Workplace chatbot firm Moveworks reaches $2.1B valuation
Moveworks Inc., a startup that helps with employee technology support, is now valued at $2.1 billion, according to founder and...
Germany Thwarts Cyberattack, Denies Impact on Banking System
German authorities thwarted a cyberattack on a data service provider used by federal agencies and pushed back on a report...
Bank of Israel testing Ethereum tech in digital shekel trial
The Bank of Israel is trying out Ethereum’s technology in a recently launched internal digital shekel trial, a spokesman said....
A $130M crypto quant nets big returns as options boom
Forget Elon Musk tweets, regulatory missives and Bitcoin’s energy consumption. To hedge fund manager Shiliang Tang, the biggest crypto story...
AI-driven hedge fund rules out Bitcoin for lack of ‘fundamentals’
A Swedish hedge fund that returned roughly four times the industry average last year using artificial intelligence won’t touch Bitcoin,...
JPMorgan buys digital wealth firm Nutmeg for UK expansion
JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to buy U.K. digital wealth manager Nutmeg Saving and Investment as it seeks to expand...
Payments processor Marqeta climbs after $1.23 billion IPO
Marqeta Inc., an online card and payment processing company, rose as much as 21% in its trading debut after raising...
Biden will need more than $52B to counter China in chips
President Joe Biden’s blueprint for the U.S. semiconductor industry marks an ambitious effort to set industrial policy for a critical...
What is Fastly and why a slew of websites went offline
An outage at Fastly Inc., a cloud-based content platform that serves many leading international websites, sent swaths of the web...
Ant gets go-ahead for consumer lending unit in sign of thaw
China is allowing Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co. to start operations at its consumer finance company, the first sign of...
