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Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, during an interview on an episode of Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein in New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug 17, 2022. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S.,
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In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A video grab taken from a video posted on the Twitter account of billionaire Tesla chief Elon Musk on October 26, 2022 shows himself carrying a sink as he enters the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Elon Musk changed his Twitter profile to “Chief Twit”
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Binance is backing out of its plans to acquire FTX, the company said Wednesday, leaving Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire on the verge of collapse. The reversal comes one day after Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced that the world’s largest cryptocurrency firm had reached a non-binding deal to buy FTX’s non-U.S. businesses for an undisclosed amount, rescuing the
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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency firm, has reached a deal with Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX to buy the rival crypto exchange for an undisclosed amount, rescuing the company from a liquidity crisis. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted Tuesday morning that “there is a significant liquidity crunch” at FTX and that after FTX asked for Binance’s help,
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Aerial view of the seafront Manara district near downtown Beirut. Bilwander | Getty Images When Georgio Abou Gebrael first heard about bitcoin in 2016, it sounded like a scam. But by 2019, as Lebanon plunged into a financial crisis following decades of expensive wars and bad spending decisions, a decentralized and borderless digital currency operating
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Cat Clifford, CNBC climate tech and innovation reporter, at Helion Energy on October 20. Photo taken by Jessie Barton, communications for Helion Energy, with Cat Clifford’s camera. On Thursday, October 20, I took a reporting trip to Everett, Wash., to visit Helion Energy, a fusion startup that has raised raised nearly $600 million from a
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Stripe co-founder and CEO, Patrick Collison Manuel Blondeau | Getty Images Online payments giant Stripe is laying off roughly 14% of its staff, CEO Patrick Collison wrote in a memo to staff Thursday. In the memo, Collison said the cuts were necessary amid rising inflation, fears of a looming recession, higher interest rates, energy shocks,
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In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Oct. 5, 2021. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is pausing hiring for roles in its corporate workforce, the company announced in a memo to staff Thursday. The company had already
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In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple Inc supplier Foxconn reported that it beat its April-June net profit expectations. Photo by Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg via Getty Images An industrial park in China that is home to the world’s largest assembly plant for Apple‘s iPhones has been ordered to complete a seven-day Covid lockdown,
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