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09.07.26 - 20:06
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Chip Stocks Rally on AI Boom | Open Interest 7/9/2026 (Bloomberg)
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Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Chipmakers are powering stocks higher as SK Hynix prepares for its US debut. Pepsi flashes retail warning signs as shoppers pull back. And tensions rise in the Middle East after fresh US-Iran strikes. Plus, Kurt Wagner on Zuckerberg's AI monetization push, Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on global shipping risks, and Dan Suzuki on why Fed cuts may beat hikes. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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09.07.26 - 07:19
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Japan Police Ink Pact with E-Commerce Firms to Share Info (Nippon)
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Tokyo, July 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan's National Police Agency signed an agreement with three major e-commerce site operators Thursday to share information and prevent fraudulent transactions. Under the pact signed with Mercari Inc., LY Corp. and Rakuten Group Inc., the police will receive and analyze information on credit cards used fraudulently and on accounts of malicious merchants. The resu......
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08.07.26 - 11:36
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Japan Mobile Carriers to Delay Rollout of 060 Prefix (Nippon)
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Tokyo, July 8 (Jiji Press)--Five Japanese mobile phone carriers said Wednesday that they will postpone offering mobile phone numbers with the new prefix of 060, initially slated to be introduced in July or later. NTT Docomo Inc., KDDI Corp., SoftBank Corp., Rakuten Mobile Inc. and Okinawa Cellular Telephone Co. said that the decision reflected slower-than-expected progress in system upgrades......
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07.07.26 - 19:45
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ChatGPT is now in Viber (PR Newswire)
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Rakuten Viber and OpenAI Partner to Bring ChatGPT Directly into Messaging SAN MATEO, Calif. and LONDON, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Rakuten Viber is bringing ChatGPT directly to your fingertips. Through a new global partnership with OpenAI, Viber users can now access ChatGPT-powered......
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06.07.26 - 05:36
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Rakuten Travel Xchange CEO on Japan′s Tourism (Bloomberg)
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James Park, CEO at Rakuten Travel Xchange, discusses the trends shaping Japan's tourism market as inbound arrivals extended its decline in May, weighed down by reduced flights across routes and a prolonged slump in Chinese visitors. He speaks with Shery Ahn on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade."
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04.07.26 - 02:06
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SoftBank targets AI cloud market with 10GW US rental plan (Digitimes)
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SoftBank Group (SBG) and telecom subsidiary SoftBank said they will set up a new company in the US in July 2026 to rent out AI computing resources, aiming to challenge CoreWeave and Nebius in the fast-growing AI cloud market. The new unit, SB Neo, is scheduled to begin operations in fiscal 2027 (April 2027 to March 2028)....
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02.07.26 - 21:18
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Did the World’s Best AI Lab Really Sell to Google for Just $5 Million? (24/7 Wall St.)
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On a recent Diet TBPN segment, Jordi Hays and his co-host wandered back to December 2010, when a young neuroscientist named Demis Hassabis raised a small amount of funding for a research outfit called DeepMind. The number Jordi surfaced is the kind that makes you spit out your coffee. He said DeepMind “sold half the ... Did the World's Best AI Lab Really Sell to Google for Just $5 Million?...
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02.07.26 - 17:06
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Google Loses EU Antitrust Fight; Softbank Moves on Computing Power | Stock Movers (Bloomberg)
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On this episode of Stock Movers:
- SoftBank (SFTBY) shares are responding to news that it is starting a new U.S. venture to rent out the computing power needed to build and run artificial-intelligence models, aiming to capitalize on strong American demand for AI computing resources.
- Shares of Alphabet/Google (GOOG) are responding to the company losing its long-running fight against a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc's top judges said regulators were right to punish the US giant for abusing Android's market power. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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