I believe Bitcoin will get to at least $500,000 in this current bull cycle March 23, 2021 Trading wizard Dr Chris Kacher believes Bitcoin will get to at least $500,000 in this current bull cycle.
As China signs the final death warrant for Hong Kong’s democracy, there must global condemnation March 9, 2021 This week, China sounded the final death knell for Hong Kong’s democratic aspirations. New proposals which significantly reduce the number of democratically elected seats, to be signed-off later in the week by China’s rubber-stamp parliament, mark the onset of full-blown totalitarianism. Commenting on the proposed reforms, Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, [...]
Tech billionaires’ privacy brawl: Facebook’s defence of its darkest arts defies belief March 5, 2021 Facebook’s new advertisement – “Good Ideas Deserve To Be Found” – is a study in audacity, in which the company wraps its darkest arts in a cloak of moral purity. Facebook tracks its users’ behaviour, not only on its own apps but all across the web. What it learns about you in the process, it [...]
Shamima Begum made her choice and shouldn’t be given a path back to UK March 1, 2021 It is not often that a British court decision makes the news for the right reasons. So used are we to judgements that fly in the face of what appears obvious to any non-legal mind, that when the opposite happens it is often met with incredulity. Yet last week, the UK Supreme Court astonished many [...]
City Spirits: Japanese whiskymakers bid sayonara to imposters February 26, 2021 With a light now flickering at the end of our locked-down tunnel, thoughts have turned to travel – hardly surprising after being trapped in front of Netflix for what feels like centuries. Where to next? One movie in particular has begun to whet our appetite: the darkly comic Lost in Translation. From the sofa you [...]
Atom Bank taps investors for cash as it targets IPO February 25, 2021 Digital challenger Atom Bank is looking to raise £40m from existing investors as it targets an IPO in the next few years. The neobank Atom is confident it will move to profitability from its mortgage and business lending “within a year”. The optimism contrasts with its fintech peers which have faced difficulties since the outbreak [...]
Exclusive: Purity Hemp CEO on the UK’s fast-growing medical cannabis market February 24, 2021 After losing his sister to cancer and his best man to an opioid addiction, Canada-born, London-based Michael Walker felt he should explore alternative healthcare options so not to rely on Big Pharma. The former head of marketing at Heathrow Express left the advertising industry in 2016 to set up his own company, the Purity Wellness [...]
Facebook reverses Australia news ban after law changes February 23, 2021 Facebook has backed down in its feud with Australia after negotiating changes to a new law that will force tech firms to pay publishers for news. The social media giant last week blocked access to news in the country in protest at the upcoming legislation, drawing widespread criticism. But following talks between the government and [...]
Bitcoin price tests $50,000 high as corporate adoption boosts legitimacy February 15, 2021 CryptoCompare data shows the price of Bitcoin (BTC) moved from around $39,000 to test a new all-time high near the psychological $50,000 mark. It has since correctly slightly to trade at $47,500 at press time. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, started the week near $1,700 and moved up to a new all-time [...]
Screenshot: Should online harms laws take on the hackers and pirates? February 12, 2021 This week **Media Moment of the Week: Ya boi in Hanoi **Who’s taking on the online hackers and pirates? **Will Big Tech finally cough up for news? Media Moment of the Week: Ya boi in Hanoi Tempted as I was to feature *that* cat lawyer this week, I think perhaps, to borrow Michael Gove’s words, [...]