All posts tagged "featured"

• Finance

  CEOs of Wall Street giants including Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and BlackRock condemn the US capital rioters: ‘An assault on our nation’

  Major figures from across Wall Street firms have spoken out about the violence that erupted at the US Capitol Wednesday. CEOs of...

• Tech

  Mambu raises $122M at a $2B+ valuation for a SaaS platform that powers banking services

  Challenger banks, incumbent banks, and all of the many businesses that are making inroads into any kind of banking service all have...

• Tech

  US says India, Italy, and Turkey digital taxes are discriminatory, but won’t take any actions for now

  Digital services taxes adopted by India, Italy, and Turkey in the past years discriminate against U.S. companies, the U.S. Trade Representative said...

• Tech

  Snapchat locks President Donald Trump’s account

  Snapchat locked President Donald Trump’s account after pro-Trump rioters stormed the United States Capitol. A Snap spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the...

• Tech

  State Department reportedly orders diplomats to stop posting on social media after U.S. Capitol riots

  The State Department ordered diplomats to stop posting on social media after pro-Trump rioters stormed the United States Capitol, reports CNN, citing...

• Tech

  VCs dispense with niceties during Capitol riots: “Never talk to me again”

  It was hard not to feel emotional today, as the world watched for more than four hours as rioters stormed into and...

• Finance

  Blackstone CEO and longtime Trump ally Stephen Schwarzman says he is ‘shocked and horrified’ by the ‘insurrection’ that followed the president’s speech, calls for a peaceful transition (BX)

  Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman slammed the violence in Washington, DC, that followed Trump’s speech on Wednesday, calling it an “insurrection.” “I am...

• Finance

  Horrified by Trump supporters storming the US Capitol, VCs are calling on others to stop doing deals with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner

  As the Capital came under siege on Wednesday, many VCs took to Twitter to express their outrage. Some went even further and...

• Tech

  Facebook and Instagram block #StormTheCapitol, lock Trump out of posting for 24 hours

  After removing a video in which President Trump praised a violent group of his supporters who broke into the U.S. Capitol building,...

• Tech

  Social media allowed a shocked nation to watch a coup attempt in real time

  Today’s historic and terrifying coup attempt by pro-Trump extremists in Washington, D.C. played out live the same way it was fomented —...