US and France to resolve digital tax dispute within two weeks
French finance minister Bruno Le Maire has stated that following rising tensions between France and United States over France's introduction of a new 'digital tax' regime affecting mostly the large US tech firms, he has been engaged in a lengthy discussion with US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to find a reasonable compromise within exactly two weeks, ahead of the World Economic Forum meet in Switzerland's Davos ski resort.
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Garmin is slowly coming back online after a massive ransomware hack
Five days after a massive ransomware attack, some of Garmin's services are beginning to come back online. Sam Curry, chief security officer of cybersecurity company Cybereason, said the ransomware attack on Garmin was "crippling," and called it "the corporate equivalent of a heart attack." "The longer Garmin is offline, the cost of recovery increases and could cost tens of millions of dollars more," he said.
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Zuckerberg, Pichai, Cook and Bezos' antitrust hearing officially postponed
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai -- the CEOs of Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google-owned Alphabet -- were scheduled to sit before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust. Late on Thursday, a source familiar with the matter said the hearing was very likely to be delayed.
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Rich Dad Poor Dad author predicts Bitcoin will reach $75,000 in 3 years
Rich Dad Poor Dad author, Kiyosaki has gone further to tag a price prediction for Bitcoin. He predicted that Bitcoin will reach $75,000 in the next three years. The author further confirmed that he is buying up some more Bitcoin seeing how incompetent the government has become. Kiyosaki’s prediction is conservative in comparison to other analysts like Anthony Pompliao and PlanB. These analysts expect Bitcoin to reach $100,000 in 2021.
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Bitcoin Hashrate Has Tanked 40% Since Halving; Bullish Or Bearish?
The latest data shows that miners are shutting down the mining equipment. Since the halving, there has been a 40% drop in hashrate. Arguably, just before the halving, this was at an all-time high with miners competing to grab as much as Bitcoin they could get while the reward was 12.5 BTC.
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