1/18/2024 4:24:36 PM Key members of Congress applaud the approval of Bitcoin ETF, call for investigation into SEC Twitter 'hack' By FinTech Collective Key Members of Congress applauded the SEC's approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF and called for an investigation into how the agency allowed...
1/10/2024 5:27:00 PM X: transforming the global town square By FinTech Collective X plans to launch peer-to-peer payments in 2024. The company stated this will unlock more user utility and new opportunities for...
7/24/2023 1:01:54 PM Twitter changes logo to X in corporate rebranding By Sarah Wolter The company plans to shift from being a text-focused platform to integrating more audio, video and payments features and is looking to...
4/25/2023 5:16:02 PM Twitter poses a risk to the financial system and helped fuel the SVB run, says first major study to investigate the topic By Sarah Wolter Professors from five different universities have released a study confirming that social media contributed to the run on Silicon Valley...
4/13/2023 3:45:55 PM Twitter partners with eToro to let users trade stocks, crypto as Musk pushes app into finance By Sarah Wolter Twitter, which is aiming to provide financial services under Elon Musk, will let its users trade stocks, cryptocurrencies and other...
4/3/2023 4:37:43 PM Elon Musk revives old banking dream in pursuing $250b Twitter valuation By Sarah Wolter Key to his effort, Musk has said, is putting the social-media company at the center of users’ financial lives, where Twitter users can...
11/10/2022 7:22:05 PM Elon Musk details his vision for a Twitter payments system By Sarah Wolter Elon Musk detailed his vision for Twitter’s plan to enter the payments market during a livestreamed meeting with Twitter advertisers,...
10/7/2022 1:33:41 PM Musk's "super app" vision By Sarah Wolter The concept of an "everything app" or a "super app" — which serves as a hub for multiple services within a single user interface — is...
10/7/2022 1:29:55 PM Elon Musk’s ‘everything app’ plan for Twitter rekindles dotcom dream By Sarah Wolter Since launching his original bid in April, Musk has said that owning Twitter is more about preserving the platform as an open venue for...
5/6/2022 12:12:44 PM Elon Musk secures $7.1b in new financing for Twitter By Sarah Wolter The equity commitments from 19 investors, including Larry Ellison, a Saudi Prince, a16z and Sequoia Capital come as Musk marshals capital...
11/30/2021 1:50:00 PM Jack Dorsey’s Twitter departure sets the stage for expanding his crypto influence By Sarah Wolter Dorsey has repeatedly said he believes “bitcoin will be the native currency of the internet” — and on Wall Street, he is one of its most...
11/19/2021 10:04:09 AM Twitter partners with S&P 500 on stock index that crowdsources public opinion By Sarah Wolter The S&P 500 Twitter Sentiment Index launched this week to measure public opinion of companies in the S&P 500 stock market index. Through...
9/23/2021 7:46:57 PM Twitter rolls out bitcoin tipping, safety features in product push By Sarah Wolter Twitter will now allow people to tip their favorite content creators with bitcoin and will also launch a fund to pay some users who host...
3/17/2021 2:25:47 PM Teen ‘mastermind’ behind the great Twitter hack sentenced to three years in prison By Sarah Wolter The hack took place on July 15th, 2020, and it quickly became one of the most fraught cybersecurity incidents in Twitter’s history, as...
3/8/2021 11:54:59 PM Jack Dorsey is offering to sell the first tweet as an NFT and the highest bid is $2.5m By Sarah Wolter The Twitter CEO shared a link Friday afternoon to a platform called “Valuables,” where his March 21, 2006 tweet “just setting up my...
3/25/2015 10:58:47 PM Stripe's new product helps marketplaces go global quickly By FinTech Collective Stripe launched a new product, Stripe Connect, this week. The major API update will enable marketplaces to expand into a new region and...