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Creator of App for Remittances to Africa and Asia Raises $65 Million in Series B Round
26.12.2021
Tap Send, the creator of a remittances app of the same name, revealed it has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round. The fintech firm plans to use the funds to build a cheaper and faster cross-border money transfer platform. Remittances to Overlooked Countries The fintech startup behind...
Baidu metaverse app would take 6 years for a full launch, VP says
24.12.2021
Baidu’s metaverse app will not support digital currencies or NFTs despite its focus on digital infrastructure, VP said
Build Great Apps: Designer and Developer Collaboration Just Got Easier
20.12.2021
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We’re going to go over details on how designer ↔️ developer collaboration in AWS Amplify Studio can make app building easier, but let’s cover one of those things right at the top here.
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HTML Sanitizer API
16.12.2021
Three cheers for (draft stage) progress on a Sanitizer API! It’s gospel that you can’t trust user input. And indeed, any app I’ve ever worked on has dealt with bad actors trying to slip in and execute nefarious code …
Block's Cash App to Allow its 40M Customers to Gift Bitcoin
15.12.2021
Jack Dorsey's payment firm Block, previously called Square, has unveiled a new Cash App feature that will allow users to gift family and friends crypto and stock over the holiday season.
Cash App announced the news on Tuesday, saying that its approximately 40 million active monthly users...
Block, formerly Square, will allow users to gift BTC for the holidays using Cash App
15.12.2021
"It’s as easy as sending cash, and you don't need to own stock or Bitcoin to gift it," said Cash App, allowing transfers as low as $1
Hololoot Celebrates an Overwhelmingly Successful Public Sale and Decentralized Listing
14.12.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Hololoot is the market-leading AR NFT generator, marketplace and metaverse designed for widespread adoption. Built by AR industry veterans, Hololoot combines the latest developments in 3D modeling with the unique properties of NFTs to produce an app that is simultaneously powerful...
Mintable app to support minting NFTs on the layer 2 Immutable X protocol
14.12.2021
By integrating Immutable X's technology into its marketplace, Mintable hopes to tackle gas and scaling limitations for NFT traders
Robinhood Turns to Chainalysis to Boost Compliance Ahead of Crypto Wallet Launch
13.12.2021
Popular trading platform Robinhood has partnered with blockchain data platform Chainalysis to meet compliance requirements. Robinhood is preparing to launch its wallet, which has a waitlist of more than 1.6 million users. Robinhood Partners With Chainalysis for Compliance Blockchain data analytics...
File Scaffolding With Hygen
13.12.2021
I read a recent Smashing Magazine post that included a recommendation for Hygen. I just happen to be doing quite a bit of new UI work in a Next.js app and the amount of manual folder/file scaffolding I was …
Ship a Full-Stack App in Days with AWS Amplify Studio
13.12.2021
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Amazon has a vision with AWS Amplify. First, a premise:
As browsers have become faster and more powerful over the last decade, front-end developers are building web apps that are more feature-rich and …
Kenya Based Fintech Kwara Raises $4 Million in Seed Round
13.12.2021
A Kenya based fintech, Kwara has raised $4 million in a seed round that was led by Breega VC firm. The funds will be used to create an app that allows members of credit unions to access financial services. The Rising Demand for Financial Services by Credit Union Members Kwara, a Kenyan fintech that...
Why would a business push a native app over a website?
10.12.2021
I wanted to write down what I think the reasons are here in December of 2021 so that we might revisit it from time to time in the future and see if these reasons are still relevant. I’m a web …
Alameda Research leads $35M fund raise for crypto trading app Stacked
6.12.2021
Launched in April 2020, Stacked is a web-based app allowing users to access trading strategies via pre-built stacks
Binance Names Three Nigerian Reality TV Show Celebrities as African Ambassadors
4.12.2021
Binance has named three former housemates from the popular Nigerian reality television show “Big Brother Naija” as the cryptocurrency exchange’s brand ambassadors for the African continent. Bringing Crypto to the Mainstream Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has said...
App Store Awards 2021. Toto jsou nejlepší aplikace a hry pro iPhone a iPad podle Applu
3.12.2021
Payments Company Square Rebrands to ‘Block Inc.,’ Crypto Service Will Be Called ‘Spiral’
2.12.2021
Following Jack Dorsey’s resignation announcement on Monday, two days later Dorsey’s payments company, Square Inc., disclosed that it was rebranding and changing its name to Block Inc. The company said the name Block has “many associated meanings” including the term...
Diagonal Stripes Wipe Animation
30.11.2021
I was playing this game on Apple Arcade the other day called wurdweb. It’s a fun little game! Little touches like the little shape dudes that walk around the screen (but otherwise don’t do anything) give it a lot …
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AMC and Sony to Gift NFTs to ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Advance Opening Ticket Buyers
30.11.2021
The theatre chain AMC and Sony Pictures are offering NFT’s as a present for early buyers of tickets for the “Spider-Man: No Way Home” movie premiere. These tickets (and the opportunity to reclaim the gift NFTs) will only be available for users of AMC’s different...
Francie zakázala Wish, aplikace už není v App Store nebo Bingu, má zmizet i z Googlu
29.11.2021
Kontroverzní nákupní služba Wish ve Francii narazila. Na základě příkazu tamních úřadů ji ze svého obchodu s aplikacemi vyřadil Apple a neobjevuje se ani ve vyhledávači Bing od Microsoftu. Informoval o tom web francouzské rozhlasové sítě RTL. Google podle zprávy na odstranění z výsledků vyhledávání...