Mark Stefano

Katie Haun has set up the offices of her new venture capital shop surprisingly close to her old one. Always security conscious from her time battling cybercriminals for the U.S. Department of Justice, Haun prefers to keep the precise location of her exceedingly well-funded Haun Ventures secret. ...

Crypto investors and executives often tout gaming as one of the best use cases for non-fungible tokens. On the surface that argument makes sense, because games encourage users to compete for NFT prizes or deck out their virtual avatars with NFT-based accessories. But where are all the blockchain ...

Last summer, Facebook made a splash when it announced a new newsletter publishing platform called Bulletin that would go head to head with Substack. It signed big names ranging from author Malcolm Gladwell to “Queer Eye” star Tan France, offering them unspecified multi-year licensing deals. On ...

TikTok’s European revenue soared 477% in 2021 as its userbase grew and the company improved its advertising offering. Revenue hit about $990.5 million for the year ending December 31, 2021, according to a filing with U.K.’s Companies House, up from $171.6 million a year earlier. The Financial Ti…

The crypto executive shuffle looks like it’s turning into a mass exodus.Just last week, Kraken co-founder and CEO Jesse Powell said he was stepping down from his post at the U.S.-based crypto exchange. Now, two more high-profile crypto leaders are heading for the exits—albeit each under ...

On July 14, James Hu was sitting in his “fabulously expensive” apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He had just returned from the Soho offices of OpenSea, the non-fungible token marketplace, where he had been laid off from his job and locked out of his work computer. The event was not exactly a ...

Abe Santos isn’t your typical talent guru. He spent more than a decade as a detective and investigator working with the Los Angeles Police Department, Department of Homeland Security and FBI. In 2018, he joined Google’s investigations and threat division, where his job included investigations ...

While Twitch is best known as a home for gamers, livestreams of creators gambling and playing online slots games or poker have also proved popular. Last month, the slots category on Twitch soared to an estimated 50 million hours watched, a 66% jump year-over-year.“It has gone from a novelty to a ...

Before Netflix hired Jeremi Gorman as its new advertising chief to bring growth back to its struggling business, Gorman had compiled a colorful résumé of professional and personal accomplishments. While she’s best known for turning her previous employer, Snap, into an internet ad powerhouse, ...

Social media companies are gradually introducing more ways to share their ad revenue with creators to keep them on their apps. YouTube is preparing to give creators 45% of the ad revenue generated on YouTube Shorts, the video platform’s short-form video feature, The New York Times reported late ...