Venture capital funds poured a record $30 billion into crypto investments in 2021. That's nearly four-times the 2018 record of about $8 billion, Bloomberg reported. Much of that fundraising came from US venture capital, the report said. The number is in part thanks to investors funding "anything and everything"

Social media platform Parler said on Monday it will expand its business into non-fungible tokens (NFT), in a move that underpins the rapid growth of the digital asset in recent months.

This year, tech CEOs drew inspiration from a 1990s sci-fi novel, Reddit investors' lexicon seeped into the mainstream as "diamond hands" and "apes" shook Wall Street, and something called a DAO tried to buy a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution.

Official Spanish-language Prime Video channel was suspended on Sunday. No public reason given for suspension, but it followed a segment on talk show Esto es un Late. Host Henar Alvarez lifted up her shirt partway, apparently joking that it was one way to end the hours-long broadcast.

Billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, said he will pay more than $11 billion in taxes this year. The Tesla Inc. chief executive made the disclosure in a tweet on Sunday without offering additional details.

Oracle announced it was buying electronic healthcare records company Cerner in a deal valued at $28.3 billion. With this deal, Oracle moves in a major way into the healthcare vertical, a growing market. It should help bolster Oracle’s fledgling cloud infrastructure business, which is languishing in the single digits.

Meta is taking legal action against bad actors who allegedly impersonated Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram to conduct a phishing scam. The company claims that since 2019, the defendants created over 39,000 websites in an attempt to replicate Meta’s services.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is leading the private spaceflight industry. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic are also in the game. In 2021, the heads of these private companies will finally make good on their promises to the public. The goal is to launch civilians, astronauts and, in two cases, themselves into the uppermost reaches of Earth’s atmosphere.

SenseTime has kept its target of selling 1.5 billion shares in the initial public offering. The final price is due to be announced on Thursday. The planned listing was postponed last week after the US Treasury Department placed SenseTime on a list of "Chinese military-industrial complex companies"SenseTime denies the allegations.

Zoom will continue to be relevant even after the pandemic, an executive says. Ricky Kapur, head of Asia Pacific at Zoom, says there are three big shifts that are happening post-pandemic.

Epicenter has developed a microchip implant that can store a COVID-19 vaccine passport under the skin. The implant can then be read by any device using the near-field communication (NFC) protocol.

Growth marketing uses data and experimentation to optimize each stage of the funnel. Content marketing, for instance, is often used as a top-of-the-funnel strategy. But it's specific topics that end up bringing the target audience to the business. The goal is to figure out ways to turn more leads into purchases.