Fintech giant Stripe has acquired stablecoin platform Bridge for $1.1 billion, according to TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. This makes it Stripe’s largest acquisition ever, and the most ...

Update (Oct. 21 at 3:13 am UTC): Sources at Stripe say the deal hasn’t gone through but would not go on record. Update (Oct. 21 at 10:45 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include new ...

Payments giant Stripe has acquired the stablecoin platform Bridge, with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison confirming the deal in a tweet Monday. The confirmation follows initial reports last week about a ...

Stripe cofounder John Collison has overseen the fintech giant's reentry to the crypto space. Update: This story has been updated on October 21 after Stripe’s and Bridge’s CEOs confirmed the ...

The report includes an in-depth case study on Afghanistan, where 5.3 million more people fell into multidimensional poverty during the turbulent period 2015/16–2022/23. In 2022/23, nearly two-thirds ...

More than one billion people live in acute poverty, with nearly half of them in countries experiencing conflict, according to a new United Nations report. Countries at war have higher levels of ...

The First Descendant players were welcomed to a new season and a new Ultimate Descendant storyline earlier this month in October. The patch brought loads of content including some new modules ...

KP.3.1.1 is still the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States as it accounts for nearly 60% of positive cases, but the XEC variant is not far behind, recent Centers for Disease Control and ...