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Y Combinator has completed its first venture capital investment paid entirely in stablecoins, settling $500,000 in USDC on the Solana blockchain for prediction-markets startup Totalis. The transaction, reported on April 13, 2026, marks a concrete shift in how the world’s most influential startup
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission released its 2025 franchise business status report on April 15, revealing a significant structural gap in the coffee franchise market: the brand with the most stores does not generate the highest average sales per location. Mega Coffee leads with 3,325
Renault plans to reduce its global engineering workforce by up to 20% over the next two years, affecting approximately 2,200 positions from its total of more than 11,000 engineers worldwide. The move reflects intensifying competition from Chinese automakers in Europe and a broader strategic shift to
Samsung SDI and LG Energy Solution are internally reviewing mass production plans for sodium-ion batteries, marking a strategic pivot by South Korean battery manufacturers to compete with Chinese lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery dominance. At the NGBS 2026 seminar held in Seoul on
Susquehanna Investment Research raised Intel's price target to $80 per share on April 23, ahead of the company's Q1 2026 earnings release, citing strong server CPU demand driven by agentic artificial intelligence workloads. The new target represents a 25% upside from Intel's Tuesday close of $63.81