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Blockchain & Crypto

UK Offers Tax Exemption for Foreign Crypto Investors

Starting Jan. 1 2023, foreign investors purchasing crypto through local UK investment managers or brokers are exempt from additional tax

News

Apple’s Market Cap Falls Below $2T as Deliveries Decline

Apple’s shares fell over 3% during intraday trading on Tuesday, taking its market cap down to $1.98 trillion

Blockchain & Crypto

IRS Seeks Partnership with Crypto Companies to Fight Crime

Top Internal Revenue Service (IRS) law enforcer said the tax-collection agency wants to cooperate with the digital assets industry to fight crypto-related crime

Reports

Report Reveals Banking Trends to Watch in 2023

Insider Intelligence highlighted four main banking trends that will emerge in 2023 to help customers weather the economic storms

News

Final Fantasy Creator Focuses on Blockchain Gaming

Final Fantasy creator Square Enix aims to double its investments in blockchain gaming development, despite the decline of the overall crypto market

Science & Technology

Ethereum vs Bitcoin: Which Crypto was More Popular in 2022?

Total transactions on the Ethereum network outstripped Bitcoin more than fourfold, although Bitcoin remained the leader in online search interest

News

US Credit Card Transaction Volume Hit $3.09T in 2022: Insider Intelligence

Insider Intelligence forecasts US credit card transaction volume to hit $3.089 trillion in 2022, shaped by a few dominant trends

News

Retailers Prepare to Close the Holiday Quarter: This Season was Different

As holiday shopping is coming to an end, the next few weeks would help determine the overall success of the 2022-2023 holiday quarter for retailers – so far, signals are mixed

News

Bank of Israel Introduces a Rate Hike

Although inflation in Israel is lower than in most Western countries, the country’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate on Monday to stabilise the economy

News

Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Recorded 2.2 Million Registered Domains Last Year

ENS turns difficult-to-read data strings into simple website-style addresses that are easier to remember and use

Finance & Economics

IMF: Economy to Face “Tough Year” in 2023

According to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, the world economy should brace for a tough year in 2023.

Finance & Economics

EU Gas Prices Fall Amid Mild Winter

The prices for natural gas in the European Union continued their downward trend in the new year.

News

Virtual Employees Hired in China for $14K a Year

While US companies are slow to adopt virtual employees trend, China’s cyberspace has doubled its “hiring” of digitised human beings

Reports

The Reason for Record Wage Raises Revealed

Wages for many US employees were up between 5.5% – 7.7% in November – the highest increase in 25 years of record-keeping

News

New AI Service QuickVid Generates Videos with Voiceovers

A new AI-enabled web service QuickVid combines several generative systems to automatically create short-form YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat videos

Science & Technology

Microsoft to Acquire a Stake in London Stock Exchange

The symbiosis between the two giants of the tech industry and traditional markets will also involve the creation of new products able to “revolutionize the way financial advisers provide advice to their clients”