Polygon Labs Bolsters Stablecoin Payments Push, Acquiring Coinme and Sequence
Polygon Labs signaled that it’s becoming a regulated payments company by acquiring Coinme and Sequence for a combined $250 million....
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Polygon Labs signaled that it’s becoming a regulated payments company by acquiring Coinme and Sequence for a combined $250 million....
Meta has made the decision to discontinue Workrooms as a standalone app Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Meta is switching off Horizon Workrooms as a stand-alone...
Around 10 percent of Meta's Reality Labs division, which develops its XR products and services, will be laid off beginning on Tuesday, as reported by Bloomberg . Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton confir...
The roughly 1,000 job cuts in Reality Labs come as Meta reallocates resources from the metaverse to AI wearables and mobile products....
Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron told Cointelegraph that the acquisitions position the network as a regulated payments platform built to move stablecoins onchain at scale....
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The financial services firm lays out a pretty straightforward bull case for Bitcoin as it matures—will it come to fruition?...
Meta is laying off around 10% of staff at its Reality Labs division as part of sweeping cuts set to affect more than 1,000 people. This includes the closure of a number of VR-first studios, such as Tw...
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed new laws creating licensed crypto exchanges and giving the central bank authority to approve tradable coins....
Las Vegas saw a decline in visitors last year. Westend61/Getty Images Crazy Horse 3 in Vegas said it's seen a 55% increase in dancer auditions, including first-timers. Las Vegas tourism declined last ...
Marvel’s Deadpool VR. Meta is laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs metaverse division, and the cuts apparently include closing down some of its VR gaming studios. It "appears" Twisted Pixel...
Sam Slater says he wants to raise his children in Massachusetts, despite paying the millionaire's tax. Sam Slater California's proposed wealth tax is sparking debate among billionaires across the stat...
Palmer Luckey says Meta's VR layoffs cut bloated in-house game studios that were quietly undermining the industry's ecosystem. David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile via Getty Images Oculus founder Palmer Luckey...
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Amazon is playing catch-up to Walmart in groceries. Some of Amazon's new ideas mirror Walmart's strategies. Amazon plans to double down on its sub-same-day grocery deliv...
A star that may have ripped apart a planet, according to researchers REUTERS/NASA/Handout A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly Tech Memo n...
The cities building the most homes rely more heavily on immigrant labor. Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times The cities that build and remodel the most homes rely the most heavily on immigrant worker...
Verizon was down for tens of thousands of customers for most of the day on January 14, 2026. Paul Squire/Business Insider Over 170,000 Verizon customers reported a service outage on Wednesday. The out...
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has gone all in on private markets Ben Whitley/PA Images via Getty Images BlackRock hit $14 trillion in assets after bringing in close to $700 billion in net inflows in 2025. ...
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Andreessen Horowitz partner Alex Rampell said he likes founders with a chip on their shoulder. Charles Eshelman/Getty Images for AOL A16z general partner Alex Rampell said founders need to materialize...