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South Korean Do Kwon co-founded TerraUSD and Luna, two cryptocurrencies that crashed last month, causing mayhem across the industry.
If the bid by Elon Musk to buy Twitter goes through, the Tesla chief executive will have potentially a stake of between 6% and 8% in the short video app
"We refute the popular narrative of one 'attacker' or 'hacker' working to destabilise UST," Nansen's principal research analyst Aurélie Barthère and colleagues said in the report.
Apple supplier Foxconn and chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) are among firms looking to access Japanese know-how.
Asset management firm One River sought to list on the NYSE Arca exchange, but the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled the ETF did not meet standards
Perring's next target is Sofina, the Belgian investment holding company that is a top-10 shareholder in the Bangalore-based Byju's
Officials in Shenzhen in China's southern Guangdong province are giving out millions in cash via the digital yuan to stimulate its pandemic-hit economy and use of the digital currency
US Senator Mark Rubio says companies marketing surveillance technologies developed in China should not be allowed near critical US infrastructure, such as a Florida rail line
China will spend more than $52 billion this year on testing, new medical facilities, monitoring equipment and other anti-Covid measures, which will benefit about 3,000 companies
From Google, Amazon and Microsoft to Alibaba and Tencent, US and Chinese tech firms have set up or are building dozens of data centres in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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PaymentsCan China Take Place of SWIFT System? Analysts Say ‘No’There is no global payment system that is strong enough to act as an alternative to SWIFT and enable Russia to evade sanctions
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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Market InsightsHere’s How China Can Win the Tech War With USAThe Chinese government is doubling down on incentives for innovation, which it believes to be the cornerstone of its future growth and international position.
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Fintech InsightsAsia Becomes the Epicentre of Global NFTsAsia is the frontrunner in the NFTs craze with Central and Southeast Asia accounting for 35% of the $22 billion in global trade
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