SINGAPORE: Bitcoin rose to a record high above $94,000 as a report that Donald Trump’s social media company was in talks to buy crypto trading firm Bakkt added to hopes of a cryptocurrency-friendly regime under the incoming Trump administration. Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, has more than doubled this year. It was last […]
The Comcast NBC logo is shown on a building in Los Angeles, California, June 13, 2018. Mike Blake | Reuters Comcast is moving forward with the spinoff of its cable network channels, people familiar with the matter told CNBC on Tuesday. The separation is expected to take about a year, and an announcement from the […]
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Reuters Donald Trump has named investor Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of his transition team, to lead the US commerce department. In his announcement, Trump said Lutnick, the chief executive of financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald, would spearhead the administration’s “tariff and trade agenda”. Lutnick had also been in the running for treasury secretary, a more high-profile […]
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Pakistan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday signed a $500 million loan agreement for the Climate and Disaster Resilience Enhancement Programme (CDREP) to boost the country’s perseverance against catastrophes triggered by natural hazards and the impacts of environmental crises. The programme aims to foster Pakistan’s institutional capacity for planning, preparedness, and response. It […]
Gold prices surged by Rs 600, reaching Rs 78,050 per 10 grams in the national capital on Tuesday, driven by a strong trend in the global market, according to the All India Sarafa Association.The precious metal, with a purity of 99.9 percent, closed at Rs 77,450 per 10 grams on Monday, as increased purchasing by […]
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New Delhi: The provisional payroll data of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) revealed that 20.58 lakh new employees have been added to the workforce in September. As per a statement by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, as many as 23,043 new establishments have been brought under the social security ambit of the ESI Scheme […]
Instagram is testing a new feature which allows people to completely remove all the content being recommended to them. Its “reset” tool – which it says will be available globally “soon” – effectively cleanses a user’s feed of content suggested by the site’s algorithm, though Instagram says recommendations will “start to personalise again over time.” […]
