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Tencent to Axe Jobs in Streaming, Gaming, Cloud Divisions
Tencent to Axe Jobs in Streaming, Gaming, Cloud Divisions

Tencent cut jobs earlier this year too, alongside the likes of Alibaba, as Beijing’s crackdowns and the economic slowdown take their toll

Bankrupt Crypto Exchange FTX Could Have 1 Million Creditors
Bankrupt Crypto Exchange FTX Could Have 1 Million Creditors

FTX founder and former chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried, said he expanded his business too fast and failed to notice signs of trouble at the exchange

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Reveals $4bn Stake in TSMC
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Reveals $4bn Stake in TSMC

TSMC shares jumped after Berkshire Hathaway disclosed in a filing that it owns about 60.1 million American depositary shares of the Taiwanese chipmaker

India Smartphone Market Falls 10% As Prices Shoot up
Binance CEO Calls for Clearer Rules to Stabilise ‘Crazy’ Sector
TikTok Doubles Ad Revenue As Western Platforms Decline – NYT
FTX Hit by ‘Rogue’ $515m Crypto Outflows After Collapse
$1.7 Billion of Clients’ Funds ‘Missing’ After FTX Collapse
China Chipmaker SMIC Predicts Weak Demand in 2023 – SCMP
iPhone Maker Foxconn Set to Quadruple India Plant Workforce

Fintech: The Big Picture

ASML in the Centre of the Chip War

With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors