
The ‘Elaborate and Sophisticated’ Fraud of Wirecard
German financial services giant Wirecard crashed after the company acknowledged €1.9 billion on its balance sheets never existed
German financial services giant Wirecard crashed after the company acknowledged €1.9 billion on its balance sheets never existed
The number of blockchain initiatives is growing. According to Statista, the global blockchain market will grow from $3bn in 2020 to $39.7bn in 2025.
Blockchain tech companies and cryptocurrency exchange are not the niche reality we have learned to know in the past years.
Recent investigations led experts to think that the one of the greatest heist in history – the theft of around US$534 million worth of New Economic Movement (NEM) cryptocoins – might be linked to Russian hackers, instead of North Korean ones as previously suspected.
Egypt has loosened its grip on cryptocurrencies. A ban issued in January 2018 by the current Grand Mufti, Shawki Allam, has now been lifted.
On May 2, the Wall Street Journal reported that social media giant Facebook had recruited financial firms and merchants to build its own cryptocurrency. On the same day, Libra Networks was registered in Geneva, Switzerland.
If there’s one only thing that discourage companies and retailers to implement crypto-based payments for their products is the extreme volatile nature of cryptocurrencies.
In 2017, SoftBank’s Vision Fund was established with $100 bn to invest in emerging technologies, such as: AI, robotics and the Internet of Things.
American cable company Comcast wins bid for sky to beat out offer from Rupert Murdoch’s Fox.
The Japanese game giant is trying to crack down on people using virtually emulated retro games distributed online in a morally gray area of copyright law.
Published this morning, Samsung’s profits for the second quarter ended June 30, 2018 see the companies streak of record breaking profits come to an end.