FC Barcelona to finally release first standalone NFT

Jul 23, 2022 22:57 pm UTC| Sports Economy Business Life

FC Barcelona has launched its first standalone NFT in collaboration with BCN Visuals depicting Johan Cruyffs iconic flying kick and goal. Entitled In a way, Immortal, the NFT will be auctioned off at Sothebys on July...

Mercedes Benz launches blockchain-based data sharing platform Acentrik

Jul 23, 2022 22:56 pm UTC| Business Economy Technology

Mercedes Benz Groups Daimler South East Asia has produced its Ocean Protocol pilot-based Acentrik blockchain platform. A non-fungible token (NFT) represents each Acentrik dataset and a metadata hash is stored in...

Alfa Romeo F1 having difficulty securing Chinese sponsors despite Zhou Guanyu's inclusion

Jul 23, 2022 22:49 pm UTC| Sports Economy Business

Alfa Romeo Racing is beginning to see greater sponsorship interest from China though progress has been difficult, according to its team principal Frédéric Vasseur. Vasseur has acknowledged that despite...

Philadelphia 76ers to build privately funded arena for $1.3 billion

Jul 23, 2022 22:40 pm UTC| Sports Economy Business

The Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) will build a privately-funded arena named 76 Place located on a portion of the Fashion District in Center City. The sports and entertainment venue...

New Rendang Whopper to spice up Burger King meal in Singapore

Jul 23, 2022 22:30 pm UTC| Life Economy Business

Deliveroo customers can get to first sample the new Rendang Whopper, on top of the existing Rendang Tendergrill Chicken Burger and Double Rendang Beef Burger, until July 25. The Rendang Whopper upsized meal, which costs...

Why it's more important than ever for workplaces to have staff well-being plans

Jul 23, 2022 16:31 pm UTC| Business

A recent survey of New Zealand workplaces revealed more than a third have no workplace well-being plan in place. Yet it is necessary, now more than ever, for organisations to understand what a healthy work environment...

ANZ's takeover of Suncorp will reduce bank competition – but will that be enough to block it?

Jul 23, 2022 16:28 pm UTC| Business

Australia has one of the worlds most concentrated banking sectors, with its four biggest banks Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, Westpac and ANZ holding more about three-quarters of the market, It will...