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  • Coinbase Ex-Executive Convicted Of Insider Trading Is Crypto’s Latest Legal Hope

    Ishan Wahi, a former executive at Coinbase, pleaded guilty this year to giving trading tips to his brother and a college friend that generated nearly $1.5 million in illegal profits. As an Indian immigrant, he could serve more than three years in prison and be deported over time. But Mr. Wahi is still fighting the […]

  • Crypto will be ‘over’ in the US if Coinbase loses battle with SEC. This is why

    Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger. This is Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. Crypto exchange Coinbase MINT said Wednesday it received a notice from Wells from the Securities and Exchange Commission that could lead to formal charges. The SEC’s Wells notice covered an unspecified portion of the exchange’s publicly traded digital assets, the staking […]

  • Accenture is cutting 19,000 jobs as IT spending declines

    Accenture PLC is cutting around 19,000 jobs over the next 18 months, or 2.5% of its workforce, as the professional services company looks to cut costs and streamline operations amid declining IT spending. The company, which offers IT consulting and other business services, said in a filing filed Thursday that most of the employees expected […]

  • Nvidia stock hits best winning streak since 2007 as AI advantage called ‘insurmountable’

    Nvidia Corp. is in a unique position to take advantage of what has been dubbed an artificial intelligence revolution, analysts claim. At Nvidia NVDA annual GTC developer conference, the gaming chip specialist rolled out a slew of hardware and software products ready to be the picks and spades of the current AI gold rush, forming […]

  • First Republic Bank asks Lazard for help with strategic options assessment

    First Republic Bank FRC 29.47% strengthens his ranks of advisors as the troubled lender tries to stay afloat and plan for a post-crisis future amid a transatlantic crisis of confidence in the banking system. The Bank of California this week tapped Lazard Ltd. LAZ 3.23% to help assess strategic options, such as a sale, a […]

  • Amazon plans to lay off another 9,000 employees

    Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in a statement that the company has added a significant number of employees in recent years, a move he defended as necessary given what was happening in Amazon’s business at the time. “Given the uncertain economy we live in, and the uncertainty that exists for the foreseeable future, we have […]

  • US threatens ban if TikTok’s Chinese owners don’t sell stakes

    WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is demanding that TikTok’s Chinese owners sell their shares in the video-sharing app or risk a potential U.S. ban on the app, according to people familiar with the matter. The move represents a major policy shift on the part of the government, which has come under fire from some Republicans […]

  • Uber, Lyft win as California court upholds right to treat drivers like contractors

    Uber Technologies Inc., UBER -0.93% Lyft Inc. LYFT -2.87% and other companies won a California court ruling that maintains their model of independent contractors in the state and could boost their efforts to maintain that model elsewhere. A state appeals court said workers should continue to be treated as independent contractors under a California ballot […]

  • Meta is planning new layoffs similar to last year’s

    Facebook Parental Meta Platforms Inc. META -1.20% plans to announce additional rounds of layoffs in the coming months that would total about the same as last year’s 13% headcount cut, according to people familiar with the matter. The new cuts, the first wave of which is expected to be announced next week, are likely to […]

  • DocuSign shares fall as investors see near-term ‘turbulence’ of reorganization

    Published: March 10, 2023 at 1:55 PM ET Shares of DocuSign fell Friday after Wall Street said an ongoing reorganization of the electronic signature company is likely to create turbulence in the near term, even if it beat expectations for the quarter. DocuSign DOCU shares fell as much as 20% to an intraday low of […]