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Qualcomm on Tuesday officially announced its next-generation flagship processor for phones. Dubbed the Snapdragon 865 the processor is still in need of a separate 5G modem to enable 5G instead of an integrated 5G modem built right into the chipset. Traditionally, that means more expensive, power-hungry phones than an integrated solution.However, at the Amazon’s event held in Las Vegas called AWS re:Invent, there were plenty of other solutions. Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg went on to discuss the...

If you are an Android user, you probably have been dealing with a lot of pre-cautious measures aimed at protecting your phone from viruses and bugs. However, there is new trouble in the house – and it won’t erase your contact list. Even worse. It will erase your bank account (or, should we say, erase the money you have). If you have a fully patched Android phone, be warned. Researchers from security firm Promon reported in a post that there is a vulnerability that enables hostile apps to...

In what seems like an about-face, global banking custodian State Street has drastically cut down its Decentralized Ledger Technologies team, as sources indicate. Rather than focus on building a complete DLT ecosystem from scratch which hitherto before now had been the strategy that State Street pursued, the custodian has decided to focus on digital assets which include tokenized stocks and bonds as well cryptocurrencies. Such an approach is to be applied instead of a bottom-up strategy which...

It seems Kuwait’s government could insert at least $1 billion in the initial public offering of Saudi Arabia state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco. Sources familiar with the situation said that the kingdom asked its regional partners to support the share sale valued as high as $2 trillion.Until recently, the Kuwait Investment Authority had been pretty much unwilling to commit significant funds to the IPO. However, the government explained that a stake was in the country’s strategic interest,...

FinAccel, an Asian fin-tech company involved in leveraging deep data analytics across users’ digital footprint in order to automate credit risk scoring and access to credit in Southeast Asia, has announced it raised $90 million in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Asia Growth Fund, jointly established by Mirae Asset and Naver Corp, and Australia-based venture capital firm Square Peg. Among other investors were Singtel Innov8, Telkomsel Indonesia, Cathay Innovation and Kejora...

American multinational investment bank and financial services company Morgan Stanley has changed its rating on stocks from Roku, the on-demand video streaming platform backed by Fox. Even though Roku has had an amazing year and climbed quite explosively in the stock market with 400% year-to-date YTD returns, Morgan Stanley dropped its Roku rating from equal weight to underweight.In a recent note to the company’s investors titled “It’s All Priced In”, Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne,...

On Monday, December 2, there was palpable disappointment in the finance atmosphere as the U.S. stock market’s major indexes, including Dow, saw a sharp fall, the largest 24-hour loss in the last eight weeks. The loss has left quite a number of investors rattled as some believe that it might be an important factor in deciding how well or poorly the general stock market will end 2019.For specifics, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) ended the day at 27,783.04 points, losing 268.37, a 0.9%...

Over the last ten years or so, the American stock market has been performing quite impressively, with continuous rises in its general bull run. Since 2009, companies – notwithstanding price drops over smaller periods – have been doing better with time, on average. German multinational investment and financial services firm Deutsche Bank AG has now revealed the driving factor behind this decade-long bull run.According to a tweet from market analyst Holger Zschaepitz with German media company...

Tribe Accelerator, that is a blockchain accelerator backed by the Singaporean government, has raised 25 million Singaporean dollars which is roughly about $16 million for startups that are presented on its platform. Sources indicate that the accelerator revealed this in a press release yesterday and that about $28 million in total has been raised so far for startups that employ blockchain technology to revolve issues that the world currently faces. The accelerator further revealed that the...

“By working with Binance X [the company’s developer network] and Launchpad, DappReview will bring in more talented Dapp developers and assist promising Dapp projects on fund-raising. A lot more exciting synergies with Trust Wallet, Binance Research, etc. DappReview will partner with the public chains and protocols in the Dapp space through Binance’s ecosystem.”Niu further added that by Q1 2020, DappReview is planning to release a new set of analytical tools and products. Besides, this...