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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...

Bakkt, the physically-backed Bitcoin Futures contracts company recently confirmed that they are testing their consumer app for retail crypto traders. Allegedly dubbed Bakkt Pay, the app, they said they plan to increase the width of their area of services to a higher level. That includes focusing on putting the retail traders besides institution investors who are already the users of the Bakkt services in its futures trading.BREAKING!Bakkt testing consumer app in preparation for imminent lauch...

It seems China finally decided to cut some ties to the world’s largest reserve currency – United States dollar, at least if it’s to believe the analysts’ prognoses.The biggest and most obvious reason is the ongoing trade war between the two countries said ANZ Research in their recent report. US delisting Chinese companies’ stocks from its market – surely hasn’t helped as well. That is why, ANZ predicts, Beijing decided to diversify its foreign exchange reserves into other currencies as...

After a poor drag down last week, the overall cryptocurrency market is showing signs of mild recovery today. While the crypto markets are eyeing a northward journey, Bitcoin still looks hesitant to take the lead.Last week, Bitcoin took a hit as the BTC price first slipped below $9000 and later even below its crucial support at $8700. Now, at press time, Bitcoin is trading at $8641.61 with a market cap of $156 billion. While Bitcoin has been showing a mild response to the market recovery, some...

As an automobile, Ford’s Mach-E comes with the style, logo, and design of the famous Mustang but everything else under the hood makes it seem more like a Tesla or another electric vehicle. With a range of 210- 300 miles at full charge and accelerations that range from beating high-end sports cars to mid-level sedans, the first set of Mach-Es will be available in late 2020 to the spring of 2021.Although pricey with the cheapest one starting at $43, 895 which is a little bit more expensive than...

Ever since Facebook announced its Libra project in June 2019, it has been knocking the doors of regulators for approval. Over the last few months, the social media giant had a tough time dealing with global regulatory authorities.But this has not deterred Facebook from furthering its development for its native cryptocurrency Project Libra. Last week, the Libra Association released a developer update. The update announcement mentioned that the Libra Project is running for five months and...

Stellar lumen price failed to settle above the $0.0800 and $0.0820 resistances against the US Dollar.XLM price is currently declining and it is now trading well below the $0.0750 level.There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.0730 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken).The pair remains at a risk of more downsides towards the key $0.0650 support area.Stellar lumen price is currently trimming gains against the US Dollar and bitcoin. XLM price could continue to...

Ripple price is currently declining and trading well below $0.2700 against the US dollar.The price is likely to continue lower and it may even test the $0.2420 support area.There is a major declining channel forming with resistance near $0.2635 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex).The price could only start a decent recovery once it settles above the $0.2760 resistance area.Ripple price is following a downtrend below the $0.2760 support against the US Dollar....

At press time, bitcoin is trading for just over $8,400.Bitcoin: Bearish All Over Again?This figure marks a drop of roughly $700 over the past few days. The currency is incurring some very strange behavior as of late, though there doesn’t seem to be much of an explanation regarding why this behavior is happening.Let’s start off with the basics. To do this, we must go back to the end of October, when bitcoin was really trapped in a rut following the disappointing opening of Bakkt and the Mark...

Jed McCaleb is the co-founder and CTO of Stellar, a top 20 cryptocurrency and primary competitor to bitcoin. In a recent interview, McCaleb explains how he got his start in the crypto industry, and what it was about the space that attracted him.MCCaleb: I was Interested in BTC Because It Was a DisruptorMcCaleb comments that he’s fond of crypto in that it works to defy and disrupt traditional finance, which he says doesn’t always work for everyone. Describing his feelings when he first found...