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Apple ‘Tap to Pay on iPhone’ being tested in Apple Park visitor center

Back in February Apple announced an upcoming “Tap to Pay on iPhone” feature that allows compatible iPhones to accept contactless payments without the need for additional hardware. Apple is now testing the feature at its Apple Park Visitor Center in Cupertino, California.

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·4 years ago

Etisalat (e&) takes 9.8% stake in Vodafone for US$4.4 billion

e& (formerly Etisalat) has bought 2.8bn Vodafone shares for around $4.4bn, becoming the company's biggest shareholder

Vodafone UK News Financial

·4 years ago

Elon Musk puts $44bn Twitter acquisition on hold

ELON Musk has said his deal to buy Twitter is “temporarily on hold” over details around the number of spam and fake accounts present on the site.

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·4 years ago

Lighthouse raises $7m seed round to be the search engine for the Metaverse

Web 3 start-up Lighthouse has raised a $7 million seed round to build out “the search engine of the open metaverse.”

Crypto MetaVerse News Financial

·4 years ago

Bored Ape virtual land sale raises around $285 million clogging up Ethereum

The company behind the "Bored Ape" series of NFTs has raised around $285 million worth of cryptocurrency by selling tokens which represent land in a virtual world game it says it is building.

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·4 years ago

UNC Utility NFT Coin now available to trade across Bitmart

Utility NFT Coin (UNC) has made its primary listing on bitmart and is now available to trade on the platform. Within 24 hours of the new and updated contract listing, UNC is expected to be the top gainer on Bitmart

News Financial NFT

·4 years ago

Apple reports revenue record of $97.3 billion

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2022 second quarter ended March 26, 2022, posting a March quarter revenue record of $97.3 billion, up 9 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.52.

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·4 years ago

Decentral Life Launches New Digital Wallet and Payment Platform

Social Life Network and Decentral Life, a Social Life Network has launched a new SaaS platform for private and public companies that aim to utilize blockchain tokenization as a governance tool or utility token.

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·4 years ago

BlackBerry to Host Retail Investor Focused Live Q&A

BlackBerry is to host an investor event titled 'BlackBerry Retail Investor Focused Live Q&A' on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 3:00pm.

Financial BlackBerry

·4 years ago

Twitter agrees to $44bn purchase by Elon Musk

The board of Twitter has agreed to a $44bn (£34.5bn) takeover offer from Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Twitter has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk

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·4 years ago

Standard Chartered acquires land in the Metaverse

UK investment bank Standard Chartered has acquired a plot of virtual land at The Sandbox metaverse’s Mega City district.

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·4 years ago

Coinbase launches NFT marketplace Beta

Coinbase's NFT marketplace has launched in beta for select customers. The beta NFT marketplace is accessible to everyone to view from today, but initially only select users will be able to buy or sell.

Financial NFT

·4 years ago

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