Tag: crypto

Linkage’s IPO follows a big gain on Friday by China’s Kingsoft Cloud, a cloud services business chaired by Chinese billionaire Lei Jun, after it began Nasdaq trading (see related story here ). Last ... ( read original story ...)

11:35 p.m. Japan moves to bring an early end to the state of emergency Thursday in 39 of its 47 prefectures, though greater Tokyo and Osaka will remain on the list of potential coronavirus ... There ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese stocks fell on Thursday, tracking an overnight slide on Wall Street, as sentiment soured after the U.S. Federal Reserve's chairman warned of an extended period of weak economic growth. Wall S ... ( read original story ...)

One campaign makes the case for a desk that connects to the internet, while another argues for a crypto wallet that doesn't. ( read original story ...)

In week one of a16z’s Crypto Startup School, the firm addresses “Crypto Networks and Why They Matter” and “Blockchain Primitives: Cryptography and Consensus.” ... ( read original story ...)

What's hot in crypto this week? Zilliqa is a Singapore-based blockchain platform launched in 2017. It was the first to use "sharding" technology to solve the common blockchain hur ... ( read original story ...)

11:35 p.m. Japan moves to bring an early end to the state of emergency Thursday in 39 of its 47 prefectures, though greater Tokyo and Osaka will remain on the list of potential coronavirus ... There ... ( read original story ...)

L egend Biotech, a clinical stage oncology biotech being spun-out of GenScript's cell therapy unit, filed on Wednesday with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial publi ... ( read original story ...)

Meanwhile Airbnb just cut 1,900 jobs, 25% of its global workforce. CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky said in a letter to staff that the company anticipates 2020 revenue to be less than 50% of 2019, ... ( read original story ...)

Over the last few weeks all eyes in the crypto world have been glued to the halvening, a nigh-religious moment in the blockchain realm. Every once in a while, the amount of new bitcoin mined — ... ( read original story ...)

TON was the next big cryptocurrency project attached to one of the biggest messaging apps in the world — Telegram — run by Pavel Durov, the expat Russian holed up somewhere between the Caribbean and ... ( read original story ...)

Flipside Crypto, the leading business intelligence firm for cryptocurrency and blockchain organizations and Prysm Group, the leading ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo based wealth management company, Akita Michinoku Capital, has reported that Dada Nexus Ltd., the JD.Com-backed crowd-sourced delivery platform with headquarters in China, has filed for what may ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s government and central bank are united in their determination to stop the country sliding back into a negative cycle of falling prices and stagnation, according to economy minister Yasutoshi ... ( read original story ...)

While the financial press has always been flooded with histories of dodgy dealings in finance, many of the old scams have long since been driven out of the mainstream system. They are, however, alive ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan will do "whatever it can" to mitigate the growing fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Tuesday, warning that a collapse in global activity has had ... ( read original story ...)