b Trump Plans To Strengthen Crypto Policy With Dedicated Advisor And Presidential Council | Bitcoinist.com By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:18:41 GMT President-elect Donald Trump is poised to reshape the US government’s approach to crypto, actively seeking candidates with industry-friendly views for key regulatory positions. According to the Washington Post, as part of his strategy to establish the United States as the “crypto capital of the… Full Article
b Early Black Friday apparel sales are live — shop the 15 best sales from Patagonia, Carhartt, Ugg and more By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:18:45 GMT Shopping for clothing is one of my favorite past times — and with all the early Black Friday apparel sales happening now, it's starting to feel like Christmas morning! Apparel and shoes are seeing some of the biggest markdowns with popular brands like Lululemon, Nike, Adidas, Patagonia and more… Full Article
b Just Eat Takeaway sells US unit Grubhub for $650 mln By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:18 GMT Europe's biggest meal delivery firm Just Eat Takeaway said on Wednesday it struck a deal to sell its U.S. unit Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million. Full Article
b Vietnam Airlines to request bids for 50 narrowbody jets next year By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:19:03 GMT BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (Reuters) -- Vietnam Airlines will issue a request for proposal to aircraft manufacturers next year to purchase 50 narrowbody jets, its CEO said on Wednesday. The carrier last year signed a provisional deal with Boeing BA for 50 737 MAX planes that has yet to be… Full Article
b US prohibits airlines from flying to Haiti after planes were shot by gangs By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:27 GMT US prohibits airlines from flying to Haiti after planes were shot by gangs PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Federal Aviation Administration prohibited U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot three planes and the United Nations also Tuesday temporarily suspended flights to… Full Article
b Bulgarian president supports net zero carbon target in Baku By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:49 GMT Bulgarian President Rumen Radev spoke about the threat of climate change at the COP29 climate summit in Baku on Tuesday, where he backed a net zero target, admitting that just 10 years ago, he would have thought the goal was incompatible with competitiveness. The UN summit in Baku runs from 11 to… Full Article
b Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Trims Nintendo Stake Again By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:33 GMT Full Article
b Grubhub reportedly in talks to be acquired by Marc Lore’s Wonder startup By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:16 GMT The European company had acquired Grubhub in 2020 in an all-stock deal for $7.8 billion, creating the world’s largest food delivery company outside China at the time. A deal for Grubhub could be finalized imminently, assuming the talks do not fall apart, the report said, adding that Grubhub is… Full Article
b Just Eat Takeaway sells US unit Grubhub for $650 million By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:42 GMT In This Article: (Reuters) - Europe's biggest meal delivery firm Just Eat Takeaway said on Wednesday it struck a deal to sell its U.S. unit Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million. (Reporting by Michal Aleksandrowicz; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman) Full Article
b Mizuho Financial Group to buy 15% of Rakuten Card for $1 bln By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:28 GMT Japan's Mizuho Financial Group will take a 15% stake in Rakuten Group subsidiary Rakuten Card for 165 billion yen ($1.06 billion) in a further deepening of the two companies' strategic alliance, they said on Wednesday. Full Article
b ‘Fart blaster’ tops Christmas toy wishlist as experts predict record sales By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:33 GMT Despicable Me 4 tie-in smells more like popcorn while a waddling duck and an interactive pet monkey also feature A “fart blaster” with a repertoire of 15 sounds that blasts “fog fart rings” and a waddling mother duck are among the toys destined to appear on Christmas lists as experts predict a… Full Article
b Web Summit: Chess Grandmaster Hans Niemann to face global opponents advised by AI By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:27 GMT Hans Niemann is gearing up to play tens of thousands of players simultaneously at Web Summit. The chess world will try and break a new record at the Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon this week when Grandmaster Hans Niemann competes online against what he hopes will be tens of thousands of… Full Article
b COP29 host Azerbaijan hits out at West in defence of oil and gas By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:21 GMT President Ilham Aliyev described his country as a victim of a "well-orchestrated campaign of slander and blackmail". Full Article
b Elon Musk wades into Italian political drama over Albanian migrant deal By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:39 GMT In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about new polls showing growing support for Czechia's populist Motorists party, billionaire Elon Musk slamming Italian judges in row with Meloni, and so much more. Full Article
b Australia plans to ban social media for under 16s — and experts have called it a ‘momentous step’ By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:24 GMT One expert says Australia is "on the verge of reclaiming childhood after it had been stolen for 15 years." Full Article
b US Climate Official Tells COP29 Oil Boom Aids Energy Transition By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:20 GMT Full Article
