Israel High Tech Scene Week In Review Mar 14 – Mar 20
Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel Israeli Unicorns and IPOs Startup Nation seems to be awash with new unicorns these days. A public company is valued by its market cap. This is defined by the total value of its stock. More...
Cryptocurrency Security Startup Fireblocks Hopes to Bring Blockchain to the World’s Biggest Banks
Fireblocks co-founders Idan Ofrat (from right), Michael Shaulov and Pavel Berengoltz (PR Pic) Fireblocks is an Israeli fintech startup which specializes in cybersecurity. The company’s technology currently More...
India to Ban Bitcoin
The government of India does not like cryptocurrencies. It hates them so much that it now plans on new legislation to prohibit their use. So you may not be able to use Bitcoin in Bombay anymore. A report in More...
Curv Digital Asset Startup Looking to $200 Million Exit
Israeli startup Curv, which offers a cloud based platform for securely managing cryptocurrencies, expects to be bought out for more than $200 million. There is no word yet as to the identity of the potential More...
Billionaires on Bitcoin – From Carl Icahn to Mark Cuban, What Do They Really Think?
Everyone seems to be talking about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin now that it becomes hot. And everyone has an extreme opinion about it: they either love it or hate, but no one seems to ever be ambivalent about More...
Bitcoin Plummets After Hitting All Time High Breaking $30,000
The biggest Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, set a record high of $34,544.94 on Sunday. That amounts to a gain of more than $10,000 (almost 50%) in two weeks. The currency more than tripled its value since the start More...
Cryptocurrency Firm RippleNet Looking at SEC Lawsuit Over XRP
The SEC is planning a lawsuit against cryptocurrency firm RippleNet due to allegations that the company violated laws against selling unregistered securities when it sold cryptocurrency XRP to investors, reports More...
China’s Digital Yuan Can Now Be Spent
Chinese Yuan Unsplash With its digital Yuan China is now getting in on the cryptocurrency game. Its commercial website JD.com has become the first such platform to accept digital Yuan. While this is a clear step More...
Celsius Network Now Holds $2.2 Billion
Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, it has surpassed $2.2 billion worth of assets it holds under management. Founded in 2017 by Israelis S. Daniel Leon and Alex Mashinsky, Celsius More...
Israeli Startup Cybereason Discovered ‘EventBot’ Android Malware Targets Popular Banking Apps
Researchers at Israeli security startup Cybereason discovered a new type of mobile malware EventBot which masquerades as a legitimate Android app. EventBot abuses Android’s in-built features to steal users’ More...