This week in esports: Apex Legends, BLAST, DreamHack, Riot Games

As always, we’ve rounded up the biggest and best stories from the past week so you…

Ripple raises $200 million to improve global payments

Ripple has raised a $200 million Series C funding round. Tetragon is leading the round, with…

Consumer sentiment rises for December despite Trump’s impeachment

A holiday shopper enters the New York City Subway following Black Friday shopping, November 29, 2019.…

Ripple, the creator of cryptocurrency XRP, is now valued at $10 billion

Brad Garlinghouse, chief executive officer of Ripple Labs Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty…

G5 releases new game Wordplay: Exercise Your Brain for worldwide pre-order

STOCKHOLM–(BUSINESS WIRE)–G5 Entertainment has submitted Wordplay: Exercise your brain to the Apple App Store and Google…

2019 has a chance at being a historic year for the stock market

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The…

MrBeast Contest Awards $1 Million to Last One Standing

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MrBeast’s latest giveaway has crowned a $1 million champion in one of the most unique…

Allied Esports welcomes Wanyoo to affiliate program

Esports entertainment company Allied Esports has established a partnership with Chinese esports company Wanyoo. Wanyoo is…

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: CarMax, BlackBerry, Winnebago, Apple & more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: BlackBerry (BB) – The provider of security…

Immortals partners with GameStop and Ironclad Performance Wear

Immortals, the LCS franchise owned by Immortals Gaming Club, has partnered with GameStop and Ironclad Performance…

WiSA Announces the Launch of the Monaco 5.1 Plus Axiim LINK System, An Immersive Wireless Home Audio System from Platin, Tuned by THX

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–WiSA(R) LLC, the Wireless Speaker Audio Association, founded by Summit Wireless Technologies, Inc.…

This year in esports: Investments, sponsorships and deals in 2019

2019 is all but over and you’d be mistaken to think that it wasn’t another big…

BLAST Premier details inaugural event in London

BLAST has revealed the details for the first stop in its BLAST Premier circuit, setting up…

Curve, the ‘over-the-top’ banking platform, launches “Curve Send” for P2P payments in 25 currencies

Curve, the so-called “over-the-top” banking platform that lets you consolidate all of your bank cards into…

The unbrandening

Josh Gross Contributor Josh Gross is the managing partner at digital product studio Planetary and its…

Houston Outlaws appoints Jeff Zajac as events executive

Beasley Media Group has appointed Jeff Zajac as the Executive Director of Events and Strategic Alliances…

Here’s what happened to the stock market on Thursday

Specialist trader Michael Pistillo Jr. wears a dow 23,000 hat, after the dow briefly traded above…

HaptX grabs $12 million to build a glove crammed with sensors

A company building a very high-tech glove has just gotten its hands on some new money.…

This map shows where people with the best – and worst – credit card habits live in the US

A man uses a credit card to pay for gas in Miami, Florida. Getty Images America…

Joe Biden picks up support from influential Wall Street fundraisers Marc Lasry and Blair Effron, who backed Obama and Clinton

Joe Biden’s fundraising network is about to get a big boost just in time for 2020.…