b Former Walmart Executive’s Startup Is Near Deal to Buy Grubhub By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:12 GMT Full Article
b Bitcoin pushes past $90K amid meteoric 24-hour rally By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:30 GMT Full Article
b teardown: the SSD module is proprietary but replaceable, modular front ports, and the M4 Pro model has a beefier cooling rig than the M4 model By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:32 GMT It shouldn’t be a big story that a desktop computer has upgradeable internal storage, but with Apple’s cute new 2024 Mac mini, that’s exactly where we are. It’s possible to pop the SSD out after removing a screw, and then switch in a bigger one. We didn’t run into the software blocks we saw in the… Full Article
b Mizuho Financial Group to buy 15% of Rakuten Card for $1 billion By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:37 GMT In This Article: TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Mizuho Financial Group will take a 15% stake in Rakuten Group subsidiary Rakuten Card for 165 billion yen ($1.06 billion) in a further deepening of the two companies' strategic alliance, they said on Wednesday. The share transfer is planned for Dec. 1,… Full Article
b What Are Republics, Exactly? By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:22 GMT Republican ideals have evolved over millennia. Modern republics face challenges in upholding their foundational principles. Full Article
b Indian Fund Teams Up With UK and Norway to Boost Struggling Power Grid with $300 Million Injection By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:52 GMT Full Article
b China battery giant CATL would build US plant if Trump allows it, chairman says By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:24 GMT China battery giant CATL would build US plant if Trump allows it, chairman says Trump wants to block Chinese EV, battery imports but open to US plants with American workers Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the world’s top battery maker, will consider building a US plant if president-elect… Full Article
b J. Zachary Mazlish on median wages under Biden By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:12:42 GMT An excellent post, one of the best things written this year in economics. Here is part of the bottom line: Inflation did make the median voter poorer during Biden’s term. In no part of the income distribution did wages grow faster while Biden was President than they did 2012-2020. This is true in… Full Article
b Japan's 7-Eleven owner eyes going private with $38bn buyout By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:16 GMT TOKYO -- Japan's 7-Eleven convenience store chain owner Seven & i Holdings is considering plans to go private by means of a management buyout, Nikkei learned on Wednesday. In a statement responding to the reports, the retail giant has admitted that it has received such an offer from its founding… Full Article
b Markets Everywhere Are Getting Rattled by Trump’s US Agenda By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:20 GMT Donald Trump’s election victory has catapulted US stocks to fresh records and pushed the dollar to a two-year high. It’s anything but good news for the rest of the world. Most Read from Bloomberg Equities excluding the US are tumbling, with an MSCI gauge at its lowest in three months. An index of… Full Article
b A look at Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, which Alibaba claims to match GPT-4o's coding capabilities and is small enough to run on a MacBook Pro M2 with 64GB of RAM By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:20 GMT Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac 12th November 2024 There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz is well… Full Article
b German lithium plant hopes to turbo-charge Europe’s EV makers By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:01:46 GMT Vulcan Energy says its new plant west of Frankfurt, now in its pilot phase, plans to soon produce lithium for batteries used by auto manufacturers including Volkswagen, Renault and Stellantis. Full Article
b Mutual Fund Investors Face Unwanted Tax Bills. Are You on the List? By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:11 GMT Full Article
b "We Must Do Whatever It Takes!" - Netherlands Reinstates Temporary Border Controls To Curve Illegal Immigration By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:01:57 GMT "We Must Do Whatever It Takes!" - Netherlands Reinstates Temporary Border Controls To Curve Illegal Immigration Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The Netherlands has announced it will reintroduce internal border checks starting Dec. 9 in fresh efforts to manage illegal immigration. The… Full Article
b TV to watch in November, from 'Dune: Prophecy' to 'A Man on the Inside' By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:04 GMT A new comedy from 'The Good Place' creator, a prequel to 'Dune' and the conclusion of one of America's most popular shows Full Article
b How to save a bundle on children’s clothes By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:51 GMT From swap meets to looking after clothes correctly, you can save cash while making your children’s wardrobes more sustainable Charity shops can be a goldmine for bargains – use the Charity Retail Association’s online search page to find ones that stock children’s clothes, or in London, head to one… Full Article
b BT has left my 80-year-old dad without a landline for months By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:29 GMT After hours of calls to BT, engineer no-shows, complaints raised and multiple promises, nothing has happened I am desperate to help my 80-year-old dad, JF, and his partner who have been left without a landline for more than two months by BT. This is especially difficult as my dad has relatives in… Full Article
