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Tencent told staff it will set up a subsidiary tasked with building an extended reality business as the race to compete against Mark Zuckerberg's Meta heats up.
The use of high-yield leveraged products worsened the rout in the $247 billion decentralised finance industry over the weekend, Binance chief Changpeng Zhao said
The crypto lender said it carried out an emergency assessment of its business operations to determine the company's liquidity status.
The tax will be levied on the difference between the cost of the acquisition of the asset and the transfer price to the employee, the report said
The crypto sector was fearful on Monday as investors worried that contagion from problems linked to several large crypto players may lead to a major shakeout if not contained.
CBDCs such as China's digital yuan (e-CNY) are centralised by design and don't need a decentralised ledger, such as in the case of bitcoin
The biggest cryptocurrency is down about 32% over the past month and almost 60% this year
The chief executive of JD.com's retail business, Xin Lijun, says regulation of China's tech sector is not loosening but becoming more "stable" and "rational," according to CNBC
Keith Johnson accused Musk, electric car company Tesla and SpaceX of racketeering by touting Dogecoin and driving up its price
Honda, like rival Toyota, has been slow to shift to EVs and is under pressure from investors to make cars that are carbon-free and equipped with self-driving technology
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