50 Cent was reportedly hacked by someone shilling a random cryptocurrency. That person apparently made a fair bit of money.
Sir Jack A Lot returns with a startup for retail traders
When former YouTube product manager Kevin Xu, known as “Sir Jack A Lot” on Reddit, turned $35,000 into $8 million trading stocks between 2020 and 2022, many people […]
Brex’s compliance head has left the fintech startup to join Andreessen Horowitz as a partner
Ali Rathod-Papier has stepped down from her role as global head of compliance at corporate card expense management startup Brex to join venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) as […]
Kenya closes its probe of Worldcoin, opening the door to a relaunch of its orbs after a year-long suspension
Worldcoin — the crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman — has been given the green light to resume iris-scanning and other operations in Kenya after a year-long […]
Elon Musk’s X revenue has officially plummeted, new documents show
X is planning to launch a payment services system in hopes that it helps to remedy the company’s revenue-loss woes.
Rippling’s tender offer decision draws mixed — and strong — reactions
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Rippling’s controversial decision to ban some former employees from selling their stock, Carta’s massive valuation drop, a GenZ-focused fintech […]
How Urvashi Barooah broke into venture after everyone told her she couldn’t
When Urvashi Barooah applied to MBA programs in 2015, she focused her applications around her dream of becoming a venture capitalist. She got rejected from every school, and […]
Disney hacked, apparently by angry Club Penguin fans
Club Penguin fans appear to have hacked Disney and stolen internal company data.
Hulk Hogan warns followers about crypto token, implies he was hacked
Hulk Hogan has said that a memecoin promoted by his official X (formerly Twitter) account was nothing to do with him.