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I guess we shouldn't be all that surprised. But still, they did say it would be practically impossible. The Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Zaif suffered a major hack last week. It issued a statement on Thursday stating that approximately $59 mill

Ripple has major institutions and companies — including MoneyGram, Western Union, Mercury FX and Cambridge Global Payments — testing xRapid, which could use the XRP token.

Oil tumbled after a Reuters report that during this weekend's meeting of oil producing states in Algeria, OPEC and Non-OPEC states may boost production by half a million barrels per day, to offset lost Iran production.

“We’re still talking to Canada, and we’re getting very, very close to the deadline where we’re going to have to move ahead with Mexico all by themselves,” said Hassett, who chairs the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif has been robbed of $60 million worth of digital coins, its parent company Tech Bureau announced today. Zaif was hacked on September 14th during a two-hour time frame. Three days later, it uncovered server problems and

Amazon.com Inc is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new Amazon Go cashierless stores in the next few years, Bloomberg reported https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-19/amazon-is-said-to-plan-up-to-3-000-cashierless-stores-by-2021 on We

A new report by the research firm E-Marketer says by the end of this year, Amazon will be the third largest ad platform in the United States.

Coinbase's Armstrong said Brooks was recruited for his experience in dealing with the government.

PNC Bank, the 9th largest bank in the United States by assets, has joined Ripple's enterprise blockchain network RippleNet in what is a noteworthy addition for the San Francisco-based fintech. With over $380 billion in assets, Pittsburg-based PNC Fina

Bayer AG unit Monsanto on Tuesday asked a California judge to throw out a $289 million jury verdict awarded to a man who alleged the company's glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, gave him cancer.

The lawsuit claims that over the last several years, IBM has been in the process of systematically laying off older employees in order to build a younger workforce

Machines and technology in the workplace could create 133 million new jobs in place of 75 million that will be displaced between now and 2022, new research from the World Economic Forum found.

Pioneer Corp, once among the world's hottest names in technology before succumbing to debt and failed expansions, agreed to a bailout from Baring Private Equity.

Today, New York approved the first digital currencies that are tied to the US dollar, called "stablecoins." These cryptocurrencies avoid the price volatility of their brethren by being pegged to stable assets. The digital currencies in question, f

Just days after releasing the first Android 9 Pie-based OxygenOS Open Beta for OnePlus 6, the company is now rolling out the second version. The OxygenOS Open Beta 2 for the OnePlus 6 brings improvements in Wi-Fi stability, optimized multitasking UI, and optimized image quality for the front camera.

Earlier today, on September 9, the price of ETH, the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, fell to its yearly low at $185. While ETH has rebounded above the $200 mark after an unforeseen recovery of Bitcoin from $6,190 to $6,450, since July, ETH has seen a s

On September 10, Bitcoin experienced an unforeseen spike in its price, rising from $6,190 to $6,450. Yet, the rest of the market has struggled to recover, demonstrating slow movements. On August 15, the cryptocurrency market reached its lowest point in th

"A formerly-quintessential American company to attack a quintessential American right is a particularly sad episode in the current surge in corporate virtue-signaling"

AMAZON workers have described the "hellish" conditions inside the company's warehouses where they are reportedly made to hit "crushing" targets. Staff at the web giant have said they are forced to perform cult-like chants in conditions

Rupert Murdoch's media empire has launched an attack on Google on the Australian flank of the global giant's operations.