Apiture and Candescent emerge as nimble challengers while legacy core providers sharpen small business focus SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Javelin Strategy & Research today released its 2025 Small Business Digital Banking Vendor Scorecard, the industry’s most comprehensive benchmark of small business digital banking platforms. Evaluating leading vendors on more than 350
TOKYO, Aug. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MEDIROM Healthcare Technologies Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Kouji Eguchi; NASDAQ: MRM) (the “Company”, “we” or “us”), which operates a diversified healthcare business, announced its participation in “World,” a “proof of human” protocol co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania. The purpose of this project is to build
Acquires ETH as part of financial strategy TOKYO, Aug. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MEDIROM Healthcare Technologies Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Kouji Eguchi; NASDAQ: MRM) (the “Company”, “we” or “us”), which operates a diversified healthcare business, announced its participation in “World,” a “proof of human” protocol co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania. The
08/22 update below. This post was originally published on August 21 Bitcoin has plummeted since hitting an all-time high of $124,000 per bitcoin earlier this month, dropping around 10% as a controversial new memecoin hits the market. Sign up now for CryptoCodex—A free newsletter for the crypto-curious The bitcoin price surged though the first half
Tokenization, the process of converting real-world financial instruments, equities, bonds, commodities, real estate, and structured products, into blockchain-based tokens, is no longer a distant concept. Each token represents a claim on the underlying asset, making it tradable and programmable in ways traditional systems could never achieve. Its promise rests on three pillars: Efficiency, acessibility, and
Los Angeles-based Pegasus has announced the appointment of George Azzi as executive vice president, a key addition following his tenure as regional manager of Marcus & Millichap’s Los Angeles office, and the first in a trio of strategic new hires. Azzi brings two decades of commercial real estate experience in Los Angeles County, with a
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Christian Hollar, a recent graduate of Duke University’s Master of Engineering in Financial Technology program and an avionics software design engineer at Boeing. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Pursuing a master’s degree in finance technology, or fintech, engineering was one of the
Bitcoin has dropped slightly after hitting an all-time high of $123 per bitcoin last week (even as U.S. president Donald Trump issues a bullish bitcoin prediction). Sign up now for CryptoCodex—A free newsletter for the crypto-curious The bitcoin price, up 300% in just two years, has exploded onto Wall Street and into companies’ treasuries, with
As the price of bitcoin rallies above $100,000, a host of companies are harnessing public markets via SPACs and reverse mergers to purchase digital assets en masse. So called crypto treasury companies, public firms that focus on acquiring digital assets like bitcoin, have become one of the most talked-about trends of 2025, and for good
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