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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, said Tuesday it is pausing withdrawals of the stablecoin USDC while it carries out a “token swap.” The move comes as investor concerns grow about Binance’s stability following the collapse of rival exchange FTX as well as a report of a potential criminal investigation from the U.S. government. related

In this article ORCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Safra Catz, Oracle’s CEO and then one of Oracle’s two co-CEOs, smiles during Oracle’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on, Sept. 20, 2016. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle shares rose as much as 4% in extended trading on Monday after the

Microsoft logo seen at their building in Redmond, Washington. Toby Scott | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images LONDON — U.S. tech giant Microsoft on Monday announced a 10-year partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group and took a near 4% stake in the U.K. bourse operator. The partnership involves next-generation data and analytics,

In this article FTT.CM= AMZN GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT John Ray, chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, arrives at bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Attorneys in the Bahamas filed an emergency motion on Friday asking a Delaware

In this article BTC.CM= ETH.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Kris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com, speaking at a 2018 Bloomberg event in Hong Kong, China. Paul Yeung | Bloomberg | Getty Images Kris Marszalek wants everyone to know that his company, Crypto.com, is safe and in good hands. His TV appearances and tweets make

In this article GETR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Paul Chinn | San Francisco Chronicle | Getty Images Carsharing company Getaround made its public market debut Friday through a merger with blank-check company InterPrivate II Acquisition Corp. The company saw its share value drop more than 65%, reflecting the chilly environment for both SPACs

A bike courier outside a grocery warehouse operated by Gorillas Technologies GmbH in the West Kilburn district of London, UK, on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Laura Zapata | Bloomberg | Getty Images Turkish grocery delivery firm Getir acquired its German rival Gorillas for an undisclosed amount, the company said Friday. “Markets go up and down,

In this article ATVI MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday it has filed an antitrust case against Microsoft to challenge the software maker’s attempt to acquire video game publisher Activision Blizzard, claiming it would violate U.S. law. This isn’t Microsoft’s first time dealing with competitive pressure. In

In this article TSLA TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An image of new Twitter owner Elon Musk is seen surrounded by Twitter logos in this photo illustration in Warsaw, Poland on 08 November, 2022.  STR | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk led a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter and appointed himself CEO

Former Theranos chief operating officer and president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison Wednesday for fraud, after the unraveling of the blood-testing juggernaut prompted criminal charges in California federal court against both Balwani and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who on Nov. 18 was sentenced to more than 11 years in

Lensa AI image. Sofia Pitt You may have noticed a new trend taking over your Instagram feed. Your friends are turning themselves into digital art with the help of an artificial intelligence-generated app called Lensa. Lensa AI is currently the top free app in Apple App Store, though you’ll have to pay to use the

Earlier this year, as the crypto meltdown was draining the industry of liquidity, FTX executives were begging company founder Sam Bankman-Fried to preserve cash and stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars on celebrity endorsements. But the 30-year-old billionaire, who’d relied on branding and hype to rapidly take his crypto exchange from upstart to stalwart,

In this article MSFT 7974.T-JP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Regulators have raised concerns that Microsoft could block the hit Call of Duty franchise from being released on rivals’ games consoles. Microsoft said it has offered Sony a 10-year contract for Call of Duty to be released on the PlayStation on the same day

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that Apple will buy U.S.-made microchips at an event in Arizona on Tuesday, where President Joe Biden also spoke. Cook said Apple would buy processors made in a new Arizona factory, according to a video from the event. “And now,

Anwar Almojarkesh (L) and Alan Chalabi (R) from England take a photo at Meta (formerly Facebook) corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, California on November 9, 2022. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images A group of Meta workers who joined the company via a corporate training program say they are receiving inferior severance packages compared

In this article BTC.CM= FTT.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried attends a press conference at the FTX Arena in downtown Miami on Friday, June 4, 2021. Matias J. Ocner | Miami Herald | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of FTX — the bankrupt

The Nothing Phone (1). Nothing U.K.-based consumer tech company Nothing is setting its sights on the U.S., with ambitions of taking on Apple’s iPhone. The startup, the hardware venture of Carl Pei — co-founder of Chinese mobile phone maker OnePlus — is in early conversations with American carriers about launching a new smartphone in the

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Adam Selipsky delivers a keynote address during AWS’ annual re:Invent conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas on Nov. 29, 2022. Noah Berger | Getty Images Amazon Web Services has been the biggest growth engine for its parent company over

In this article BTC.CM= FTT.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT John Ray, chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, arrives at bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Department of Justice has requested that an independent examiner be appointed to review

The Vogtle nuclear power plant is located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia in USA. Each of the two existing units have a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor (PWR), with a General Electric turbine and electric generator, producing approximately 2,400 MW of electricity. Two Westinghouse made AP 1000 reactors are under construction here. Pallava Bagla |

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Senior Vice President of Business Development at Amazon Jeff Blackburn (R) and Anne Blackburn attend the The IMDb Dinner Party at the Sundance Film Festival presented by Dolby on January 28, 2019 in Park City, Utah. Rich Polk | Getty Images Jeff Blackburn is retiring

People take selfies in front of the logo of Facebook parent company Meta on November 9, 2022 in Menlo Park, California. Meta will lay off more than 11,000 staff, the company said on Wednesday. Liu Guanguan | China News Service | Getty Images After years of seemingly boundless expansion, the U.S. tech industry has hit

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla CEO Elon Musk kicks off deliveries of the company’s heavy-duty truck, the Semi, at the Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada. Tesla Inc. Tesla CEO Elon Musk kicked off deliveries of the company’s first few production Semi trucks on Thursday, speaking on stage at the company’s

Neuralink logo displayed on a phone screen, a silhouette of a paper in shape of a human face and a binary code displayed on a screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 10, 2021. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s health tech venture Neuralink

In this article FTT.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, in possibly the understatement of 2022, said Wednesday, “I’ve had a bad month.” The former billionaire added that he “didn’t do a good job” at upholding his responsibilities to regulators, customers, and investors in a hotly anticipated conversation with CNBC’s

A member of the US Secret Service speaks on a cellphone as US President-elect Donald Trump attends meetings at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, November 10, 2016. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas announced on Wednesday that it has charged 21 people in

In this article 700-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tencent has faced a number of headwinds in 2022 including a Covid-induced slowdown in the Chinese economy and a tougher market for gaming. Bobby Yip | Reuters Tencent said it will launch new cloud computing products aimed at overseas markets as it searches for new

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk’s Twitter account displayed on a mobile with Elon Musk in the background are seen in this illustration. In Brussels – Belgium on 19 November 2022.  Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images In a recent update to its website, Twitter said that effective

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Twitter owner Elon Musk claimed on Monday in a series of tweets that Apple had threatened to remove the Twitter app from the App Store as part of its app review moderation process. “Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but

In this article FTT.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT BlockFi logo displayed on a phone screen and representation of cryptocurrencies are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 14, 2022. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Distressed crypto firm BlockFi has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the

In this article .SPACDEAL GOOGL META .SPX .NDX .IXIC MSFT RIVN TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pedestrians walk past the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York’s Times Square. Eric Thayer | Reuters It seems like an eternity ago, but it’s just been a year. At this time in 2021, the Nasdaq Composite had just

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk said in a tweet Friday that Twitter would launch its delayed “Verified” service next week with different colored checks depending on the type of account. The Twitter CEO said there would be a “gold check” for companies, a grey colored one for government

In this article WMT AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Walmart is top of mind for holiday shoppers who are hunting for Black Friday deals, according to new research. The big box retailer is dominating online searches for Black Friday discounts as of Friday morning, according to advertising technology company Captify, which tracks more