air “Thursday Night Football,” Apple is trying to jump into the game."

MLB and Apple are in talks to stream live regular-season games during the week.

01/23/2022

"It’s no secret the real estate market is skyrocketing, but the Covid pandemic is creating another little-known land rush."

Investors are paying millions for plots of land — but not in New York or Beverly Hills. In fact, the plots do not physically exist here on Earth.

01/22/2022

"Big businesses are beginning to permeate every area of spaceflight, from the most spectacular private launches to the smallest detail."

01/21/2022

"Millions of investors, speculators, and crypto hobbyists have bought and sold cryptocurrency in the past decade or so, hoping that crypto would be both a powerful investment and a currency of the future. As a result, the cryptocurrency market is booming."

Millions of investors, speculators, and crypto hobbyists have bought and sold cryptocurrency in the past decade or so, hoping that crypto would be both a powerful investment and a currency...

01/20/2022

"SpaceX said on Thursday that its Starlink satellite internet service now has more than 145,000 users in 25 countries worldwide."

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Thursday gave an update on its Starlink internet service, as the company launched more satellites into orbit.

01/19/2022

"The two compounds commonly found in h**p -- called cannabigerolic acid, or CBGA, and cannabidiolic acid, or CBDA -- were identified during a chemical screening effort as having potential to combat coronavirus, researchers from Oregon State University said."

Cannabis compounds prevented the virus that causes Covid-19 from penetrating healthy human cells, according to a laboratory study published in the Journal of Nature Products.

01/18/2022

As NFT sales top $4 billion, what's in store for 2022?

Non-fungible token (NFT) sales volume surged past the $4 billion mark in the last month, according to TradingPlatforms.com and data released by DappRadar. The top marketplaces for NFTs included OpenSea, Magic Eden, Axie Infinity, and CryptoPunks, with transactions on OpenSea accounting for over $3 b...