🚗 VW accidentally leaks new name for its U.S. operations
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VW accidentally leaks new name for its U.S. operations: Voltswagen. Volkswagen accidentally posted a press release on its website a month early on Monday announcing a new name for its U.S. operations, Voltswagen of America, emphasizing the German automaker’s electric vehicle efforts. (Michael Wayland via CNBC)
PayPal will let US users pay with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin starting today. We already knew that PayPal was planning to support cryptocurrencies as a form of payment. And now, the online payment app announced US customers can do just that with its “Checkout with Crypto” feature, rolling out today. (Taylor Lyles via The Verge)
NBA Top Shot maker Dapper Labs just nabbed another $305 million investment from the likes of Michael Jordan and Will Smith. Dapper Labs, the startup behind virtual trading-card platform NBA Top Shot, has closed a $305 million funding round as the market for digital collectibles continues to boom, the company announced Tuesday. (Tim Levin via Business Insider)
As Covid-19 Vaccinations Ramp Up, Hesitancy Wanes. A shrinking percentage of Americans are expressing reluctance to get a Covid-19 vaccine, a positive sign for the efforts to get shots in the arms of enough people to reach herd immunity. (Randy Yeip via Wall Street Journal)
Big Oil's Secret World of Trading. It was a bleak moment for the oil industry. U.S. shale companies were failing by the dozen. Petrostates were on the brink of bankruptcy. Texas roughnecks and Kuwaiti princes alike had watched helplessly for months as the commodity that was their lifeblood tumbled to prices that had until recently seemed unthinkable. (Javier Blas via Bloomberg)
Everli, the European marketplace for online grocery shopping, bags $100M Series C. Everli, the European marketplace for online grocery shopping that started in Italy but now also operates in Poland, Czech Republic and France, has raised a $100 million in Series C funding. (Steve O'Hear via TechCrunch)
AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough. AT&T is lobbying against proposals to subsidize fiber-to-the-home deployment across the US, arguing that rural people don't need fiber and should be satisfied with Internet service that provides only 10Mbps upload speeds. (Jon Brodkin via Ars Technica)
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