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Matt Hertzog spends 50 hours a week playing Xbox. That makes the 37-year-old part of a key target market for big financial firms. Banks are seeking out millennial and Gen Z customers in the $57 billion-a-year videogame industry.

K-dramas to explore on various streaming platforms. Here's why you should dive into K-dramas on some of the top streaming sites and how to enjoy them ad-free.

BITS Pilani alumnus has sparked a significant conversation about the challenges faced by techies in Bengaluru, particularly around issues of loneliness, work-life imbalance, and their detrimental effects on mental and physical health. The post has resonated widely, urging tech professionals to focus on their health and family.

The teams that proposed use cases in an initial challenge conducted earlier this year represent veteran financial companies, fintech firms, technology firms, and private teams. The use cases that were selected by an internal committee at the central bank deal with a variety of functions: connectivity between the digital shekel, other payment systems, and cash; use of the advanced functionalities offered by the digital shekel, such as subwallets, conditional payments, and split payments; and the implementation of various technologies while using the digital shekel as a means of payment. The central bank intends to put participant proposals to the test in a digital sandbox in August, with products developed to be showcased at a concluding conference at the end of October. Bank of Israel deputy governor Andrew Abir says: “We have learned quite a lot from the process thus far in building the Challenge and in discussions with the teams that have shown interest, and I am certain that we will learn much more from the case uses that will be developed by the selected participants.

A British Columbia legal tech company has raised US$900 million, drawing in new investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Silicon Valley’s New Enterprise Associates Inc. and valuing the company — whose backers already include the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) — at US$3 billion.

CrowdStrike software update that crashed computers globally last week hitting services from aviation to banking and healthcare was caused by a bug in the U.S. cybersecurity firm's quality control mechanism, the company said on Wednesday.

ShareChat has partnered with Viacom18-owned streaming platform JioCinema to offer exclusive short-form multilingual content related to Paris Olympics 2024 from July 26 to August 11, 2024.

revenue growth, said a Media Partners Asia report.

Mexican officials say an explosion and fire erupted inside a tequila factory, killing at least five workers and injuring two others at the site in the liquor’s namesake town in Jalisco state

STT) — collected on trades done in equities or derivatives on the exchange platform —for the sale of futures and options. The move is expected to dampen the heightened activity in stock futures and options that was seen as a matter of concern for the authorities and the regulators.

The leading platform in crypto education, 99Bitcoins ($99BTC), is entering the final stretch of its presale and is slated to wrap up fundraising efforts by August 6.

George Soros and his millennial son Alex have thrown their weight behind Kamala Harris and urged all Democrats to rally around the first black vice president to beat Republican candidate Donald Trump. Will it stop an open contest for the nomination at a time when the Democrats are left with barely more than 100 days before the November 5 election? Taking to social media platform X, Alex Soros wrote it is time for all to unite around Kamala Harris and beat Donald Trump. He also added she is the best and most qualified candidate.

antitrust watchdog has approved the sale of Appario Retail, the largest seller on Amazon India, to Clicktech, another major seller on the platform.

support for Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee attracted just 90 participants. On Sunday night, an estimated 90,000 Black women and allies logged on at the same time to support her brand-new presidential campaign.

Legal tech company Clio said on Tuesday it had raised US$900 million in an investment round led by venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA), in one of the largest fundraises by a Canadian startup.

Rotterdam’s police have played a crucial role in dismantling an extensive “pig butchering” scam, a fraud operation preying on victims via dating and social media platforms before siphoning off their savings.

credit flow to the micro, small & medium enterprises (MSME) sector in the budget is likely to give a major thrust to digital lending startups.

As the crypto market heats up and meme coins start soaring, here’s a new project that offers a golden opportunity to get in on a promising token before everyone else does.

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Bitcoin has traditionally been associated with its store of value or digital gold narratives. This is however rapidly changing with the integration of BTC into decentralized finance (DeFi) products and the spur of growth in interoperability solutions for the asset. Currently, nearly $1 trillion in BTC value is lying in wallets as dormant capital, with partly $15 billion worth of daily transactions across the largest blockchain ecosystem today.