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Jeff Bezos Loses ‘the World’s Richest Man’ Title to Bill Gates as Amazon Stock Falls

Amazon Inc. stock is getting battered following a downbeat earnings report.The company announced on Thursday its third-quarter net income fell to $2.1 billion on earnings per share of $4.23, which represents a pretty big fall of around 26% year over year and worse than analysts had expected.During the quarter that ended September 30, the company’s revenue rose to $70 billion, up 24% YoY but it also wasn’t enough to meet the previous estimates. At the same time, Amazon reported its cloud...

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Blizzard Entertainment is Set to Release the Latest Diablo Game

When it comes to the world of fantasy, we all know that no one cuts it like the guys at Blizzard Entertainment that is so far for now. At their BlizzCon 2019, the much-awaited Diablo 4 is expected to be announced after the free spoiler Diablo Immortal game that was released last year at the BlizzCon 2018. The disappointment indicated by the many fans of Blizzard Entertainment after the game didn’t show up in Google’s Playstore or the iOS store has led many to believe that Blizzard...

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Crypto Capital President Arrested for Alleged Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering

The president of the crypto services company, Crypto Capital, has been arrested by authorities in Poland for his alleged involvement in the crime. Ivan Manuel Molina Lee was recently picked up by Polish police under the accusation that he is deeply involved in several illegal activities including being a member of an international drug dealing cartel as well as money laundering accusations which were allegedly done by him using Bitfinex.According to local Polish media platform RMF24, Molina...

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Binance Launches Support for Nigerian Naira in Partnership with Flutterwave

Photo: Binance / TwitterBinance, easily the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platform, has announced today that it has opened deposits for users in Nigeria, to easily trade cryptocurrencies, using the Nigerian Naira (NGN). Binance has stated that deposits are immediately open for users to directly use the NGN to buy and sell select digital assets. This new feature was made possible through a partnership with the Nigerian payment technology company, Flutterwave.According to an...

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CNN Makes Its Own Aggregation Service to Compete with Apple News+

The AT&T-backed CNN is allegedly working to found its own news aggregation service that allegedly would be something similar as is Apple News and Apple News+.The project dubbed “NewsCo” will compete with the already existing Facebook‘s and Apple’s domination by offering its consumers one more venue where they can get all possible information both local and global, together with its existing web and broadcast operations.For now, twelve engineers and other executives are working on this...

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PayPal Reports 19% Growth with $4.38 Billion Revenue in 2019 Third Quarter

PayPal Holdings Inc. has announced its earned figures in its quarterly report for the third quarter, showing a notable increase in the company’s volume of total payment. According to its report, the company pulled in a $4.38 billion revenue, representing a 19% increase.Furthermore, the company’s earnings per share also increased, going higher than the proposed estimate by market analysts. Experts had estimated a 52 cents per share earnings but PayPal surpassed this, hitting 61 cents which is...

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Facebook is Set to Launch News Tab Featuring Premium Content

In what has been seen by many to be a gutsy move Facebook is set to create a separate tab on users’ timelines for news which will be driven by content from major news organizations. Sources indicate that as early as tomorrow the tab will be available on users’ timelines and that the news will come from high authority websites that are owned by major news organizations.This new initiative is just what Mark Zuckerberg previewed during his testimony. “Later in this week we actually have a big...

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Revolut Officially Begins Business in Singapore after Long Beta Testing Period

Revolut, the popular fintech startup and challenger bank based in London, has announced that it will be officially expanding its services to Singapore, allowing citizens to enjoy numerous options already being used by the company’s customers in Europe. This news follows a long period of beta testing in Singapore where Revolut already has about 30,000 customers.Now, all residents in Singapore can easily open an account online and take advantage of Revolut’s travel debit card which now supports...

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Amazon Acquires Health Navigator to Increase Its Share on Health Care Market

American retail giant Amazon has made a new acquisition: the company purchased Health Navigator, a company focused on developing APIs for online health services and providing evidence-based digital health information content. The sum of the deal is not yet clear.According to Amazon, Health Navigator will join the membership of the Amazon Care group, a pilot healthcare service program for Amazon employees launched in September that delivers prescriptions with remotely communicated treatment...

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Bitcoin Price Lost $500 within Minutes to Settle Below $7,500

Photo: Tim Reckmann / FlickrBitcoin had experienced low volatility consolidation in recent weeks. However, the consolidation phase was ended abruptly with a violent drop of almost 10% on October 23 to fall near a 5-month low. At 12:50 UTC, the flagship cryptocurrency plunged by around $500 in 15 minutes to hit a low of $7,500.Bitcoin price reached the lowest level since June 10 as recorded by Bitstamp. After showing mild signs of an upward trend above $8,000, the leading digital token...

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