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(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Finance chiefs from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging countries will hold a videoconference Saturday to share their recognition of current economic situations hit hard ... ( read original story ...)

The first-ever auction of discarded Self-Defense Forces equipment, including items from a training vessel decommissioned in spring, was held Sunday by an agency affiliated with Japan's Defense ... ( read original story ...)

Edition of ‘Destroy All Humans’ may be the most expensive collector’s edition of a game in 2020. Here’s what your money gets you. ( read original story ...)

There’s always a get-rich scheme in cryptocurrencies. Thousands of investors lost billions of dollars on Bitconnect, a pyramid scheme offering monthly returns of 40% or more that collapsed in 2018 ... ( read original story ...)

Ji Xinhua is walking on clouds. Two months before his 41st birthday, his company UCloud Information Technology overcame the hurdle that had tripped up dozens of larger Chinese companies and driven ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan may have adopted a new standard in deciding when to support stocks, according to Seiichi Suzuki, a market analyst at Tokai Tokyo Research Institute Co. ( read original story ...)

Japan and Britain have agreed not to force their companies to disclose algorithms or set up local data servers, as part of talks aimed at a bilateral trade deal, the Nikkei said on Saturday. A Japan-B ... ( read original story ...)

Dozens of China’s biggest start-ups including the internet search engine Baidu and this newspaper’s owner Alibaba were driven to New York over the past two decades to seek funding. Now, amid the ... ( read original story ...)

Former RuneScape executives plan a series of acquisitions in video games and other parts of the “attention economy,” starting with Ascendant Digital Acquisition, a newly public special purpose ... ( read original story ...)

Olympus' sale of its imaging division could be the beginning of a major 'shake-up' in the Japanese camera industry, according to the latest report from Nikkei Asian Review Deputy Editor, Masamichi ... ( read original story ...)

A new op-ed published by the Deputy Editor of the Nikkei Asian Review in Japan is making waves in the industry today. The article strikes an ominous tone, ... ( read original story ...)

Grayscale Investments LLC generated a lot of buzz when its cryptocurrency trusts attracted more than $900 million -- mostly from institutional investors -- in the second quarter, nearly double its ... ( read original story ...)

Facebook and Wall Street stalwarts including JP Morgan embracing cryptocurrencies, Visa, Mastercard and PayPal are gearing up to drive the next wave of bitcoin and crypto development and ... ( read original story ...)

Three unnamed institutional investors indicated on $89 million worth of units in the offering, and the company may raise an additional $250 million at the closing of an acquisition pursuant to a ... ( read original story ...)

It has been exploring a potential sale or initial public offering (IPO) for the business. The Tokyo-based conglomerate has now gathered interest from Nvidia. The report adds that other potential ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- The world topped 15 million Covid-19 infections. The three worst-hit countries -- the U.S., Brazil and India -- account for nearly half of all confirmed cases globally and more than 40% ... ( read original story ...)