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Billionaire Mark Cuban-backed Dave said on Monday it would go public through a merger with a blank-check firm sponsored by investment firm Victory Park Capital, valuing the banking app at US$4 billion.

TAIPEI: A leading Taiwanese chip testing and packaging company said on Monday (Jun 7) that all its migrant employees have been suspended from working for around two weeks to contain a coronavirus outbreak. At least 206 employees, mostly migrant workers, at facilities run by King Yuan Electronics ...

Trulioo, a Canadian-based startup that provides electronic identity and address verification globally, said on Monday it raised US$394 million in a funding round led by venture capital firm TCV and that it is now valued at US$1.75 billion.

GIC has joined a dozen other institutional investors and stewardship service providers to push big Asian utilities firms to cut emissions.

CALIFORNIA: Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook and his team address one of their most important audiences on Monday (Jun 7), kicking off an annual conference for app developers at a time the iPhone maker is defending itself in court over its App Store practices. The Apple Worldwide Developers ......

Video conferencing services have for years boasted that their technology is "intuitive" to use or "integrated" to function with other tools, but now vendors such as Google and Cisco can hardly go a blog post without trumpeting a different attribute: "inclusive."

To be better prepared for future pandemics, our top-down models and agreements must shape responses grounded firmly in local communities and value their engagement, risk ownership, and anxieties, say Ngaire Woods and Ok Pannenborg.

Google said on Monday it will test changes to its widely-used online advertising services over the coming months following the French antitrust decision.

The Bank of England said on Monday that payments with 'stablecoins' - a form of digital currency - would need to regulated in the same way as payments currently handled by banks if they become widespread.