Credit Card Giant Visa Testing USDC Payments on Ethereum

2 hours ago | 2 mins read Altcoin News Visa experimenting USDC stablecoin on Ethereum. Visa will have access to smart contract-based payment options. The credit card giant Visa aims to integrate Ether...

Is Payment Giant Visa Secretly Working With Ripple?

Visa has acquired or partnered with 4 Ripple partners in the last few years. Pseudonymous XRP Influencer 24HRSCRYPTO has asserted that global payment giant Visa is secretly working with Ripple. The in...

Baidu Stock Jumps After Chinese Search Giant Unveils ChatGPT-Style Project

Robin Li Yanhong, chairman and CEO of Baidu, speaks at the opening ceremony of 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) at Shanghai World Expo Center on July 8, 2021 in Shanghai, China. Wu...

Crypto Giant Binance Suspending All Bank Transfers in US Dollars, Says Freeze Is Temporary

Crypto powerhouse Binance says it’s pausing all bank transfers denominated in the US dollar. In a brief message on Twitter, the leading crypto exchange by volume says it expects the freeze to affect a...

Gold Giant Makes $17 Billion Bid for Australian Rival

KEY TAKEAWAYS Deal would put Newmont neck-and-neck with global leader Barrick in proven gold reserves Gold industry has undergone a wave of consolidation in recent years Investors may expect a higher ...

Payments Giant Visa Optimistic of Crypto Sector Despite Recent Downturn

36 mins ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News Visa CEO Al Kelly stated that the company is still dedicated to cryptocurrency usage. The possibility of a shakeup in the executive team was also alluded to. At ...

Tech Giant Samsung Developing Extended Reality Headset For Metaverse

Qualcomm, a chipmaker, and Google are partners, as per Samsung. Samsung follows a long line of companies that have previously released metaverse devices. The South Korean tech giant Samsung has announ...

Tech Giant Google Makes $300 Million Investment in AI Firm Anthropic

3 hours ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News Microsoft has previously invested millions of dollars into OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT. Google will acquire a share of roughly 10 percent in Anthropic. With ...

Giant Bitcoin ‘Taproot Wizard’ NFT Minted in Collaboration With Luxor Mining Pool

Battle lines were drawn when the Ordinals protocol, which stores non-fungible tokens on Bitcoin, launched on the dominant blockchain last month. That showdown created two factions – purists who insist...

Buy Linde Stock. The Industrial-Gas Giant Is Going All-In on Hydrogen.

The thunderous force of the Niagara River above the famous falls will soon power a plant three miles away as it pumps out clean energy in the form of hydrogen. It heralds an exciting future for a cent...

Indian retail giant Reliance will be accepting CBDC digital rupee – Cryptopolitan

One of the largest merchants in India has announced that it would enable consumers to make payments using digital versions of the Indian rupee called digital rupee. During the period in which it is be...

India Gets Huge CBDC Push With Retail Giant Reliance

India’s largest retail chain Reliance has started accepting the country’s retail CBDC. The Digital Rupee will soon be accepted in 17,000 stores across the country. Reliance Retail has partnered with s...

South African Retail Giant “Pick N Pay” Now Accepts Bitcoin in all of its 1,628 Stores

The development comes three months after the retailer announced that it was already testing out Bitcoin payments at 39 designated outlets. Pick N Pay, a leading South African grocery retail giant, has...

Match-Trader Goes White Label: Fintech Giant B2Broker Expands Its Liquidity Offering

The FX and crypto industry has received a boost with the announcement that B2Broker has integrated with Match-Trader’s white label liquidity offering. Through this new integration, clients will be abl...

Financial Banking Giant HSBC Forays Into Crypto and Web3

Bitcoin News The bank has recently advertised several high-level roles in the cryptocurrency sector. The new hire will report to the Global Head of Digital Assets and the Head of HSBC Open. One of the...

Layer-1 Blockchain Explodes 150% As Chinese Social Media Giant Integrates Crypto Platform

A layer-1 blockchain project exploded last week on the heels of a new integration with a Chinese social media giant. Multi-chain ecosystem Conflux Network (CFX) is trading around $0.0554 at time of wr...

