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While it may sound like a story out of the movies or motivational books that many people read today, the story of Bom Kim who is the founder of Coupang, a $9 billion electronic commerce company has been inspiring through an through. Coupang has been described by many to be South Korea’s “Amazon”, an appellation that hasn’t been accorded to any other company; at least not yet. Coupang has been one of those companies that have had a history of disruption and reinvention which has helped make it...

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...

ADA price started a fresh decline after it failed to surpass the $0.0420 resistance against the US Dollar.The price is currently declining and trading below the $0.0400 support area.There is a descending channel forming with resistance near $0.0375 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken).The price is likely to accelerate losses below the $0.0355 and $0.0350 support levels in the near term.Cardano price is following a downtrend against the US Dollar and bitcoin. ADA price could continue to...

Bitcoin price is declining and it is now trading well below $7,500 against the US Dollar.The price is likely to extend its decline towards the $7,040 support area.There is a contracting triangle forming with resistance near $7,280 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair could bounce back unless there is no daily close below $7,040 and $7,000.Bitcoin price is showing bearish signs below $7,300 against the US Dollar. BTC is under pressure, but it might hold...

Recently, Live Bitcoin News published a story regarding Virgil Griffith, a man who last April, traveled to North Korea despite U.S. regulatory scrutiny to deliver a blockchain seminar.Griffith Has a Few DefendersDuring the lecture, it is believed that Griffith may have provided cryptocurrency knowledge to listeners regarding how they could potentially utilize both cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to override U.S. sanctions. This didn’t sit well with the American government, and...

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,...

According to one source, the bitcoin sell-off is showing no signs of calming down, but this might not necessarily affect the currency in a negative way.Will Bitcoin Survive the Sell-Off?As we all remember, bitcoin has had a very mixed two months in both October and November. Things ultimately started in late September when Bakkt – the institutional crypto trading platform owned and governed by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – made its official debut on September 23. Despite nearly a year...

The month of December has just started and already we’re off to a good start. Bitcoin – the world’s largest and most prominent cryptocurrency by market cap – has seemingly jumped in price by another $100, leaving many enthusiasts to wonder if perhaps the currency is about to enter another bull run.December Has Often Been Good to BitcoinOf course, to assume this means anything would be a mistake. Bitcoin can go up just as easily as it can go down. We all witnessed that over the past few...

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...