Adobe Acrobat Can Now Turn PDFs Into Podcasts and Presentations

Laurent Giret / thurrott - Adobe Acrobat can now turn PDFs into professional-looking presentations and podcasts. The new AI features require a $24.99/month Acrobat Studio subscription.The post Adobe Acrobat Can Now Turn PDFs Into Podcasts and Presentations appeared first on Thurrot…

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Is Bermuda Ready for a Fully Onchain Economy? Coinbase Joins Forces

Maxwell Mutuma / parameter - TLDR Bermuda has partnered with Coinbase and Circle to transform its economy into a fully onchain system using blockchain technology. The initiative will integrate digital asset infrastructure across government, businesses, and consumers in Bermuda. Stabl…

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Inside Montreal’s Massive New Apple Store: Why This Opening is Different

John Quintet / iphoneincanada - Apple officially opened its expanded retail location on Sainte-Catherine Street West today, a move that significantly grows its footprint in Montreal. The new shop is more than double the size of the previous location and is the result of years of plannin…

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Europe’s Largest Defense Fund for Startups Set for €500 Million

Christina Kyriasoglou / bloomberg - German investor Digital Transformation Capital Partners GmbH is on track to raise Europe’s largest-ever dedicated venture capital fund for defense startups, signing its first big backers for a fund targeting €500 million ($580 million).

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Goldman Sachs Looks Into Potential Opportunities in Prediction Markets

PYMNTS / pymnts - Goldman Sachs is looking into how it might get involved in prediction markets, Chairman and CEO David Solomon said Thursday (Jan. 15). Asked about this and other innovations by an analyst during the company’s earnings call, Solomon said that prediction ma…

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Microsoft is Closing Its Employee Library and Cutting Back on Subscriptions

msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft's library of books is so heavy that it once caused a campus building to sink, according to an unproven legend among employees. Now those physical books, journals, and reports, and many of Microsoft's digital …

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Visa Partners With BVNK to Enable Stablecoin Payouts on Visa Direct

Vismaya V / decrypt - The integration will enable businesses to fund and receive Visa Direct payouts using stablecoins in select markets.

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Spot Ship Raises £1M To Modernise Ship Chartering

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Spot Ship, a SaaS platform modernising global ship chartering, has raised £1 million in a funding round led by Ventures.eu, marking the Lisbon-based VC’s first investment from Fund I. The round also included Improbable CEO Herman Narula, Tradeworks.vc, Ma…

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Apple Services Hit Record Highs in 2025 as App Store Commerce Tops $1.3 Trillion

iclarified - Apple's Services division closed out a record-setting 2025, posting strong engagement across its platforms and facilitating $1.3 trillion in commerce through the App Store ecosystem. In a year-end performance update released today, the company highlighted…

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World's largest custodial bank BNY to offer tokenized deposits for institutional investors

Aoyon Ashraf / coindesk - The initiative mirrors deposit balances on a private blockchain to speed up settlement and unlock liquidity.

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Cologne-based United Manufacturing Hub Secures €5M To Unlock Industrial Data For Modern Factories

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Cologne-based United Manufacturing Hub (UMH), an open-source industrial data management platform for modern factories, has raised €5 million to accelerate its goal of building a foundational data layer for global manufacturing. The funding round was led b…

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Swap Raises $100M in Series C Funding

FinSMEs / finsmes - Swap, a NYC-based provider of a commerce operating system, raised $100m in Series C funding. The round was co-led by DST Global and ICONIQ. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach, as well as to invest …

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'I Switched To eSIM in 2025, and I am Full of Regret'

msmash / slashdot - Google's Pixel 10 series arrived this year as the company's first eSIM-only lineup in the United States, forcing users who wanted to review or buy the new phones to abandon their physical SIM cards entirely. Ryan Whitwam, a senior technology reporter at A…

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China to let banks pay interest on digital yuan to drive adoption

Timmy Shen / theblock - China's central bank will allow commercial banks to pay interests on digital yuan holdings in a new framework taking effect on Jan. 1, 2026.

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Former IBM CEO and savior Louis Gerstner dies aged 83

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Louis Gerstner, the former Chief Executive Officer credited with saving IBM Corp. from bankruptcy, has died aged 83, the company revealed on Sunday. Gerstner (pictured) served as Chairman and CEO of IBM from 1993 to 2002, taking over during one of the dar…

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Omnidocs acquires majority stake in Switzerland’s officeatwork to deepen DACH presence

Cate Lawrence / tech - Danish software company Omnidocs has acquired a majority stake in officeatwork, a Switzerland-based provider of document creation solutions with a strong foothold in the DACH region. Omnidocs is a do...

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Coursera to Acquire Udemy in $2.5 Billion All-Stock Deal

Jon Swartz / techstrong - Coursera Inc. announced Wednesday it will acquire rival online learning platform Udemy Inc. in an all-stock transaction, creating a combined entity valued at approximately $2.5 billion as the education technology sector consolidates following pandemic-era…

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Digital bank Monzo gains a full European banking licence

Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - UK-based digital bank Monzo is ready to expand into Europe. The fintech has acquired a full banking licence from the Central Bank in Ireland, as well as from the European Central Bank. Monzo has gone from strength to strength since it launched back in 201…

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