• Dec 16, 2024

Salt Security CEO & Co-Founder Roey Eliyahu, Live at Nasdaq MarketSite

Tech Edge hosted a fireside chat on Dec. 10 at Nasdaq MarketSite with Roey Eliyahu, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Salt Security. The in-person interview was joined by Editor-at-Large Jarrett Banks and they discussed the API security market and Salt’s distinct approach to cybersecurity, businesses’ best practices to improve their API security posture, among other topics. Watch […]

  • Dec 16, 2024

Octus CMO Jeff Winter, Live at Nasdaq MarketSite

Tech Edge hosted a fireside chat on Dec. 10 at Nasdaq MarketSite with Jeff Winter, Chief Marketing Officer of Octus. The in-person interview was joined by Editor-in-Chief John Jannarone and they discussed Reorg’s recent rebranding to Octus, why the company is the authority on the credit market, and how Octus is an essential tool for asset managers, […]

  • Dec 16, 2024

Australian consumers fret over the economy in December, survey shows

Australian consumer sentiment took a step back in December as concerns about the economic outlook outweighed an improvement in people's own finances, a survey showed on Tuesday. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment fell 2.0% in December, unwinding a little of the sharp gains seen over the previous two months. Westpac Senior Economist Matthew Hassan said the pullback was likely influenced by a disappointing reading on economic growth released in early December.

  • Dec 16, 2024

Bitcoin buyer MicroStrategy ends flat after getting Nasdaq 100 nod

(Reuters) -MicroStrategy shares briefly surged on Monday before faltering to end nearly unchanged, after the software company and bitcoin stockpiler was selected to join the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index, further brightening the prospects of the stock. The $25.7 trillion index that houses the largest non-financial companies will now gain indirect exposure to bitcoin via MicroStrategy, which holds $44 billion worth of the digital currency on its balance sheet, about 2% of the total supply of the world's largest cryptocurrency. The prospect of more buying from funds that track the Nasdaq 100 could further boost MicroStrategy's stock that has surged nearly 550% this year alongside a jump in the bitcoin price.