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• Coles Group confirmed plans to shift up to 1,000 back-office roles to India through a multi-year partnership with Accenture.
• Corporate overhead costs and multi-million-dollar technology investments are driving major ASX-listed firms to target lower international labour expenses.
• Offshoring strategies face rising competition from global digital platforms like Amazon alongside public backlash over local job losses.

The US Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut has charged three men from St Louis — Sedric Louis, John Davis, and Martel Williams — with conspiracy to interfere with commerce through robbery, alleging they plotted to break into a residence and force victims to transfer cryptocurrency linked to a multi-hundred-million-dollar Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) theft.

• Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) reported Q2 2026 revenue of $8.72 billion, down 11% year over year, with diluted EPS of $0.06.
• Streaming revenue increased 10% to approximately $3.1 billion and segment EBITDA rose 75% to $512 million, while Studios and advertising revenue declined.
• Media companies are managing shifts from traditional television toward streaming, while facing content costs, advertising changes, and regulatory scrutiny around consolidation.

Former Ethereum Foundation member Abbas Khan has stated that strong founders understand the foundation cannot help them find product-market fit, arguing that entrepreneurial success ultimately rests with the founders themselves and not with institutional support.

• Bitcoin miners generated US$875.35 million in July, up US$38.93 million from June’s US$836.41 million.
• Bitcoin hash price rose from US$29.01 to US$31.59 per PH/s over 30 days, improving revenue from computing power.
• Higher mining difficulty, BIP-110 signalling and competition for computing power remain key pressures across proof-of-work networks.

China's producer price index rose 3.5% year-on-year in July 2026, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, representing the latest in a series of consecutive monthly factory-gate price increases in the world's second-largest economy.

An anonymous cryptocurrency whale has opened a 20x leveraged long position targeting 500,000 Solana (CRYPTO:SOL) on Hyperliquid, the decentralised perpetual futures exchange, with an estimated notional value of approximately US$23 million at the time the position was identified.

• Samsung Electronics plans native stablecoin support through Samsung Wallet as its Galaxy AI device base targets 800 million.
• USD Coin (CRYPTO:USDC) had US$72.3 billion circulating on 27 July, while PayPal USD (CRYPTO:PYUSD) recently exceeded US$2.6 billion.
• Samsung has not confirmed the stablecoin, blockchain, custody model, eligible markets or launch date, leaving the final distribution model unclear.

Bitcoin's (CRYPTO:BTC) dominant chain has moved significantly ahead of the BIP-110 minority fork, with the breakaway chain now trailing by 18 blocks following the contested signalling point at block 961632.

Trump Media (NASDAQ:DJT) has mutually terminated its partnership with Crypto.com and special purpose acquisition company Yorkville Acquisition, ending the Trump Media Group CRO Strategy project that aimed to establish a publicly listed entity dedicated to acquiring and staking Cronos (CRYPTO:CRO).