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Pedestrians walk past signage for SoftBank Group outside a store in Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 29, 2018.Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDigital mortgage lender Better.com announced Tuesday that it will make its market debut by merging with Aurora Acquisition Corp., valuing Better at $7.7 billion.The company, ranked No. 15 on last
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Boston-based biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks will make its market debut by merging with Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp., the blank-check company led by former MGM CEO Harry Sloan.Ginkgo was started in 2009 by a team of MIT scientists intent on building made-to-order microbes that enable customers to grow rather than
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The Google Pay app now lets U.S. users make money transfers to India and Singapore thanks to integrations with Wise and Western Union.GoogleGoogle is jumping into the massive remittances market.The tech giant's mobile payments service Google Pay announced Tuesday that users in the U.S. will now be able to
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Shanghai-based Atour will be hoping to benefit from a rebound in tourism in China as it gears up for a U.S. initial public offering.Wang Gang | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesGUANGZHOU, China — Chinese hotel chain Atour is exploring an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S. which
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Jack Taylor | Getty ImagesLONDON — Ether, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency, has been stealing the limelight from bitcoin lately. The digital coin hit a record high above $4,000 on Monday and is now up more than 450% since the start of 2021.That doesn't come close to the returns on
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In 2021, bitcoin and ether have seen huge rallies. In April 2021, the cryptocurrency market topped $2 trillion in value for the first time.Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto | Getty ImagesLONDON — Ether surged past $4,000 Monday to hit a new record high, extending a stunning rally for the world's
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A logo of Ant Group is pictured at the headquarters of the company, an affiliate of Alibaba, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China October 29, 2020.Aly Song | ReutersBEIJING — Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, is becoming one of the first major privately run businesses to work with China's
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Cameron Winklevoss, left, and Tyler Winklevoss David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGemini, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, is going all in on dogecoin.Starting Sunday, the Gemini app will let clients move their holdings in dogecoin into interest-bearing accounts through its Gemini Earn service.The company
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Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey.Simon Dawson | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesLONDON — Cryptocurrencies "have no intrinsic value" and people who invest in them should be prepared to lose all their money, Bank of England (BOE) Governor Andrew Bailey said Thursday.Digital currencies like bitcoin, ether and even dogecoin have
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Coinbase employees spray champagne during the company's initial public offering (IPO) outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, April 14, 2021.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLONDON — Stock market listings are making founders, venture capitalists and large institutional investors a fortune. Now, retail traders are
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