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How China Is Clamping Down On Crypto Trading With Social Media

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News came this week that Jinse, an information service that is backed by Node Capital, was among the accounts impacted in the freeze. China’s National Fintech Risk Rectification Office sees the moves as “targeted clean-up measures to maintain financial order and social stability,” according to reports.

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Bitcoin Daily: S. Korea Eyes Crypto Capital Gains Tax; Crypto Lawyers See Rise In Demand

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Celebrities including Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled backed the project on social media. The company did not transact those swaps on a national registry, according to a press release. But both men later settled charges that they had failed to disclose what they had been paid for backing it. And, the U.S.

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India’s ShareChat Raises $100M In Twitter-Led Series D

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India’s social media platform ShareChat, which serves 60 million monthly users, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round, as reported on Thursday (Aug. The social media platform supported English when it first rolled out, which most users seemed to prefer. ShareChat declined to comment.

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ZeroFOX Notches $74M To Tackle Cyberattacks

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Cybersecurity firm ZeroFOX closed a $74 million funding round led by Intel Capital that will be used to advance cyberattack detection and remediation, VentureBeat reported on Thursday (Feb. Existing investors NEA, Highland Capital Partners, Redline Capital Management, Hercules Capital and Core Capital also participated in the funding round.

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GIACT: It’s Time To Fight Back Against Fraud

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Well-funded and organized fraud operations, meanwhile, continued to amass more capital, manpower and technology. That’s a recipe for negative reviews and frustrated feedback on social media. As a nation, we experienced loss and hardship. It’s time to fight back. Businesses across the U.S. Good people lost their jobs.

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Amazon Says UK SMBs Feeling The Benefits Of Tech

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Reports in Business Leader covered the SME Growth Tracker published last week, conducted quarterly by Capital Economics and commissioned by Amazon U.K. and Enterprise Nation. Small businesses also recorded an increase in use of third-party social media platforms for marketing purposes. Amazon U.K.

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Rethinking The SME Loan Underwriting Model In Southeast Asia

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Traditional banks will require credit histories and collateral to underwrite a small business loan, both of which many SMBs in Southeast Asian nations lack. It’s a self-perpetuating scenario that keeps barriers to capital in place. Asymmetric Information Exchange.

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