Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is selling $2.2 billion-worth of new stock to aid it in its fight against Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN). Rakuten announced it was selling shares primarily ... ( read original story ...)
Ethereum Cofounder Reveals How Radical Upgrade Could Challenge Bitcoin For Crypto Price Dominance
A proposed upgrade to the ethereum blockchain that will destroy (or "burn") ether tokens could mean ethereum becomes more "sound" than bitcoin, according to ethereum cofounder Vitalik ... ( read original story ...)
India to make US vaccines with Japan funds, Australia logistics
Quad vaccine experts group, Quad Critical and Emerging Technology Working Group, and Quad Climate Working Group. ( read original story ...)
Earthquake science takes great strides in the 10 years since massive quake hit Japan
Japan, resulting in a massive tsunami, killing nearly 16,000 people. But it also became the best studied large earthquake in history thanks to the number of instruments that captured the event in ... ( read original story ...)
Capcom Security Breach Reportedly Forces Employees Back Into Their Offices
Capcom employees in Osaka are back in their offices despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has claimed nearly 8,500 lives in the region, according to a Business Journal report. As translated by ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka changes her look again: here’s her hair like…
And to think that only a few days ago the Japanese champion had published a photo of her with pink hair, in homage to Sakura Haruno, one of the main characters of the famous manga Naruto ... ( read original story ...)
U.S., India, Japan and Australia counter China with billion-dose vaccine pact
The United States and three of its closest Indo-Pacific partners committed to supplying up to a billion coronavirus vaccine doses across Asia by the end of 2022 on Friday at a meeting carefully ... ( read original story ...)
Olympic host Japan will not take part in China vaccine offer
TOKYO (AP) — Japan will not take part in China’s offer — accepted by the International Olympic Committee — to provide vaccines for “participants” in the postponed Tokyo Games and next year’s Beijing ... ( read original story ...)
US, India, Australia, Japan agree to send 1 billion vaccines across Asia by end-2022
Leaders of the United States, India, Australia and Japan agreed to pool financing, manufacturing and distribution capacity to send 1 billion coronavirus vaccines across Asia by the end of 2022, ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Giant Binance Weighs Registering With CFTC, Baucus Says
Binance Holdings Ltd., the operator of the largest cryptocurrency exchange, is weighing whether to register with the U.S.’s futures regulator, according to Max Baucus, a former Senator and ambassador ... ( read original story ...)
Bitcoin Hoard Fuels One of the World’s Biggest Crypto Fortunes
It’s the latest corporate strategy for companies from Tesla Inc. to Square Inc.: shift a portion of cash reserves into cryptocurrencies as digital assets become more mainstream. ( read original story ...)
Buyer Of $69.3 Million Beeple NFT Revealed To Be Pseudonymous Crypto Investor
A pseudonymous crypto investor known only as Metakovan was the winning bidder of the record-breaking Beeple NFT sold for $69.3 million on Thursday. The sale represented the largest amount ever paid ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto investor ‘Metakovan’ named as buyer of $70 million digital artwork
The buyer of a $70 million digital-only artwork was named on Friday by auction house Christie's as a crypto asset investor who goes by the pseudonym "Metakovan." The auction to buy the work by digital ... ( read original story ...)
Beeple Art Sold for $69 Million to Founder of Crypto Fund Metapurse
Christie’s said that a cryptocurrency investor based in Singapore won the digital collage whose sale smashed records in markets for both art and nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. ( read original story ...)
US, India, Japan and Australia counter China with vaccine pact
would work to finance Indian drug maker Biological E Ltd to produce at least 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses by the end of 2022. It also said Japan was in discussions to provide concessional yen ... ( read original story ...)
Finance Minister meets Ambassador of Japan
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Minister of Finance B.Javkhlan had a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Mongolia Hiroyuki Kobayashi on March 9. Ambassador Kobayashi ... ( read original story ...)