If you follow the world of tech billionaires,you’ll find a baffling mix of climate denial,COVID-19 vaccine denial and cryptocurrency cultism.
Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey claims India said it would shut down the social network site unless it complied with orders to restrict certain accounts.
It’s been a rocky ride for investors since Afterpay’s owner,US fintech giant Block,arrived on Australia’s sharemarket via a dual-listing last year.
First,smartphones were transformed into digital wallets,now technology giants and banks want to turn phones into devices that can receive payments as well.
Jack Dorsey was among those to pay tribute to 43-year-old Bob Lee,who created CashApp and helped develop Android while he was a software engineer for Google.
ASX-listed shares of Afterpay-owner Block plunged more than 20 per cent on Friday after a report from short seller Hindenburg Research alleged the fintech facilitated fraudsters and other criminal activity.
Fintechs may be falling out of fashion,but Afterpay’s owner says it has “unique” advantages when it comes to taking on banks.
After years spent improving the cyber defences of the White House and technology giants,Peiter Zatko has been thrust into the centre of Elon Musk’s takeover battle for Twitter.
Lawyers have issued more than 100 subpoenas in the rancorous,knock-down,drag-out tech spectacle of the year:the fight between Twitter and Elon Musk,the world’s richest man.
Elon Musk has subpoenaed Jack Dorsey,co-founder of Twitter and his longtime friend,in his defence against Twitter’s lawsuit.
The billionaire co-founder of Twitter and fintech Block says Afterpay will form a central part of a financial “super app” he is developing.