China E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Falls After Reports of Move to Singapore

Stock in Alibaba the Chinese e-commerce site, fell 7% in Hong Kong trading on Monday after reports the company is moving its headquarters out of the country. Alibaba (ticker: HK:9988) to be building a...

Why Crypto Market is Up Today? Is It a Precursor to a Giant Rally or a Smoke of Hopium?

The post Why Crypto Market is Up Today? Is It a Precursor to a Giant Rally or a Smoke of Hopium? appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News The crypto market is rising today as the global market capital...

Giant Swiss Bank Bought Up Intel, Disney, and AT&T Stock. It Sold AMD.

A big Swiss bank made a call in chip stocks, and loaded up on media and entertainment shares. Julius Baer of Zurich bought up Intel (ticker: INTC), Walt Disney (DIS), and AT&T (T) stock, and sold ...

Exxon’s Q4 comes hot on the heels of Chevron’s giant profit, here’s what to expect

Exxon Mobil Corp. is slated to report earnings before the bell on Tuesday, hot on the heels of results showing a mixed quarter for Chevron Corp., and amid renewed scrutiny over oil giants’ share buyba...

FTX Owes The Money of Giant Firms Including Apple, Google, and Netflix

According to a 115-page list of FTX’s potential creditors, major firms marked their names in it. The big names of firms are Google, Apple, Meta, TikTok, Twitter, Verizon, Netflix, and a slew of compan...

Strike Integrates Lightning With Point of Sale Giant Clover

Bitcoin payment and wallet company Strike has partnered with fintech giant Fiserv to integrate Bitcoin’s lightning network with the point-of-sale terminal provider, Clover.  This will allow certain Cl...

US Credit Ratings Giant Developing Stablecoin Scoring System: Report

One of three biggest credit rating agencies is reportedly working on a scoring system for cryptocurrencies pegged to other assets, such as the US dollar, gold or other digital assets. According to a n...

POS Giant Starts Lightning Trial

Bitcoin’s adoption into the mainstream – not only as a store of value but also as a means of payment – took a big step forward today. As Strike CEO Jack Mallers announced via Twitter, the Bitcoin Ligh...

Bahrain Property Giant Starts Accepting Bitcoin – Trustnodes

Bin Faqeeh, one of Bahrain’s biggest real estate company, has began accepting bitcoin and other crypto currencies. Ahmed Radhi, the Senior Relationship Manager at Bin Faqeeh, suggested that any crypto...

Ecommerce Giant Amazon To Launch NFT Initiative

Big tech giant Amazon is taking another step to solidify a position in the crypto industry. According to a report from crypto news outlet Blockworks, the company will launch a non-fungible token (NFT)...

Chip giant misses Wall Street expectations, Q1 guidance disappoints

Intel (INTC) reported its Q4 2022 earnings after the bell on Thursday, missing analysts’ expectations as the chip industry continues to struggle with slowing consumer and enterprise demand. What...

Crypto Giant Grayscale To Face SEC in Court To Push for Converting Its Bitcoin Investment Product Into ETF

Crypto giant Grayscale says the oral argument for its lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will happen earlier than expected. Grayscale filed the suit last year to contest...

Budblockz (BLUNT) To Outrun Fantom (FTM) As the Next Crypto Giant

In 2022 the crypto market lost over 60% of its total value, equating to around 2 trillion USD. During this market decline, it was estimated that at least 2500 cryptocurrency projects fell through, los...

Ukraine’s American-Made M-1 Tanks Will Be A Giant Pain To Maintain

A U.S. Army M-1A1 in Germany. Wikimedia Commons The United States has pledged to Ukraine an initial 31 M-1 Abrams tanks, the U.S. Defense Department announced on Wednesday. The 70-ton M-1s with their ...

IBM Stock: Tech Giant Beats Quarterly Estimates As Consulting Biz Leads Growth

IBM stock sank late Wednesday, though the technology mainstay beat Wall Street’s fourth-quarter expectations. X During the December period, IBM (IBM) earned $3.60 per share, minus some items, on...

EV giant reports Q4 revenue and profit beat; Cybertruck to begin production later this year

Tesla stock is trading slightly higher in after hours following the EV maker reporting a Q4 earnings revenue and profit beat. In addition, the company announced its Cybertruck is on track for producti...