Finance Minister Katy Gallagher concedes Australia is facing economic challenges, after warnings the global economy risks a toxic mix of low growth and high inflation, also known as stagflation. The Bank for International Settlements says the past year has been shaped by two powerful forces – the COVID-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “This combination […]
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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Just as one company’s success shouldn’t cast a halo on its vertical’s brethren, one company’s layoffs don’t quite mean that its competitors are equally screwed. Instead, I think that changes within a
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Women are hugely under-represented within all aspects of the financial services industry, including fintech. Why is the financial sector still failing to attract talented women in 2022? According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), less than 2% of financial institutions’ CEOs are women, and for board members the figure is less than 20% executive. Why
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Can you work in the Metaverse? The Metaverse is the next big career path on which to land an ideal job with firms like Meta, Roblox, Microsoft, OpenSea, The Sandbox (SAND), and the many others constructing it. So, if you want to know how to land a job in the Metaverse, you need to be
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Big Brother is listening. Companies use “bossware” to listen to their employees when they’re near their computers. Multiple “spyware” apps can record phone calls. And home devices such as Amazon’s Echo can record everyday conversations. A new technology, called Neural Voice Camouflage, now offers a defense. It generates custom audio noise in the background as
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Contrary to popular belief, Nayib Bukele isn’t completely off the pace. The youthful, handsome and hipster president of El Salvador — who sports a close-cropped beard and gets about in baseball caps turned backwards — has copped a great deal of flak from global authorities and raised eyebrows even amongst his neighbors. As the first
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World Bank President David Malpass said Sunday that the world economy is undergoing a “sharp slowdown” due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and warned it will be difficult for some countries to avoid recession. “We’ve seen the world growth fall by half since January, in terms of GDP growth,” Malpass said in an interview on
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Edive, an ed-tech startup based in Bangladesh, has recently raised USD 50,000 in pre-seed investment. 4 Bangladeshi technology investors with a collective experience of 20 years in the industry, led the investment round. The investors are: Tanvir Ahmed, It Business Consultant, Edmonton, Canada; Mohammad Ibrahim, Computer Engineer, ADNOC Offshore, UAE; Muhammad Mainul Hossain, CEO, TechOptions;
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Lido Finance [LDO], via a Twitter threadinformed community members of the performance of the DeFi Protocol between 17 June and 24 June. According to the thread, Lido recorded a 13% uptick in its Total Value Locked (TVL) within the period in consideration, thus bringing its TVL to $5.22 billion. However, as the rest of the
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Today, the ideas described are becoming more popular, and they may all be summed up in a single term – web3.0. This allowed us to develop games featuring the idea of play to earn (play and win). They have already started merging game with real-world ones, and players are now earning actual money while in
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