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Verizon to announce $5 billion deal to buy Yahoo on Monday: source
July 25th, 2016
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) will announce an agreement on Monday to buy Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) for about $5 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. The announcement will come before the start of New York trading hours, ...
MasterCard Announces Acquisition of VocaLink
July 22nd, 2016
MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 92.4 percent of VocaLink Holdings Limited for about £700 million (approximately US$920 million), after adjusting for cash and certain other estimated liabilities. VocaLink’s ...
What is going on with Yahoo effort to sell itself
July 21st, 2016
Yahoo making ‘great progress’ on sale. But to what end? The same day CEO Marissa Mayer announces unremarkable earnings, the next — and possibly final — round of bids reportedly comes in. That means the end of Yahoo, as ...
The man behind the world’s biggest online illegal film site arrested
July 21st, 2016
US officials plan to charge the Ukrainian owner of the Web’s “most visited” piracy site, Kickass Torrents. The site distributes $1 billion worth of illegally copied content and is the world’s 70th most popular site. Attorneys for the US ...
A paper trail links online traders to tax havens
July 21st, 2016
A paper trail that runs from Okinawa to Canada and from Israel to Italy and France links some unauthorized online traders on the blacklist of Japan’s financial regulator to offshore companies in tax havens, an analysis of files leaked ...
ZestFinance receives funding from Baidu
July 19th, 2016
ZestFinance announced that it has received a strategic investment from Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU), the leading Chinese language Internet search provider. ZestFinance is a Los Angeles-based company that uses machine learning to transform vast amounts of complex data into credit ...
Brexit, banks fueling bitcoin’s resurgence
July 19th, 2016
The bitcoin renaissance seems to be at hand, with investors using the virtual currency to weather turbulent financial markets and banks striking partnerships to explore the system’s underlying technology. Until mid-May, 1 bitcoin fetched on the order of $400 ...
The head of collapsed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been released on bail
July 18th, 2016
The head of collapsed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been released on bail nearly a year after his arrest on embezzlement charges, according to one of his lawyers. Television footage showed France-born Mark Karpeles, 31, leaving the Tokyo Detention ...
Chinese regulator released that paid online searches will be treated as advertising and to be taxed
July 14th, 2016
The recent regulations issued by China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce on online advertising are likely to dent Alibaba’s and Baidu’s earnings, analysts believe. Baidu Inc is set to announce its second quarter of fiscal year 2016 (2QFY16) ...
Risk On/Risk Off: What Schizophrenic Markets Are Telling Us
July 11th, 2016
These trends cannot be reversed with yet another rate cut or another “whatever it takes” announcement. In the conventional investment perspective, risk-on assets (i.e. investments with higher risks and higher potential returns) such as stocks are on a see-saw ...
