LIMITED TIME OFFER: Follow full-time trader Chris Capre & get his options trades in real-time. Click Here to Get His Next Trade! Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal reported that VantageScore Solutions LLC would stop factoring all medical debt in collections into the latest versions of its scores starting October. VantageScore decided to remove all medical collections after finding that they aren’t good at predicting a person’s likelihood of repaying other debts, especially compared with other accounts in collections, said Silvio Tavares, the company’s CEO. Microsoft Corp asked teams across the company to rein in some employee expenses, the Wall Street Journal reports. Managers have told staff regarding various cutbacks to the company’s budget. Microsoft also targeted some spending on business travel, outside training, and company gatherings. At a recent picnic for one Microsoft team, managers paid for their employees’ food and drinks instead of billing the company, writes WSJ. Microsoft’s other cost-cutting initiatives included a hiring freeze in some parts of the company and a plan to lay off less than 1% of its workforce of about 181,000 employees. Bloomberg It is a far more considerable windfall than previously reported. SoftBank’s board approved the early physical settlement of prepaid forward contracts corresponding to 242 million American Depositary Receipts. Cryptocurrency exchange Curve Finance seems to have had a security breach on Tuesday, adding to a long list of previous hacks that have afflicted the digital token industry. Curve tweeted that an “issue has been found and reverted” after an earlier warning against using its curve.fi website. The exchange also retweeted a message that said attackers fled with around $500,000 in stolen funds. Nameservers are used to route internet traffic to the appropriate websites. Financial Times Taiwanese national security officials are pushing Apple Inc’s supplier Foxconn to unwind its $800 million investment in Chinese chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup, according to a Financial Times report. A senior Taiwanese government official involved in national security issues told the publication that the deal would definitely not go through. The development comes as Taipei seeks to align itself more closely with the U.S. after Nancy Pelosi visited the island nation last week in the face of escalating threats from Beijing. Benzinga After Tesla, Inc. CEO Elon Musk teased the possibility of a new Gigafactory in Canada by the year-end at the company’s annual shareholder meeting last week, it appears the electric vehicle maker may have already started the groundwork for the plan. Tesla is lobbying the Ontario government to establish an advanced manufacturing facility in Canada, Reuters reported, citing a filing by the company with the province’s Office of the Integrity Commissioner. Tesla’s Canadian unit is working with the government to “identify opportunities for industrial facility permitting reforms,” the company reportedly said in an amended filing done on Jul. 18. Cities: Test drives of the SUV became available in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Xi’an, and Dongguan, according to information shared by the Nio App, as per the report. Nio reportedly said the first group of customers who took part in the test drives were primarily those who first reserved the Nio ES7 and those who finished their order lock-in. The agency said that to avoid a shortage and to help ensure patients have access to an adequate supply, the FDA said it would not object to the temporary distribution of sitagliptin containing the impurity above the acceptable intake limit. Morgan Stanley has introduced a new indicator that can potentially forecast the price of Ethereum ETH/USD based on speculative activity among traders. The PAVA (price-adjusted volume per address) indicator differentiates price movement based on market fundamentals from price movement based on network usage, reported CoinDesk on Tuesday. PAVA is calculated by dividing ETH’s price in U.S. dollars by the ratio of blockchain transaction volume to active wallet addresses (90-day average). Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc has been accused of misleading investors regarding its public listing, as per a new shareholder derivative lawsuit. What Happened: Coinbase and nine of its executives allegedly breached fiduciary duties, violated the securities act, and issued false and misleading statements concerning its direct listing, according to a shareholder complaint filed on Aug. 4. The complaint alleges that Coinbase “negligently prepared” its registration statement, which contained untrue statements of material fact as a result. The Big Ten Conference, the oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States, is floating a streaming package, and tech giant Apple, Inc. could be interested in lapping up the rights to it, the Athletic reported. Apart from Apple, Amazon, Inc. could be interested in the package, the report said, while Comcast Corporation -owned NBC’s Peacock may also want to vie for streaming rights. Apple had previously negotiated for the streaming rights to Big Ten athletic events, including football and basketball, 9to5mac said. The conference’s decision to add USC and UCLA earlier this summer has renewed Apple’s interest in the sporting event, as per The Athletic. What Happened: The billionaire entrepreneur sold 7.92 million Tesla shares valued at nearly $6.85 billion, taking into account Friday’s closing price of $864.51. The shares were sold on Aug. 5 in 55 transactions, according to the filings. Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk said he sold shares of the automaker to avoid an emergency sale in the “hopefully unlikely” event Twitter Inc forces his buyout deal to close. Musk confirmed that he was done selling in response to a question on Twitter. The entrepreneur said, “In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners don’t come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock. AppLovin submitted a non-binding proposal to combine with Unity. The Palo Alto, California-based company believes the combination would boost shareholder value and “create an unprecedented full-stack solution for developers to create, monetize, measure and grow games.” The proposal cites increased scale, synergy value creation, capacity for strategic investments, diverse and liquid shareholder base, and shareholder value creation as reasons for the deal to be approved. 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