Pro.com CEO Matt Williams. (Pro.com Photo) Pro.com — the Seattle startup that aims to transform the general contractor industry — had a pretty good 2018, and 2019 could be even bigger with expansion on the horizon and the potential of an interesting pilot partnership with the company’s newest investor Redfin. Pro.com has more than doubled[…]
International cryptocurrency payroll service provider Bitwage has announced that it has partnered with Texas-based Simply Efficient HR. The move will allow companies to pay W2 employee and payroll taxes in all 50 U.S. states, plus Puerto Rico, using BTC and ETH. Also Read: Bitpay Reports Processing Over $1 Billion Transactions in 2018 Bitwage and Simply[…]
Verizon says it is going to waive its new text message fees for a popular education app, after teachers and parents spoke out. However, the app company is skeptical that the telecom giant will follow through. As Motherboard reported Monday, educators have been calling Verizon out on Twitter after they learned that Remind—a communication app[…]
London-based What3words has attracted a sizeable investment from Sony’s Innovation Fund, the addressing system startup announced.Read More
As the maxim goes, bear markets are good for building out cryptocurrency infrastructure – or “buidling” as the meme of the meme goes. Thursday’s installment of The Daily is rich in examples of the sort of development work being undertaken across the industry. From dapp trackers to virtual worlds, there’s a little bit of everything[…]
On Monday, Gillette debuted a new ad campaigning calling out toxic masculinity and encouraging their customers to do more to fight it. This ad evidently made a lot of people (mostly men) angry, and they are now calling for a boycott of Gillette products. But while a well-intentioned ad is a silly reason to stop[…]
(GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy) Niantic, the Google spinout that made the smash hit game Pokémon Go, has raised $245 million to continue building out the engine that powers its growing suite of augmented reality games. The round gives Niantic a valuation of roughly $4 billion, a little more than three years after spinning out[…]
Digital games grew 12 percent to $109.8 billion worldwide in 2018, driven by Epic Games’ huge free-to-play battle royale game Fortnite.Read More
European and British investors looking for a gateway to covert their fiat into cryptocurrency have just gotten another venue to trade on. Popular digital exchange Binance has launched a euro and pound fiat-to-crypto trading platform in the British Crown dependency of Jersey. Also Read: The Daily: New Platform to Offer Tokenized Securities, Ledgerx Launches Volatility[…]
In today’s chatter report, Chris Pacia reveals his BCH transaction using Avalanche on regtest finalized in just 185.822377 milliseconds. Also, Changpeng Zhao advocates storing crypto on reputable exchanges while Jesse Powell advises his followers to store crypto on hardware wallets. Lastly, Eric Wall proposes targeting children to spread crypto adoption. Also Read: Jason Cox Extends Open[…]