Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire Tambourine, an e-commerce customer experience agency with award-winning capabilities in cloud-based technologies in Japan. Tambourine brings a proven track ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Bro Behind Staples Center Renaming Has Messy Past
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek resigned from his last job in 2016, leaving behind customers and business partners who claimed they were ripped off. ( read original story ...)
Japan Prices Edge Up for a Second Month as Gasoline Surges
Higher energy costs caused Japanese consumer prices to edge up for a second month in October, with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expected later Friday to deliver a stimulus package that includes ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Plans Record $6.7 Billion-Plus Defence Spending in Extra Budget -Kyodo
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan plans to allocate at least 770 billion yen ($6.74 billion) for defence in a supplementary budget expected to be announced along with an economic stimulus package on Friday, ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Consumer Inflation Rises for Second Month in October
Japan's core consumer prices rose for the second straight month in October, reinforcing signs that surging energy and raw material costs are gradually pushing up inflation. Consumer inflation is ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 1-Japan’s consumer inflation rises for 2nd month in Oct
Japan's core consumer prices rose for the second straight month in October, reinforcing signs that surging energy and raw material costs are gradually pushing up inflation. Consumer inflation is ... ( read original story ...)
Japan eyes record stimulus package, bucking global tapering trend
Japan is set to compile on Friday a record $488 billion spending package to cushion the economic blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, bucking a global trend towards withdrawing crisis-mode stimulus ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s markets set to rise; investors to watch tech stocks as Alibaba earnings miss expectations
Alibaba on Thursday missed revenue and earnings expectations for the September quarter, as slowing economic growth in China weighed on results. ( read original story ...)
Baseball-Japan’s Ohtani lands American League MVP award
(Reuters) -Double threat Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels was named Most Valuable Player of Major League Baseball's American League on Thursday, making him only the second Japanese player to ... ( read original story ...)
The Crypto Company Behind the Renaming of the Los Angeles Staples Center
By the end of this year, the name will be emblazoned on one of the most storied U.S. sports venues, part of an expensive marketing blitz from a little-known company that took over the web address and ... ( read original story ...)
Some crypto companies frown on infrastructure law, while some financial advisors cheer for it
Hi there. Welcome to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that will reach your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto group raises over $40 million to buy early copy of US Constitution
A crypto group using the imagery of a treasure-hunting Nicolas Cage has been raising money to make a winning bid for an early copy of the US Constitution. The fundraising goal was originally $20 ... ( read original story ...)
US government seizes $56 million in crypto from BitConnect’s ‘number one promoter’
The US government has seized $56 million worth of cryptocurrency from an admitted participant in the BitConnect scam and intends to sell the coins and use the proceeds to reimburse victims. The ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto ‘Hypergrowth’ Can Beat Inflation, Says iCapital’s Anastasia Amoroso
With higher inflation and more modest stock gains likely looming ahead in the new year, Anastasia Amoroso, chief investment strategist at iCapital Network, says investors should be looking at 2021’s ... ( read original story ...)
Sweetgreen stock soars after its IPO, valued at more than $5 billion
Salad restaurant chain Sweetgreen was valued at $5.5 billion when it began trading as a public company on Thursday.By the numbers: The Los Angeles-based company priced its IPO shares at $28, which was ... ( read original story ...)
Minor magnitude 2.5 earthquake at 156 km depth
Detailed earthquake information - overview map, magnitude, time, depth, source, shake map, list of reports. File an "I felt it" report if you felt the quake! Features interactive map, read user ... ( read original story ...)