January 2021 – Page 2

Ninjas in Pyjamas rebrands, BIG becomes BLAST Premier Member Team | ESI Digest #27

Each week, ESI Digest breaks down the weekly happenings in the esports industry, making sense of things so you don’t have to. As well as being housed on YouTube, ESI…

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Blockchain

Bitcoin SV hits new record of 9,000 TPS – says miners must ’embrace Bitcoin at enterprise scale’

Bitcoin SV’s (BSV) scaling test network (STN) processed more than 9,000 transactions per second (TPS) this week, the company announced – a new record. Yet the cryptocurrency arbiter noted that…

lecrab 29 January 2021

eSports

LEC names Trovo official broadcast partner

Riot Games has announced that live streaming platform Trovo will continue to be an official broadcaster of the League of Legends European Championship (LEC) for its 2021 Spring Season. Trovo was…

lecrab 29 January 2021

eSports

Mobile Premier League raises $500K through employee investments

Indian esports and mobile gaming platform Mobile Premier League (MPL) announced yesterday that it has raised $500,000 (£364,200) as part of its Employee Investment Plan. MPL launched the investment plan,…

lecrab 29 January 2021

Technology News

Stock trading app Trade Republic expands to France

German startup Trade Republic is rolling out its app and service in France this week. This is a significant expansion move as Trade Republic has only been available in Germany…

lecrab 29 January 2021

Technology News

Huawei’s struggles hurt overall smartphone shipments in China, but rivals like Apple found new opportunities

The impact of United States government sanctions on Huawei is continuing to hurt the company and dampen overall smartphone shipments in China, where it is the largest smartphone vendor, according…

lecrab 29 January 2021

Technology News

Hong Kong startup ICW eyes supply chain diversification demand amid trade war

For American importers, finding suppliers these days can be challenging not only due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. The U.S. government’s entity list designations, human rights-related sanctions, among other trade blacklists…

lecrab 29 January 2021

Technology News

Why calendar invites are worth $3B

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace hopped online for our weekly show, sans Gamestop news (which you can…

lecrab 28 January 2021

Technology News

Daily Crunch: Robinhood restricts GameStop trading

The GameStop stock saga continues, Apple releases more details about its privacy changes and Qualtrics goes public. This is your Daily Crunch for January 28, 2021. The big story: Robinhood…

lecrab 28 January 2021

Technology News

SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech

Brian Walsh Contributor Share on Twitter Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures, the venture capital arm of COPEC, a leading energy company in Central and South America and…

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