Rumours of accounting shenanigans have been swirling around the company for years, but many investors dismissed these, believing that while the giant furniture retailer and manufacturer might sail 'a bit close to the wind', it was generally on the right side of the law. By Sarah Planting for MONEYWEB.
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Hackers emptied the entire contents of a digital wallet belonging to NiceHash, a cryptocurrency company. NiceHash didn't say how much was stolen, but customers speculate that it could total around $63 million in bitcoin.
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Four former engineers at Applied Materials Inc. were charged by the U.S. with trying to steal chip designs from the semiconductor equipment giant to sell them to a Chinese startup, which may fuel fears the world's second-largest economy is resorting to illegal tactics to break its dependence on chip
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Some of the world's biggest derivatives brokerages criticized plans by U.S. exchanges to offer bitcoin futures and options, saying the contracts have been rushed to market without proper consideration of the risks. The brokerages, who laid out their concerns in an open letter via the Futures Industry
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—People can now ride around Boston's Seaport neighborhood in a self-driving vehicle, thanks to a pilot program launched this week by ride-hailing company Lyft and NuTonomy, the autonomous vehicle software startup now owned by Aptiv.
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