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Multibillion-dollar luxury brands owner LVMH has reached a deal to acquire Tiffany & Co for $16.5 billion. Sources indicate that the luxury brand owner has finally gained the acceptance of this present deal for acquisition after both boards have approved it.LVMH is known globally for ownership of some of the world’s most luxurious brands which include Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, and Moët & Chandon among 75 others commonly referred to as the “Maisons” or houses. LVMH has further...

India’s digital payments company Paytm said it got new funding from its shareholders but also some new investors. SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund, Ant Financial and Discovery Capital will, therefore, together with new investors advised by T. Rowe Price Group Inc. fund Paytm to get it in front of its competitors as the country’s finance sector is slightly beginning to grill.From Ant Financial they said they have been searching for investment opportunities in Southeast Asia in order to...

There are rumors that the bank and stock brokerage company The Charles Schwab Corp. is negotiating a purchase of online broker TD Ameritrade. The two companies are the largest publicly-traded discount brokers in the United States but it is interesting to see what would this merger mean for the cryptocurrency trading.But, let’s start from the beginning. Nebraskan TD Ameritrade has been crypto-friendly for a longer time now – meaning, its clients had the possibility to trade Bitcoin futures...

LG CNS, the global IT service company owned by LG Corporation that enables digital innovation for customers through emerging IT technology, has established a strategic partnership with Ground X, the blockchain subsidiary of Korea’s largest mobile platform Kakao. Within the collaboration, the companies will work on developing various blockchain solutions and finding new ways for using the distributed ledger technology.The agreement has been signed at LG CNS headquarters located at LG Science...

Coinspeaker PayPal Announces Acquisition of Honey Science Corporation PayPal has announced that they reached an agreement for acquiring Honey, the money-saving browser extension and app. PayPal Announces Acquisition of Honey Science Corporation Continue reading at Coinspeaker

XRP falls by 5.31% to hit $0.25 indicating weakness and trading apathy, even when Ripple Labs Inc has added another feather to its cap by adding a new remittance service on RippleNet. SBI Ripple Asia and SBI Remit, which is a financial services company in Japan, are set to introduce a new remittance that will enable customers to transfer money between Japan and Vietnam. The new service is set to operate using RippleNet, and the Vietnamese baking giant TP Bank (Tien Phong Commercial Joint...

Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company SoftBank has announced its decision to unite its search engine Yahoo Japan with a popular chatting app Line owned by Naver Corp. Within the agreement, Yahoo Japan and Line will merge and create a joint business to develop new opportunities for protecting themselves against competitors.According to the announcement, SoftBank and Naver will each hold 50% of a new holding company that will operate both Line and Z Holdings (Yahoo Japan’s...

According to a recent Bloomberg story citing people familiar with the situation, an unconfirmed partnership in the global automobile industry is in the offing. Current reports have it that the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) parent company Tata Group has made decisive moves seeking partnerships with German multinational BMW AG, and China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co.Apparently, Tata Group has reached out to these two major firms, but is also looking to find more partners and might seal...

Photo: ShutterstockJapanese business and financial services company SBI Holdings Inc. has announced its decision to form a capital and business alliance with Fukushima Bank, to achieve several goals including increasing profitability for financial institutions in general, as well as improving local customer assets and productivity of related companies. The alliance will also see Fukushima Bank incorporating MoneyTap payment app, which is powered by Ripple.The general goal of improving...

In what can turn out to be one of the biggest takeovers, Xerox has put forward a cash-and-stock offer for computing giant Hewlett Packard. The latest report states that both companies are looking to cut costs and this merger can help them save around $2 billion in expenses.Xerox, which has specialized over the years in making printers and copiers, has an $8.5 billion market cap. This is one-third of the market cap of HP, currently valued at $27 billion. It is unclear how Xerox plans to go...