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Court Rejects Early Dismissal in Coinbase Stock Sale Lawsuit
Crime A shareholder lawsuit accusing Coinbase insiders of trading on confidential information will continue, after a Delaware judge ruled that an internal investigation clearing the company’s leadersh...
Dutch seizure leaves Chinese chipmaker owner facing devastating $1.3 billion loss
A Chinese technology company is bracing for huge financial losses after the Dutch government moved to take over its European semiconductor operations, according to an announcement made Friday. Wingtec...
Starlink privacy change sparks concerns as SpaceX eyes trillion-dollar xAI merger
As the firm prepares for what may turn out to be one of the biggest IPOs in history, Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Starlink, has secretly modified its privacy conditions to allow the collect...
Apple loses AI researchers, Siri executive in latest departure
Apple has lost four more artificial intelligence researchers in the past couple of weeks, in addition to a top Siri executive. According to reports, the staff are leaving the company to join rivals li...
AI picks 2 must-buy stocks for February 2026
The stock market is moving into February after a volatile start to 2026, but there are several companies that still offer investment opportunities. Indeed, for investors seeking to tap into stocks in ...
Kraft Heinz, Kellogg breakups show Big Food is getting smaller
Kraft Heinz announced plans to split into two separately traded companies, reversing its 2015 megamerger, which was orchestrated by billionaire investor Warren Buffett. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images ...
Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks talks Medicare coverage of obesity pills
Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks on Friday said upcoming Medicare coverage of obesity drugs could be a major catalyst for the rollout of the company’s closely watched experimental weight loss pill, orfo...
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen targets consumer mega deal
GameStop wants to acquire a publicly traded consumer company that’s far larger than the video game retailer in a deal that could be “transformational” for the company, CEO Ryan Cohen...
Arizona women sue over AI-generated sexual deepfakes
Three Arizona women have sued several people and companies, alleging that their images were taken off their social media pages and fed into artificial intelligence (AI) models to generate deepfakes of...
Hong Kong 2026 Finance Plan Targets New Markets and Connectivity
Key Insights: Hong Kong’s 2026 plan targets capital markets, fintech, commodities, and cross-border financial connectivity. Authorities plan market reforms, stablecoin licensing, and expanded gold and...
Chicago’s Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust closes over capital weakness and safety issues
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) closed Chicago’s Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust on Friday due to unsafe and unsound conditions and an impaired capital p...
Warsh nomination sparks clash between balance sheet cuts and Trump’s rate goals
Major investment firms are warning that the next Federal Reserve chief’s plans to reduce the central bank’s holdings could work against the president’s push for cheaper borrowing. Donald Trump’s pick ...
Amazon struggles to meet satellite deadline, seeks two-year extension
The retail giant has petitioned federal regulators for additional time to get its space-based internet project off the ground, citing problems securing enough rocket launches to meet an upcoming deadl...
UnitedHealth flashes major bullish signal after catastrophic crash
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) stock has flashed a major bullish technical signal, forming its first golden cross since July 2024. Indeed, this formation comes as a relief, considering UNH stock remai...
Experts warn data center backlash threatens AI growth, urges community agreements
A Nonprofit think tank, Brookings, announced on January 29 that local communities are resisting the growth of AI data centers across the United States, sparking concerns that the country’s AI infrastr...
Jupiter’s ASR rewards receive backlash for seed phrase export requirements
Jupiter Exchange is facing community criticism after urging users to submit their seed phrases to the Jupiter wallet to claim ASR rewards for Q4 staking activities. Jupiter, a Solana-based decentraliz...
FBI seizes domain of RAMP underground hacking forum
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized the clearnet and darkweb domains of the RAMP underground platform. The RAMP platform serves as a hacking forum and caters to several groups involve...
Coinbase directors face insider trading suit despite internal clearance
A Delaware judge has ruled that a shareholder lawsuit accusing several Coinbase Global Inc. directors of insider trading can proceed. The lawsuit accuses Coinbase directors, among them Brian Armstrong...
Russia starts EV sales with ‘cheaper than Chinese cars’ Atom
Sales of Russia’s electric car Atom are set to start soon, with promises of prices lower than those offered by Chinese competitors. The Russian-made EV has been under development and testing for quite...
Flow destroys 87.4 billion counterfeit tokens from December $3.9M security incident
The Flow Foundation has confirmed the permanent, onchain destruction of 87.4 billion counterfeit FLOW tokens. The project regarded the token burn as the final step in the remediation process that beg...
Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Price Analysis: Investors See 550% Upside as V1 Protocol Activated
At the start of 2026, the decentralized finance market is entering a high-stakes phase. While many established projects are moving sideways, fresh capital is flowing into infrastructure-heavy protocol...
LivLive’s Gamified Edge and ROI Potential Crushes Established Coins
Altcoins Crypto markets continue to reward projects that deliver real utility and explosive upside in 2026. Among the top altcoins drawing attention right now stand Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), XRP, ...
Ripple to unlock 1 billion XRP tomorrow
Ripple is preparing to unlock 1 billion XRP from its escrow wallets on February 1, 2026, marking another month in its long-standing schedule of token releases. The escrow system releases up to 1 billi...
Stablecoin Leader Tether Posts $10B Profit in 2025
Fintech Tether ended 2025 with around $10 billion in profit, a sharp but controlled pullback from the record-breaking results it posted a year earlier, even as the company moved ahead with plans that ...
Tether’s profit drops to just over $10 billion in 2025 as earnings slip 23%
Tether ended 2025 with $10.09 billion in net profit, down 23% from the previous year. The full-year breakdown was confirmed in its Q4 2025 attestation, reviewed by BDO, one of the five largest account...
U.S. District Judge denies consumer request to collect $2.36B in penalties from Google
A U.S. District Judge denied the plaintiffs’ request to draw $2.6 billion in penalties from Google on Friday. The plaintiffs allege that the tech giant collected their data and used it for profit desp...
Lighter partners with Axiom to launch EVM rollup, expands into full DeFi platform
On January 30, Lighter announced a collaboration with Axiom to build Lighter EVM, an Ethereum-compatible rollup. The platform will enable developers to create general-purpose apps that use Lighter’s a...
Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI investment plan hits internal roadblocks
Nvidia’s earlier intention to allocate as much as $100 billion to OpenAI to support training and running its newly released AI models has encountered a setback. This unexpected situation prompted cert...
Billionaire investor says Fed nominee Warsh isn’t a permanent hawk
Stanley Druckenmiller, a billionaire investor and longtime mentor of Donald Trump’s Federal Reserve chair nominee, pushed back on Kevin Warsh’s reputation as a hardliner on interest rates, noting he i...
Partial weekend U.S. government shutdown exposes pitfalls in prediction market contracts
The U.S. government is likely to remain partially shut down through the weekend until the House of Representatives votes on a funding bill that the Senate approved on Friday evening. The House’s delay...
Judge hints at dismissal of xAI’s trade-secrets case against OpenAI
On January 30, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco hinted that she could reject a case filed by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence business xAI, which accused OpenAI, Sam Altman’s competito...