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Afterpay's Nick Molnar thinks millennials and Gen Z won't trust buy now, pay later products from the Commonwealth Bank and PayPal Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar has downplayed the competitive threat posed by PayPal and the Commonwealth Bank as both eye an entry into the buy now, pay later (BNPL) sector.

Basketball highlight clips are selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, Australia's NBL is considering its own NFT marketplace. Australia's National Basketball League "certainly wouldn't rule out" creating its own NFT marketplace, said Commissioner Jeremy Loeliger. NBA Top Shot, an NFT trading platform for officially-licensed highlight clips, boasts some $526 million in sales.

'The richest man in the world against workers': Amazon is trying to defeat what experts call the most important union vote in decades Amazon is following in Walmart's footsteps as it wages an aggressive anti-union campaign against workers in Alabama.

SpaceX is dominating orbit with its Starlink satellites, making the risk of space traffic collision a serious hazard, industry experts say Elon Musk's company is heightening the risk of collisions between space objects by putting more satellites in orbit, space industry experts say.

Australian 'link in bio' startup LinkTree has raised another $45 million, and it's betting big on social commerce Linktree, the Australian startup that helps connect consumers to creator output, announced US$45 million in funding and is expanding globally, investing in social commerce, payments and engagement.

The Suez Canal has a contentious history and has been blocked and closed several times since opening In total, there have been five closures to the Suez Canal since its opening in 1869, one of which has forced the vital shipping route to shut down for years.

Photos taken from a plane flying over the Suez Canal show epic queue of ships as giant container vessel remains stuck The Ever Given, which ran aground on Tuesday, has held up more than 300 other ships needing to travel through the Suez Canal.

6 trends in influencer marketing that are emerging in 2021, according to an expert Brands that never would have touched emerging platforms like Tiktok and Clubhouse have become more creative since the pandemic lockdowns last year says Clare Winterborn, founder of influencer marketing agency Born Bred Talent.

As virtual reality's popularity grows, sex-tech companies are making plans for increased online intimacy Raspberry Dream Labs is testing a virtual reality cybersex experience with immersive sounds, scents, and haptic pulses.

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