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Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures back trading app Fomo at $550 million valuation

The startup previously raised $17 million in a round led by Benchmark.

Checker Raises $8M from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures and Framework Ventures to Unify Fragmented Digital Asset Markets for Institutions

NEW YORK, May 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Checker, a global network that enables financial institutions to plug into stablecoins and digital asset liquidity, cross-border payments, treasury, and credit via a single API, announced today that it has raised $8M in funding from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, and Framework Ventures.…

“Leo was somewhat disgusted that he played an indirect role in the newfangled radical and rambunctious sounds that were taking over radio airwaves”: How the Fender Jazzmaster became the one offset to rule them all – even if no one really used it for jazz

“Leo was somewhat disgusted that he played an indirect role in the newfangled radical and rambunctious sounds that were taking over radio airwaves”: How the Fender Jazzmaster became the one offset to rule them all – even if no one really used it for jazz

Joe Pass was one of the few jazz cats who used the Jazzmaster for what it was designed for. But that didn't stop it being a sleeper hit for Fender, and a future classic

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ASICS, the 75-year-old sportswear maker behind the Onitsuka Tiger brand, gets into virtual reality with a new Pong-like video game

DISC, which resembles Tron or 1994 cult classic Windjammers, is ASICS's first foray into the gaming space, from its new ASICS Ventures division.

“I played poker with Freddie King during one of the tours he did with Eric Clapton. I lost half my tour money!” Session legend George Terry on eating Whoppers with Diana Ross and high times as Eric Clapton’s go-to ’70s six-string lieutenant

George Terry looks back on a decade of hits with the Bee Gees, Barbra Streisand, ABBA, and Diana Ross, and his adventures and misadventures with Slowhand

How to play surf music on guitar: 3 techniques that will make your playing sound authentic

This introduction to surf guitar will teach you the basics of the style popularized by Dick Dale, The Surfaris and The Ventures

“Like so many of Leo Fender’s products, these instruments ended up being wildly successful at producing sounds that ran contrary to his intentions”: The history of Fender offset guitars

Only now, over 60 years on from their launch, are the Jazzmaster and Jaguar becoming recognised as guitars for all players. We trace the innovations that mapped the offset’s long journey from misunderstood outsider to contemporary king

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Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley: Despite Diamond Disappointment, Sports Is Still the Broadcaster's Crown Jewel (Bloom)

Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley: Despite Diamond Disappointment, Sports Is Still the Broadcaster's Crown Jewel (Bloom)

Ripley and Sinclair look to move beyond their bankrupt RSN subsidiary and onto new means and ways to distribute live sports

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Tom Hamilton: "I thought, I'll be damned if I'm going to play eighth-notes on the root all my life!"

Tom Hamilton: "I thought, I'll be damned if I'm going to play eighth-notes on the root all my life!"

Aerosmith’s long-serving bassist reflects on becoming a "music-book junkie", channeling John Paul Jones and "smoking a bowl" before writing Sweet Emotion

Ballymena cemetery software company PlotBox wins £5M investment

Ballymena cemetery software company PlotBox wins £5M investment

London-based Guinness Ventures are lead investors

Birmingham Post

St Pauls Adventure Playground closes for at least a month

St Pauls Adventure Playground closes for at least a month

The team are carrying out repairs to the playground

How Choose Your Own Adventures helped me win the Booker prize

How Choose Your Own Adventures helped me win the Booker prize

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on how the gamebooks he grew up with became a literary gateway for curious young readers around the world

The Guardian - UK

Verizon reshuffles corporate venture arm leadership amid companywide cost-cutting efforts

Verizon reshuffles corporate venture arm leadership amid companywide cost-cutting efforts

Verizon Ventures has two new leaders.

Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and a ballistic missile and anti-terrorism expert

SAN DIEGO — Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a man of international intrigue and a secret agent?

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Psyched: Medical Psychedelics In Davos, Canadian Sen Does Psychedelics, Ei.Ventures & Mycotopia To Merge Into $383M Company

Medical Psychedelics have made it into Davos, just in time for the World Economic Forum.

Ehave's Mycotopia Therapies To Merge With Ei.Ventures To Form PSLY.COM

Mycotopia Therapies (OTCPK:TPIA) subsidiary of Ehave, Inc. (OTCPK:EHVVF), has signed a definitive agreement to complete a triangular merger with Ei.Ventures, to form PSLY.COM. The companies anticipate closing the transaction on or about July 30, 2022.

Ei.Ventures And Mycotopia To Merge Into New Psychedelic Mushroom Company

Two companies in the psychedelics space have signed a definitive agreement to merge.

Does Coinbase Carry A 'Hidden Value' In $6.6B Ventures Business?

Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) has hidden value that is yet to be realized through its Ventures business, according to Oppenheimer analysts, CoinDesk reported on Monday.

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Don Wilson, guitarist with The Ventures, dies at 88

Don Wilson, co-founder and rhythm guitarist of the instrumental guitar band The Ventures, has died

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