Receive free Alphawave updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Alphawave news every morning. Alphawave’s London-listed shares crashed more than 50 per cent on Wednesday, after the FT published an article flagging the semiconductor company’s close links to key contract partners. The Toronto-based chip IP group raised £856m in…
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It’s been a few months since 9to5Mac began reporting on Costa Rican banks readying the launch of Apple Pay in the country. Now, Banco Promerica just uploaded Apple’s payment system terms and conditions to its web page. more… The post Costa Rican banks continue to ready Apple Pay ahead of expected launch appeared first on…
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Receive free Amazon.com updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Amazon.com news every morning. Amazon is about to find out whether being cute is sufficient distraction from being creepy. Astro, the company’s new home robot, is roughly the size of a small dog, has cute Wall-E style eyes displayed…
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Receive free Artificial intelligence updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Artificial intelligence news every morning. The Collingridge Dilemma sounds like the title of a Sherlock Holmes mystery. It is, in fact, one of the best explanations for how difficult it can be to control risky technologies. In essence,…
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The founder of one of Russia’s largest cyber security companies has been arrested on suspicion of state treason and will be held in a notorious prison run by the security services for the next two months, a Moscow court said on Wednesday. The charges against Ilya Sachkov, founder of Group-IB, are classified and details of…
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Are Stablecoins superior to TradFi? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. An important question was answered this week. Are we really taking a step forward in terms of value with this new technology over the current Financial Infrastructure often referred to as TradFI? First a reminder of…
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Receive free Technology updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Technology news every morning. This article is an on-site version of our #techAsia newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Wednesday Hi everyone, James here in Hong Kong. With the big holiday…
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Skype has some significant changes in the works. It offered a peek at what’s coming later this year, with a focus on speed, reliability and design, as well as other performance upgrades. Microsoft announced the addition of the latest features to Skype via a blog post on September 27. The company said that the new plans bring an “improved, faster, reliable,…
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General Catalyst, one of the largest US venture capital firms, has started a fund to purchase sales contracts from tech start-ups, adding to a growing roster of companies hoping to profit from the strategy. In a regulatory filing, General Catalyst said it planned to start an investment strategy focused on “the purchase of account receivables…
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Whenever chief executives pitch a deal as a merger of equals, it is tempting to dismiss it as a face-saving exercise for the acquired company with limited real-world consequences. But Mizuho Financial Group, which was created through a three-way merger in the midst of Japan’s banking crisis in 2000, shows the potential risks. More than…
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