Month: June 2019

Bitcoin rose above $9,000 over the weekend, taking cumulative year-to-date gains to more than 150 percent. The leading cryptocurrency by market value clocked a 13-month high of $9,391 on Bitstamp on Sunday and was last seen trading at $9,200, representing 22 percent gains on last Monday’s low of $7,524. Cryptocurrency market experts and investors are
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Amid a continuing population surge, local government sales tax allocations in Texas for June rose more than 10% over the same month last year to $782.1 million, state Comptroller Glenn Hegar said. Cities, counties and special districts such as hospital districts and municipal utility districts rely on sales taxes along with property taxes for their
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Russian hackers, not North Korean, may be the bad actors behind probably the biggest ever theft from a cryptocurrency exchange. Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reports Monday that virus variants known to be linked to Russian hackers have been found on employee computers at the Tokyo-based Coincheck exchange. Coincheck suffered a breach in January 2018 that resulted
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony to unveil a sign for a new community named after U.S. President Donald Trump, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights June 16, 2019. REUTERS/Ammar Awad Ammar Awad | Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday sent President Donald Trump a token of his gratitude for supporting
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Michigan’s attorney general dismissed all pending criminal cases related to the Flint water crisis, two of which were against former state-appointed city emergency managers. Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and the special prosecutor, Kym Worthy, made the announcement Thursday that all pending criminal cases brought by the former Office of Special Counsel had been dismissed without
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According to French financial publication Les Échos, software giant Ubisoft is exploring potential blockchain applications in gaming. The move to blockchain is said to give the gaming firm a competitive edge in the gaming world. Ubisoft Blockchain Applications in Gaming Ubisoft has allegedly been exploring blockchain applications for months under the radar. And now it has
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America should finish a job it started more than four decades ago: rebuild China. Help Beijing open up its economy to the rest of the world and bring prosperity to its people, that is. There was time China was a closed economy, experimenting with different socialist roads to prosperity. That was back in the 1950s,
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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan is paying the price for misjudging President Donald Trump‘s resolve to “bring the Chinese to their knees,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. Trump feels he has to “sacrifice Broadcom on the alter of Huawei” to humble China in trade negotiations, Cramer argued. Last year, Broadcom received about $900 million in revenue
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Binance.com, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is revamping its internal policies and cracking down on wayward users. The Malta-based exchange announced Friday morning that it was reviewing user accounts to ensure they follow Binance’s terms of use and know-your-customer (KYC) procedures and will remove deposit and trading permissions for anyone in violation of its policies.
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Actor/producer Brad Pitt accepts the PGA Visionary Award during the 26th Annual Producers Guild Of America Awards last January in Los Angeles. Getty Images Hollywood star Brad Pitt, Steve Job’s widow Laurene Powell Jobs and UK-based stock-picker Neil Woodford are all reportedly investing in a little known “cold fusion company,” the Financial Times said on
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CHICAGO — Local Illinois governments came out on the winning side in the new state budget, capital package, gambling expansion, and legalization of recreational cannabis adopted during a whirlwind 2019 spring legislative session. That’s the general assessment from Moody’s Investors Service, though it comes with some caveats, as the rating company calls gambling and cannabis-related
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Opacity focuses on privacy, security, and a familiar user experience. SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 5, 2019 — Opacity Storage, a cryptographic file storage company, today announced the release of Opacity v1.0. The new product provides anonymous online file storage utilizing a crypto token payment system and a user friendly interface. No personal data such as
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