#Latin America fintech will be a market to watch in 2025

#Latin America fintech will be a market to watch in 2025

Heading into 2024, Mike Packer, a partner at fintech-focused QED Investors, predicted we’d hit the bottom for funding to Latin American fintech startups during the year. While momentum wasn’t a straight shot up and to the right, Packer’s prediction may still have come true. The volume of venture capital dollars invested into fintech companies based…

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#Bluesky now has 10 million users

#Bluesky now has 10 million users

Social network Bluesky said Monday that it now has more than 10 million users on the platform. This is largely thanks to the rapid growth of the network in the past few weeks after Elon Musk-owned X was shuttered in Brazil. “If you’re reading this, you’re one of the first 10 million users on Bluesky!” the…

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#Top court orders ban on Elon Musk’s X in Brazil

#Top court orders ban on Elon Musk’s X in Brazil

A top court in Brazil ordered an immediate, country-wide suspension of the X platform on Friday after a months-long legal battle with Elon Musk’s social media company over content moderation, according to Bloomberg.   The court added that anyone using VPN to access the X platform would be subject to daily fines of 50,000 reais…

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#Plane crash in Brazil kills 14 

#Plane crash in Brazil kills 14 

Fourteen people died in a Saturday plane crash in Northern Brazil, authorities announced. “I deeply regret the death of the 12 passengers and two crew members, victims of the plane crash that occurred this Saturday, in Barcelos,” Wilson Lima, the governor of Amazonas, said in a translated post on X, the platform formerly known as…

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