b Dogecoin Craze Grips Korea, Fuels Price Premium on Local Giants Upbit and Bithumb By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:33 GMT DOGE trades at premium on Upbit and Bithumb relative to Binance. - The price differential is still noticeably lower than the previous bull market peaks. Today is just that day as Koreans seem to be jumping into the DOGE market, driving prices higher and creating a noticeable premium on local… Full Article
b Bitcoin Rally Cools After Jump of About 30% Since Trump Victory By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:01:57 GMT A surge in Bitcoin has paused as traders assess the remaining market impact of President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetorical support for crypto. Most Read from Bloomberg The digital asset is up about 30% in the wake of Trump’s Nov. 5 election victory, hitting a record of $89,968 on Tuesday, based on… Full Article
b Japan's Seven & i says receives buyout proposal from founding Ito family By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:15 GMT Full Article
b YouTube is testing a new feature that will let a small group of creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their Shorts through prompts By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:16 GMT YouTube is testing a new feature that will let creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their shorts. The small group of creators with access can enter a prompt to change up different elements in a song, such as its mood or genre, and the expansion of YouTube’s Dream Track AI feature will… Full Article
b How business owners can prepare for potential tariff hikes in 2025 By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:38 GMT President-elect Donald Trump has promised tariff hikes. Here's what experts say business owners should be doing now to prepare. Full Article
b SoftBank first to receive new Nvidia chips for supercomputer By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:52:39 GMT SoftBank's Japanese telecoms unit will receive the first chips using Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA)'s latest Blackwell design for its supercomputer, the California-based chip designer said, as Masayoshi Son looks to ride the artificial intelligence boom. SoftBank (TYO:9984) Corp is also planning to use… Full Article
b Kansai Electric to Raise Up to $3.3 Billion From Share Sale By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:42:15 GMT Full Article
b Sea Ltd. Stock Jumps As 31% Revenue Growth Beats Expectations By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:12:35 GMT Access to this page has been denied because we believe you are using automation tools to browse the website. This may happen as a result of the following: - Javascript is disabled or blocked by an extension (ad blockers for example) - Your browser does not support cookies Please make sure that… Full Article
b SoftBank is Nvidia's first Blackwell chips customer. Here's what they're going to be used for By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:12:40 GMT Full Article
b Trump win could be a double whammy for Hungary's economy By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:12:58 GMT By Gergely Szakacs and Karin Strohecker BUDAPEST/LONDON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's victory may be a political boon for Hungarian leader Viktor Orban but on the economy, Trump is bad news for Hungary - adding to inflationary risks due to a weak forint and lower output due to possible tariffs on… Full Article
b Teraco Taps Absa for $442 Million Loan for AI-Ready Facility By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:12:58 GMT In This Article: (Bloomberg) -- Teraco Data Environments Ltd. hired Absa Group Ltd. to syndicate an 8 billion rand ($442 million) loan as the company gears up for a new facility to meet rising demand from artificial intelligence applications. Most Read from Bloomberg The facility will push… Full Article
b Australian Buyout Financing Activity Gets Boost From Lumus Deal By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:32:31 GMT Full Article
b China's renaming of its regional jet is another clear sign its homegrown planemaker is coming for Boeing and Airbus By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:46 GMT The ARJ21, COMAC's first commercially available plane, was rebranded on Tuesday to the C909. Chen Xiao/VCG via Getty Images China's COMAC is rebranding its regional jet to the C909, keeping with the naming style of its newer C919. That might not get COMAC more C909 sales, but it markets the plane… Full Article
b Just Eat Takeaway announces that it is selling Grubhub to Wonder in a $650M deal expected to close in Q1 2025; Just Eat bought Grubhub for $7.3B in 2020 By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:28 GMT Netherlands-based Just Eat Takeaway announced today that it is selling Grubhub to Wonder in a deal valued at $650 million. The company said that it expects the deal to be completed by Q1 2025. “The sale of Grubhub to Wonder will increase the cash generation capabilities of Just Eat Takeaway.com… Full Article
b Bluesky Pulled a Million New Users After Election as More Abandoned Musk’s X By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:30 GMT The reelection of Donald Trump as president last week brought a wave of jubilation to X (formerly Twitter). The influencers and megadonors who supported the Republican nominee delighted in the defeat of his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, while giddily speculating about the extremist… Full Article
b US Startup Buys Just Eat Takeaway’s Grubhub for $650 Million By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:40 GMT In This Article: (Bloomberg) -- Wonder Group Inc. is buying Grubhub from Just Eat Takeaway.com NV for about $650 million, acquiring the restaurant delivery service at a steep discount to the $7.3 billion price tag it commanded during the early days of the Covid pandemic. Most Read from… Full Article
b The U.S. Can’t Beat China at Solar Power. It May Be Time to Join Them By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:32:20 GMT Full Article