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Companies globally are grappling with rising costs of raw materials, labour and logistics as China's zero-Covid policy strained supply chains and war in Ukraine pushed up energy prices
The government blocked the game because of concern about data sharing and mining in China. Tencent owns a major stake in Krafton. Shares in both companies fell on Friday
Representative Jerrold Nadler, chair of the House judiciary committee, said that "three hostile foreign actors" had attacked the courts' document filing system
With billionaire Ma giving up control of Ant, any potential revival of its IPO may be pushed back by a year or more, the WSJ reported.
The firm seems to think its biggest public perception problem is that it's from China, according to the trove of material accessed by Gizmodo
Its operating profit rose to 14.1 trillion won ($10.8 billion) for the quarter ended June 30 from 12.57 trillion won a year earlier, higher than the company's own estimate of 14 trillion won
The US company said it expects third-quarter revenue to fall between $26 billion and $28.5 billion, a second successive year-over-year decline
The "Chips and Science" act provides about $52 billion in subsidies for US semiconductor production and an investment tax credit for chip plants estimated at $24 billion
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it is worried about real-time payments as more digital assets exchanges and lenders fall foul of regulations
Server chips had been the only remaining bright spot in memory chip demand that drove SK Hynix to report a 56% jump in operating profit
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