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Tokyo shares slipped Wednesday morning, driven down by high oil prices as well as a surging yen despite global rallies on news that peace talks over Ukraine are making progress.The benchmark Nikkei ... ( read original story ...)

Hackers stole about $600 million from a blockchain network connected to the popular Axie Infinity online game in one of the biggest crypto attacks to date. ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan has bucked the global trend for a tighter monetary policy and maintained an ultra-loose stance. But BOJ is finding it difficult to keep control of key bond yields, stoking speculation ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Display on Wednesday said it planned to begin production of new display panel components it says can significantly lower power consumption and extend the battery life of smart watches and other ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Hirokazu Matsuno Russia demanded last week that “unfriendly” countries must pay in roubles, not euros, for its gas in the wake of the United States and European allies teaming up on a series of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Shinsei Bank Ltd will in three years have a plan in place to repay $3 billion in public funds as it taps synergies with its new parent to enhance its capital base, its new chief executive said ... ( read original story ...)

UK's Arm Ltd is planning to transfer shares in its Chinese joint venture to a SoftBank Group special purpose vehicle to speed up its initial public offering plans, The Financial Times reported on ... ( read original story ...)

Arm China to parent SoftBank Group Corp. and revising how it accounts for the troubled Chinese affiliate, a bookkeeping change that may ease the British chip designer’s path to an initial public ... ( read original story ...)

This Asia tech industry summary will mainly focus on Kioxia and Western Digital (WD) planning to invest JPY 1 trillion (US$8.19 billion) to build a new NAND flash factory in Japan, China-based ... ( read original story ...)

Domestic equity market benchmarks BSE Sensex and Nifty 50 were staring at a gap-up start on Wednesday, a day before monthly F&O expiry. Nifty futures were trading 155.50 points or 1 per cent up at ... ( read original story ...)

Crypto was big at YC this batch. Y Combinator Demo Days returned yet again with another ballooning heap of startups. In the old days, a gaggle of TechCrunch reporters would go to the Demo Day in ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Nikkei index fell on Wednesday, sinking from a 10-week high hit in the previous session, as traders locked in profits heading into the new fiscal year after snapping up shares on Tuesday to ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan stepped up its extraordinary market interventions aimed at capping yields Wednesday, surprising investors with a pledge to buy more securities than planned and include longer-dated ... ( read original story ...)

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have bounced back over the last week, with the crypto market adding some $600 billion since its January ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese retail sales fell in February for the first time in five months, as extended COVID-19 curbs hit service sector businesses, casting doubts over the prospects of a consumption-led recovery this ... ( read original story ...)

Cryptocurrency scams are driving an online crime boom right now, including romance scams, investment scams, digital wallet hacks and more. ( read original story ...)