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Businesses hurry with AI approach. How to team build for $1B startups. 53% of Canadians near insolvency. Spotify quiet about voice command. Amazon beats back the union push. Advice: So you want to raise funds? A look inside the anti-vax playbook. Market Moving Headline: The S&P 500 closed above $4,100 for the first time as investors looked to price in an economic “‘Goldilocks moment’—fast, sustained growth alongside inflation and interest rates that drift slowly upward.” Key Takeaways...

Stimulus to cause excess leverage? GM idles more plants on shortages. A story on the cult of CryptoPunks. Patreon raised $155M in financing. Keys to success, the next big thing. Market Moving Headline: In the aftermath of the Archegos blow-up, the biggest nightmare on Wall Street [] is that (many) more Archegos-style, highly levered "family office" blow-ups are waiting just around the corner. Well, in a transaction after the close that is sure to spark much-heated controversy tonight and tomor...

Quote To Start The Day: If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. Source: Steve Jobs One Big Thing In Fintech: JPMorgan issued ...

“Wall Street — it’s a fallacy to think it’s hard.” Thats according to Saad Hussain, founder, and CEO at Vesica Technologies, the company behind SHIFT, a search engine for the options market. As part of Vesica’s launch of SHIFT and the closure of a $2.1 million seed round led by Mercury Digital Assets and Miami International Holdings, Hussain spoke with Benzinga on how his organization is making financial data more accessible and actionable, for all market participants.

Zeller raises $25M in an AUD Series A. NEM launches Symbol blockchain tech. Fintechs, banks team on green finance. Tencent loses $62B in a stock fire sale. BoA to compete with emerging fintechs. M1 launches Community Pies features. Robinhood doubles recruiting capability. DBS finished trade on Ant’s blockchain. Genesis raises $45M to expand fintech. Blend in agreement to acquire Title365. GlobeBox secured $3M in new funding. Honeycomb Credit raises $1.75M seed. CryptoUK trade body raising con...

Quote To Start The Day: Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. Source: Tim Ferriss One Big Thing In Fintech: A provisional report from ...

Workhorse loses deal and getting sued. Companies use Clubhouse for earnings. Dropbox to acquire DocSend for $165M. TechCrunch talks about memes for sale. Real Estate: Post-pandemic investment. Top tech trends to watch closely in 2021. Market Moving Headline: Growth versus value worst month since 2000. What does that portend? For equity bulls, they better hope it’s different this time. In the mid/late 1990s new technologies proliferated and changed the way the world worked. In hindsight, ther...

Law firms’ battle for PE market growth. UWM CEO talked about stock volatility. Lawmaker says Cuomo should resign. State Of Mobility: Trends, Investments. Big tech critic joins Biden White House. Coursera files to go public after growth. Tesla plans to launch a social platform. John McAfee indicted over ICO frauds. Market Moving Headline: Key Takeaways: - COVID-19 vaccination timeline is sped up. - Equities are recipients of $12B in inflows. - Treasury yields aren’t at worrisome levels. - VI...

Quote To Start The Day: “Democracy is never a gift from heaven. It must be earned by many with strong will.” Source: Jimmy Sham One Big Thing In ...

Quote To Start The Day: “The time to settlement equals counterparty risk, which can become elevated during market shocks. It can also lead to the need ...