Bloomberg US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc has a new banking partner in Britain that will provide real-time payments for customers, three months after losing the service when it broke with Barclays Plc. The San Francisco-based firm, which lost its Barclays account in July, is now a client of ClearBank, a lender that started operations in 2017, according to a person …

Bloomberg Now that Microsoft has restored some of its former glory, the company is going for an even more unlikely comeback: rewriting the history of its much-maligned phone business. Three years after retreating from the smartphone business, Microsoft took the wraps off the Surface Duo, a dual-screened handheld computing device coming in time for Christmas 2020. Yes, it makes phone …

Bloomberg A British company says it’s building the world’s first “vertiport” for electric aircraft in Singapore, an early step towards a global network for flying taxis. Essex-based Skyports Ltd plans to show off the vertical take-off and landing station at Marina Bay during the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress from October 21-25. Germany’s Volocopter GmbH will bring along its electric …