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AWS outage: Amazon says recovery is underway Tech A swathe of apps and online services went down on Monday morning, including Zoom, Slack and Coinbase. This follows a global Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, with knock on effects hitting millions of users of thousands of apps and websites. Amazon has said that services are “seeing significant signs of recovery”, with Lloyds Bank saying [...]
Exclusive: Coinbase to ‘hire like crazy’ in the UK Tech Coinbase is ramping up its UK presence with plans to hire more staff and deepen investment, as the country moves towards a new era of crypto regulation and increasing mainstream adoption. “We’re going to be hiring like crazy in the UK”, Coinbase’s UK lead Keith Grose told City AM, before adding that London will continue [...]
Crypto deals in sport up 20 per cent to over £400m Sport Business Sponsorship of sports organisations by crypto brands has increased by 20 per cent to over £400m with football driving new business, new research shows. The $565m spent by the blockchain-anchored organisations in the past season is closing in on the 2022-23 peak, when $685m was spent (£508m), according to SportQuake data. Nearly two thirds – [...]
Are cyber attacks about to become the norm for British retailers? May 20, 2025 In the last month, cyber attacks have gone from a destructive but uncommon issue to the top of most Brit’s news feeds. Marks and Spencer’s, Co-op, Harrods – plus the international Dior and Coinbase – have all been the target of attacks in the last months, with more unsuccessful or smaller attacks likely to have [...]
Cyber attack: Coinbase warns of $400m hit after data breach May 15, 2025 Crypto exchange Coinbase has disclosed a significant cyber attack that could cost the company between $180m (£135m) and $400m (£300m), after hackers breached account data belonging to a “small subset” of its users. The news sent shares down three per cent in pre-market trading on Thursday. Coinbase said it received an email from an unknown [...]
Enhanced Games: Trump invests in ‘doped Olympics’ February 13, 2025 The Enhanced Games, a drug inclusive alternative to the Olympics, has bagged Trump family funding as 1789 Capital leads a new funding round. The venture fund is led by investment bank Farvahar Partners CEO Omeed Malik, vice president JD Vance ally Christopher Buskirk – they co-founded The Rockbridge Network together – and the 47th President’s [...]
FCA makes first crypto-related sting against Coinbase subsidiary July 25, 2024 Crypto company CB Payments Limited (CBPL) has been slapped with a £3.5m fine after the Financial Conduct Authority made its first ever crypto sting.
Coinbase rally continues after crytpo platform demolishes analyst expectations February 16, 2024 Shares in crypto platform Coinbase have continued to rise in after hours trading after it announced its first quarterly profit since 2021.