Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Libra has been rebranded “Diem” in a renewed effort to gain regulatory approval by stressing the project’s independence. Plans for Libra, first ...

Carrie was a managing editor at CNET focused on breaking and trending news. She'd been reporting and editing for more than a decade, including at the National Journal and Current TV. Facebook is ...

Last year’s announcement by Facebook that it would be launching a cryptocurrency was met with a lot of hype and the reason for that is not far-fetched. It marked an embrace of cryptocurrency by one of ...

The ripples of the Libra effect are beginning to lap against the shores of Europe, with French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire suggesting that Europe should throw its hat into the ring and launch its ...

German Finance Minister says that policymakers cannot accept “parallel currencies” like Facebook's proposed Libra and must reject them clearly. As reported by Reuters, on Sept. 17, German Vice ...

Facebook unveiled plans Tuesday for a new global cryptocurrency called Libra, pledging to deliver a stable virtual money that lives on smartphones and could bring over a billion "unbanked" people into ...

Leading up to the expected launch of its first digital coin, The Libra Association announced last week that Saumya Bhavsar is the new general counsel for its payment system, Libra Networks. The hire ...