The conviction being that the rewards entailed in bringing more than ten thousand athletes from more than 200 countries together in Tokyo outweigh the risks involved in that enterprise. The ... ( read original story ...)
Russia joins China and South Korea in expressing ‘serious concern’ at Japan’s plan to release waste water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Russia wants more information from Japan, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday, including an assessment of environmental risks in the Pacific. ( read original story ...)
Show me the medals: Ireland drops one place in Tokyo Olympic predictions
Predicting Olympic medal winners can be a futile business at the best at times; during pandemic times, when there’s still no predicting how exactly the Tokyo Olympics will unfold, it may even be ... ( read original story ...)
Coinbase’s blockbuster debut is ‘watershed’ for crypto — but there are risks ahead
Coinbase’s public market debut is “potentially a watershed event for the crypto industry and will be something the Street will be laser focused on to gauge investor appetite,” said Dan Ives, a tech ... ( read original story ...)
Coinbase CEO says regulation is one of the biggest threats to crypto
Coinbase is set to become the first major crypto company to go public in the U.S. after it hits the markets through a direct listing Wednesday. Regulation is one of the biggest risks when it comes to ... ( read original story ...)
CEO of Biggest Crypto Asset Manager on What’s Behind Bitcoin’s Appeal
Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein discusses the reasons for bitcoin’s meteoric rise over the last year, and the prospects for a bitcoin ETF. ( read original story ...)
Coinbase Is Going Public – Will This Create Further Crypto Differentiation?
The twin forces of the Coinbase direct listing, coupled with the continuing bullish run in the crypto market at large, are clear indicators that crypto is situated to continue its breakout year. It ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto platform Coinbase is on its way to be bigger than Goldman Sachs
And he reckons Coinbase, the crypto currency platform joining Nasdaq this afternoon, will leap to be more valuable than Goldman Sachs. Is he right? Probably. Many fortunes in the City have been missed ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto market overtakes world’s most valuable company
The cryptocurrency market is now worth more than the world’s most valuable company. The combined value of all cryptocurrencies overtook the market cap of Apple on Wednesday morning, amid ... ( read original story ...)
What Time Will Coinbase Start Trading? Where To Buy Stock As Crypto Exchange Goes Public
Coinbase shares will be listed publicly on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker COIN, and available to purchase via trading apps including Robinhood and WeBull. ( read original story ...)
Crypto Miners Are Competing With Gamers for Nvidia Chips
Nvidia Corp. is on a winning streak. The red-hot maker of graphics chips used for video games, artificial intelligence and cloud computing surpassed Intel Corp. last year to become the most valuable U ... ( read original story ...)
Controversial Toshiba CEO steps down, shares jump on bidding war expectations
Toshiba Corp CEO Nobuaki Kurumatani resigned on Wednesday amid controversy over a $20 billion buyout bid from CVC Capital Partners and the conglomerate’s shares surged on reports that KKR & Co and ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 4-J-League Results
Marinos (1900/1000) Saturday, April 17 fixtures (JST/GMT) Yokohama v Vegalta Sendai (1400/0500) Tokushima Vortis v Kashima Antlers (1400/0500) Avispa Fukuoka v Tokyo (1400/0500) Oita Trinita v Kashiwa ... ( read original story ...)
Hanyu wants to give figure-skating ‘hope’ to virus-hit Osaka
Japan's two-time Olympic gold medallist Yuzuru Hanyu is hoping to inspire coronavirus-hit Osaka when he competes at skating's World Team Trophy ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: How ready are Japan and Team GB?
The countdown to the delayed Tokyo Olympics is on with 100 days to go to the opening ceremony on 23 July. But how prepared are Japan and Team GB and what will a Games amid a global pandemic look like? ( read original story ...)
Why it’s hard to trust Japan’s handling of Fukushima wastewater
On Tuesday, The Japanese government decided to go ahead with the controversial solution to a 10-year-long crisis following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The Fukushima plant, operated by the ... ( read original story ...)