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By Samuel Indyk and Brigid Riley LONDON (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar was a touch softer on Wednesday, as traders kept their powder dry ahead of the first leg of congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the European Central Bank’s policy announcement on Thursday. Meanwhile, bitcoin was picking up a head of steam again, although it stayed below the record high reached the day before. The absence of major catalysts kept the dollar under pressure, having slipped on Tuesday… Source link

After briefly halting sales of its 6-Series and 5-Series Google TVs due to sluggish, buggy software, TCL this evening announced that the TVs are back. “Recent software updates have allowed us to make significant improvements on the stability and speed of the TCL televisions featuring Google TV,” spokesperson Rachelle Parks said by email. “With these updates, this product now represents the powerful performance that TCL and Google believe is the future of TV.” The Google TVs… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin’s selloff accelerated Monday, pushing it closer to $30,000 once again. The world’s largest digital coin, down as much as 3.3% at one point during the session, continues to ebb closer to the pivotal round-number level, trading around $30,628 as of 9:41 a.m. in New York. Chartists are watching to see if it breaks below that support, which could exacerbate its decline and set it up for its lowest close since the start of the year. The retreat comes amid a broader… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7… Source link

Bloomberg Inside the Race to Avert Disaster at China’s Biggest ‘Bad Bank’ (Bloomberg) — It was past 9 p.m. on Financial Street in Beijing by the time the figure inside Huarong Tower there picked up an inkbrush and, with practiced strokes, began to set characters to paper.Another trying workday was ending for Wang Zhanfeng, corporate chairman, Chinese Communist Party functionary—and, less happily, replacement for a man who very recently had been executed.On this April night, Wang was… Source link