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Twitter laid off most of its workers in Africa last year. They say they’ve been ignored and left without severance

Former Twitter employees in Ghana, who were laid off in November, have been left without severance pay and have not…

Ripple says U.S. banks will want to use XRP cryptocurrency after partial victory in SEC fight

Blockchain startup Ripple is confident U.S. banks and other financial institutions in the country will start showing interest in adopting…

Tucker Carlson’s show on Twitter makes ad deal with anti-ESG shopping app

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s new Twitter show has landed one of its first advertisers. Carlson agreed to a…

Elon Musk says Twitter cash flow is negative due to ad revenue declines, ‘heavy debt’

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who is also CTO and executive chairman of Twitter, said early Saturday morning that…

Will Smith-backed U.S. broker Public launches in the UK in first foray overseas

American stock brokerage startup Public launched its services in the U.K. Thursday, marking its first international expansion its launch in…

Wise shares spike 16% as higher interest rates help fintech triple profits

Online money transfer firm Wise’s shares soared 16% Tuesday as the company reported a spike in profits thanks to rising…

Biden announces $42 billion high-speed internet initiative

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is kicking off a more than $42 billion plan to give every American household access…

Bitcoin is up 12% this month — even though barely anybody is trading it

Bitcoin has rallied sharply this month — but not for reasons you might think. The world’s largest digital currency has…

Check out this $110 million tech campus being built in Lithuania — the largest in Europe

Lithuania is building a huge tech campus — Europe’s largest — in the capital of Vilnius, as it looks to…