Fintech start-up Lanistar drops celebrity backer claims after 3,000 Instagram influencers were paid to promote its debit card Lanistar signed up footballer Kevin de Bruyne and Love Island’s Amber Gill It claimed to be ‘part-owned’ by ‘influential people’ in its launch campaign But the company has since dropped those claims Lanistar could not say how … Read more
Space exploration is expensive, and NASA is always looking for ways to economize. The US space agency will be saving some big bucks by paying a Colorado startup just $1 to collect soil samples from the moon. The company, Lunar Outpost, has agreed to send a rover to the lunar South Pole in 2023 to … Read more
FCA takes down Lanistar warning notice after the fintech firm pledges to make clear debit card marketed by influencers won’t launch until January Lanistar launched a viral marketing campaign last week to drum up interest It claimed its debit card would be the ‘world’s most secure’ The FCA warned last Wednesday it was operating without … Read more
A fintech start-up which paid more than 3,000 influencers including Premier League footballers and Love Island stars to promote a debit card it claimed would be ‘one of the world’s most secure’ has been accused by the financial regulator of peddling its products without authorisation. The Financial Conduct Authority issued a warning about Lanistar, which … Read more
Andy Rubin’s next project after Android isn’t exactly successful. Okay, make that “wasn’t” because the Essential team is no more. There was no big fuss about Essential’s end but a new startup was introduced recently composed of the same team that worked on Essential Products. The only difference is that Rubin isn’t part of the … Read more
Humans produce more than 300 million tons of plastic a year, half of which is single-use and About 26.8 million tons goes into landfills but more than eight million tons finds its way into the ocean. Now a UK startup is doing its part to break our global plastic addiction with an eco-friendly casing that can … Read more
High street banks are ‘stifling’ start-up firms at birth by rejecting applications for business bank accounts because they are too busy processing Bounce Back loans for existing companies. Most banks are not accepting new applications for business accounts or warning of long delays, in a development a business group warned could strangle Britain’s economic recovery. … Read more
BlackBerry is back! Texas startup set to revive the popular smartphone in 2021 that will include 5G, a physical keyboard and government-level security BlackBerry announced in February and end to its partnership with TCL TCL was manufacturing the smartphone, which meant it was to be discontinued A Texas startup acquired the license and will release … Read more
BlackBerry is back! Texas startup set to revive the popular smartphone in 2021 that will include 5G, a physical keyboard and government-level security BlackBerry announced in February and end to its partnership with TCL TCL was manufacturing the smartphone, which meant it was to be discontinued A Texas startup acquired the license and will release … Read more
UK start-up offering cinema-quality short films on mobiles signs deals with global telecoms giants to reach millions of new users By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:59 BST, 15 August 2020 | Updated: 21:59 BST, 15 August 2020 A UK start-up offering cinema-quality short films on mobiles has signed deals with global telecoms … Read more