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Wall Street Ends Down Sharply, Hit by Apple and China Worries

U.S. stocks ended sharply lower on Monday after protests in major Chinese cities against strict COVID-19 policies sparked concerns about economic growth, while Apple Inc slid on worries about a hit to iPhone production. Shares of the Cupertino, California tech giant lost 2.6 percent and weighed heavily on the benchmark S&P 500 index as worker […]

The Tech Bubble Bursting and Its Consequences

People worry that the ‘tech bubble‘ will likely burst right in front of them. Rightfully so.  This year, tech shares are down more than 30 percent, and private firms are experiencing confidence-shattering down rounds.  In contrast, cryptocurrency exchanges like Celsius declare bankruptcy as prices of cryptocurrencies plummet. And FTX is taking the whole crypto market […]

U.S. House Committee to Hold Hearing on Collapse of Ftx

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee said on Wednesday it plans to hold a hearing in December to investigate the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The committee said it expects to hear from the companies and individuals involved, including FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, Alameda Research, Binance, FTX and related entities, among others. “The fall of […]

Web3, 5G, and the Metaverse: The Underlying Technology 

A new internet age where content is consumed through intuitive 3D surroundings rather than 2D displays appears to have begun with the development of strong 5G networks, new XR gadgets, and appealing metaverse apps. We will discuss the relationship between Web3, 5G, and the Metaverse below.  Before we dive into the meat of the subject, […]

Special Report-Ftx’s Bankman-Fried Begged for a Rescue Even as He Revealed Huge Holes in Firm’s Books

As customers withdrew billions of dollars from crypto exchange FTX one frantic Sunday this month, founder Sam Bankman-Fried worked the phones in a futile bid to raise $7 billion in emergency funds. Hunkered in his Bahamas apartment, Bankman-Fried toiled through the night, calling some of the world’s biggest investors, including Sequoia Capital, Apollo Global Management […]

Binance Halts FTT Deposits, CEO Says

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has stopped accepting deposits of FTX’s FTT token on its platform, its chief executive Changpeng Zhao said on Sunday, urging other rival exchanges to do the same. FTX, which filed for bankruptcy on Friday, was engulfed in more chaos on Saturday when the crypto exchange said it had detected unauthorized access and […]

Digesting the FTX News

The news of the FTX crash is spreading like fire. FTX is on the brink of total collapse amid liquidity concerts and rumors of misused funds surfacing. These rumors became more concrete when a mass volume of investor withdrawals followed them. FTT, the native token of FTX, tanked. The plummet in prices affected other coins […]

FTX Looks for $9.4 Billion in Rescue Funds, Bahamas Freezes Some Assets

FTX is scrambling to raise about $9.4 billion from investors and rivals, a source said on Thursday, as Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried urgently seeks to save the cryptocurrency exchange that has been buffeted by a rush of customer withdrawals. Bankman-Fried has discussed raising $1 billion each from Justin Sun, the founder of crypto token Tron, […]

Green Earth Technologies and Their Economic Impact

Green earth technologies have been around for the past two decades. The journey towards a greener and safer tomorrow has begun way before the recent traction. Recent global events have added even more urgency to the matter. In 2019 the volume of investment in green tech capped at almost 9 billion dollars. By 2027 it […]

Indonesia Plans to Tighten Oversight of Crypto Market, Task Ojk With Regulation

Indonesia plans to move the regulation, supervision and oversight of cryptocurrency investments to the Financial Service Authority (OJK) to better protect investors, its finance minister said on Thursday. Currently, the Trade Ministry and the Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency jointly oversee cryptocurrency in Southeast Asia’s largest economy, where there has been a boom in such […]