Janet Harrison

Janet Harrison has over 16 years experience in the financial services industry giving her a vast understanding of how news affects the financial markets, and an early adopter of blockchain technology and digital currencies. Janet is an active holder and trader spending the majority of her time analyzing blockchain projects, reports and watching new and upcoming projects and other initiatives in the industry. She has a Masters Degree in Economics with previous roles counting Investment Banking.

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Janet Harrison · Jun 15, 2026 · 3:50 PM

Xiaohongshu prepares a Hong Kong IPO built on its TikTok ban windfall

Xiaohongshu, the Chinese lifestyle platform known as RedNote, is preparing to file for a Hong Kong IPO this month with a pre-IPO valuation above $30 billion, Bloomberg reported. The company's path to public markets was shaped by the January 2025 TikTok ban, which turned it into a global name when it became the number one US App Store app within days of the ban taking effect. The filing also underscores Hong Kong's growing dominance as the default listing venue for Chinese tech as US-China tensio

Janet Harrison · Jun 15, 2026 · 10:07 AM

Satya Nadella says the real AI moat is a learning loop no one else can copy

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argued at a live taping of The New York Times' Hard Fork podcast that companies fixated on picking the right AI model are asking the wrong question. The real advantage comes from building a proprietary learning loop that compounds human judgment and AI capability together, rather than outsourcing cognition to frontier labs and handing them the economic surplus. For founders and enterprise buyers, it reframes AI ROI as a build-vs-buy moat question with long-term compou

Janet Harrison · Jun 15, 2026 · 5:30 AM

How to Build a SaaS MVP Before Your Idea Goes Cold

How to build a SaaS MVP has never been more accessible for a solo founder. AI coding tools like Cursor, alongside infrastructure from Vercel and Supabase, have compressed what once took four months into a matter of weeks. This guide covers the full path from problem definition to first paying customer.

Janet Harrison · Jun 15, 2026 · 5:02 AM

Ripple aims for $1 billion in revenue by year-end and XRP doesn't count

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse publicly committed to a $1 billion revenue run rate by end of 2026, with one deliberate catch: XRP holdings on the company's balance sheet don't factor into the number. The target, confirmed June 14, rests on enterprise client fees, cross-border payment infrastructure, and deals including the $1.25 billion Hidden Road acquisition and a Convera partnership processing $190 billion annually. It's Ripple's clearest argument yet that it deserves to be valued like a fintec

Janet Harrison · Jun 14, 2026 · 9:31 PM

How to Raise a Seed Round in 2026 When the Easy Money Is Gone

How to raise a seed round is a question that looks very different in 2026 than it did three years ago. The easy money is gone, and most of the guides still circulating online describe a market that no longer exists. This piece covers the story, the deck, investor targeting, and term sheet basics that actually work in the current environment.

Janet Harrison · Jun 14, 2026 · 9:06 PM

The best AI tools for small business are the ones tied to workflow: These nine AI tools save small businesses the most time in 2026

The best AI tools for small business in 2026 are not new products to discover. They are features already inside Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, HubSpot, QuickBooks, and the other apps most small teams already pay for. The question is not which tools to add but which specific jobs to assign and which workflows to automate.

Janet Harrison · Jun 14, 2026 · 7:37 PM

States are writing America's AI rules before Congress does

State lawmakers are moving ahead with targeted AI rules despite Trump's push for one national framework. The result may be a fragmented compliance regime that large AI firms can absorb more easily than startups.

Janet Harrison · Jun 14, 2026 · 1:29 PM

Meta says its old open AI strategy no longer works

Alexandr Wang’s Bloomberg Tech comments mark a clear retreat from Meta’s old open model strategy. Muse Spark stayed closed after safety testing found risks Meta believed it could manage only inside controlled deployment.

Janet Harrison · Jun 14, 2026 · 8:06 AM

China is turning mBridge into a live challenge to dollar payments

China is preparing the commercial rollout of mBridge, a blockchain-based cross-border payments platform backed by five central bank authorities. The bigger shift is the fragmentation of global payments, with China pushing CBDC rails while Washington leans on dollar stablecoins.

Janet Harrison · Jun 13, 2026 · 10:54 PM

Tata's Apple supply role now carries a pollution risk in India

Tamil Nadu's pollution regulator alleges wastewater from Tata Electronics' Hosur plant contaminated groundwater used by nearby farms. The case puts a local environmental test inside Apple's wider effort to make India a larger iPhone manufacturing base.

Janet Harrison · Jun 13, 2026 · 5:33 PM

AI agents are becoming guards for EV charging networks

Researchers at the University of Malaga's NICS lab have proposed AI agents that monitor EV charging networks from inside the infrastructure. The work matters because public chargers are becoming grid-edge systems, and security now has to move as quickly as deployment.

Janet Harrison · Jun 13, 2026 · 8:20 AM

Anthropic's model shutdown turns AI exports into a customer risk

Anthropic has taken Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline after a U.S. export-control directive barred access by foreign governments, companies, individuals and foreign nationals. The shutdown turns frontier-model access into a concrete enterprise risk, not just an AI-safety debate.

Janet Harrison · Jun 13, 2026 · 2:13 AM

Meta's outage shows how fragile its ad machine has become

Meta's June 12 outage affected Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Ads Manager and WhatsApp Business Platform. The disruption was short, but it exposed how much creators, advertisers and commerce teams now depend on Meta's integrated ad and messaging infrastructure.

Janet Harrison · Jun 12, 2026 · 8:05 PM

SpaceX opens 30 percent above IPO price in the largest stock market debut ever

SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq on June 12 under the ticker SPCX, opening around $175, roughly 30 percent above its $135 IPO price and pushing toward a $2 trillion market cap in the largest stock offering in history. The $75 billion raise, oversubscribed more than four times, signals deep institutional appetite for capital-intensive, long-horizon bets on space, defense, and AI infrastructure. For Anthropic and OpenAI watching from the sidelines, the debut is the most important stress test the

Janet Harrison · Jun 12, 2026 · 4:30 PM

Singapore Keeps Byju Raveendran Out of Jail While His Creditors Close In

Singapore's High Court has stayed Byju Raveendran's six-month contempt sentence pending appeal, but the $235 million repayment order and the underlying contempt finding remain intact. The case has established Singapore as the enforcement venue of choice for sovereign creditors pursuing India-domiciled founders. For the investors who backed Byju's at a $22 billion peak valuation, the proceedings across three jurisdictions are the final act of one of Asian tech's most expensive capital destruction

Janet Harrison · Jun 12, 2026 · 1:45 PM

Britain bets on state equity to stop its best startups from decamping to America

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has vowed the British state will take more risks alongside private investors, with the British Business Bank already anchoring £100 million of Oxford Quantum Circuits' record £260 million Series C and backing Wayve's $1.2 billion Series D. The £500 million Sovereign AI Fund adds equity of up to £20 million per startup, one million GPU-hours, and same-day visa processing for key hires. UK AI startups raised £6 billion in 2025 and are on pace to double that in 2026,