SEOUL  – North Korea’s new top three military officers are known for their unquestioning support of leader Kim Jong Un and are flexible enough to accept the massive changes that may come from any deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, people who follow the secretive country say.   They replaced older, more conservative officers who […]

By Alex Mardikian May 2018 heralds a landmark for digital signages in restaurants. FDA has introduced regulations that were held in abeyance for a year. The regulations require that restaurants with more than 20 branches will have to display nutritional information alongside the menu so that customers have the information for making a healthy choice. Apart […]

  Major cryptocurrencies including Ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain network, Bitcoin Cash, and Ripple have recorded relatively large gains in the range of 4 to 12 percent, as the cryptocurrency market demonstrated a $13 billion increase in valuation over the past 24 hours.   Ether, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple Often, both major cryptocurrencies […]

“[I’m] very much waiting for you guys to finish in a sea of shitcoins.” With that, pseudonymous forum user ‘Monkeyyy’ just might have summed up the sentiment surrounding a forthcoming cryptocurrency called “grin.” Rising to renown last year as the first software implementation for a code proposal known as MimbleWimble, the idea is to start a new blockchain […]

WASHINGTON  – Trade frictions between the United States and Canada are a “family quarrel,” President Donald Trump’s economic adviser said on Sunday, brushing aside concerns expressed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as an overreaction. The Trump administration said on Thursday it was moving ahead with tariffs on aluminum and steel imports from Canada, Mexico […]

BERLIN – Bayer (BAYGn.DE) launched a 6 billion euros ($7 billion) rights issue on Sunday, a cornerstone of the financing package for its planned $62.5 billion takeover of seeds maker Monsanto (MON.N).   Bayer last week won U.S. approval for the Monsanto takeover, clearing a major hurdle for a deal that will create by far […]

Donald Trump probably has the power to pardon himself in the Russia collusion affair but does not intend to do so, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani says. A special counsel is investigating Russia’s role in the 2016 election, and whether Mr Trump obstructed justice. The question of self-pardon arose after the New York Times published a […]

By Laura Desmond The use case for cryptocurrency and decentralized payment networks was reinforced this week as Visa payments throughout Europe were disrupted, leaving thousands of people unable to pay for goods and services. The BBC reports that people were left stranded — unable to pay for fuel — and in other cases forced to leave restaurants […]

By Laura Desmond Everyone’s talking about blockchain. In 2012, I watched some of my long-time friends leave very successful businesses to go all in on Bitcoin. Here were people with killer business acumen, who I had worked with for years, and they were leaving everything behind for this new technology. For example, two of my friends created […]

The Nativity was stolen in 1969 and could have been hidden in Switzerland Hopes of solving one of the worst art crimes in history have been reignited after Italian investigators announced they had received new information. Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence, a Caravaggio masterpiece stolen in 1969, could have been hidden in Switzerland after it […]