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The Central American country plans to use bitcoin as a parallel legal tender alongside the US dollar, which has also been touted as a remittance currency for Salvadorans overseas. Photo: Jose Cabezas/Reuters The price of Bitcoin (BTC-USD) rose for a third consecutive day on Friday after El Salvador revealed that it would officiate the cryptocurrency as legal tender on 7 September. The Central American country plans to use bitcoin as a parallel legal tender alongside the US dollar, which has… Source link

A sign is seen at the entrance to the Google retail store in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, U.S., June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton BRUSSELS, June 18 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google could face its biggest regulatory threat, with EU antitrust regulators set to open a formal investigation into its lucrative digital advertising business before the end of the year, said people familiar with the matter. It would mark a new front by the EU competition enforcer against… Source link

UFC president Dana White gave a hearty thumbs up Wednesday to Jon Jones’ announcement that he’d hired former Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer as his new adviser. Schaefer was brought on board to help facilitate a bout between Jones and heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou. White, though, said that if Ngannou-Jones happens, it will be down the road. He said Ngannou will make the first defense of his heavyweight title against Derrick Lewis in Houston, likely in August. But White… Source link

Yahoo Sports will keep you updated nightly on the NBA playoff race during the last two weeks of the regular season. Check back daily for the latest movement in the standings, what to watch for and teams securing their 2020-21 playoff berths. Sunday’s final standings Eastern Conference 1. Philadelphia 76ers (49-23) 2. Brooklyn Nets (48-24, 1 GB) 3. Milwaukee Bucks (46-26, 2 GB) 4. New York Knicks (40-31, 8 GB) 5. Atlanta Hawks (40-31, 8 GB) 6. Miami Heat (40-32, 9 GB) Play-in tournament 7. Boston… Source link

Google is going to start enrolling all of its users in two-step verification, if they haven’t set it up already. Will it come as a shock to some? Sure. But that’s fine; the surprise will fade away, leaving accounts that are much more secure than they were previously, especially for those people who use easy-to-guess passwords or, worse, reuse the same passwords for all of their services. But why wait? There’s no reason you can’t start using Google’s two-step verification today…. Source link

Bloomberg As Sanjeev Gupta Rose From Trader to Tycoon, Several Banks Backed Away (Bloomberg) — British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta’s companies seemed to be prospering until his main lender, Greensill Capital, imploded last month. But long before Greensill collapsed, several banks had cut off the commodity trading business of Gupta’s Liberty House Group.Four banks stopped working with Gupta’s commodity trading business, starting in 2016, after they became concerned about what they… Source link

Bloomberg TikTok Founder’s $60 Billion Fortune Places Him Among The World’s Richest People (Bloomberg) — Just last year, the world’s most valuable startup, ByteDance Ltd., was being squeezed from all sides.The Trump administration wanted the Chinese firm, which owns the ubiquitous TikTok video-sharing platform, to get rid of assets. Beijing was cracking down on tech businesses, and India blacklisted some of its social-media apps.For all the obstacles, ByteDance kept growing. Now its… Source link

By Echo Wang    NEW YORK, April 13 (Reuters) – Nasdaq on Tuesday set a reference price of $250 per share for Coinbase Global Inc , projecting a value for the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange at $49.19 billion ahead of its landmark stock market debut on Wednesday.    The reference price is not an offering price for investors to purchase shares, but rather a benchmark for performance when the stock starts trading the exchange on Wednesday.    Coinbase shares are set to start trading… Source link

Google intends to set up a data center in Israel for its cloud computing services, which may entail an outlay of hundreds of millions of dollars, Haaretz reported. Google could establish its data center in the nation as a regional hub, which would match plans from firms such as Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon, Haaretz said. The potential investment would leverage a planned… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Global traders are bracing for what’s shaping up to be one of the most anticipated opens for U.S. equities in months following an extraordinary $20 billion wave of block trades Friday that rattled investors worldwide. Archegos Capital Management LLC — the family office of Bill Hwang — was behind the sales, dumping shares of Chinese tech giants and U.S. media conglomerates, according to two people directly familiar with the trades. While some of the stocks targeted in the… Source link