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PayPal Eyes Growth in New Alliances With Vodafone, America Movil
February 22nd, 2016
Mobile carriers are gateway to 740 million potential customers Payments business looks beyond e-commerce for revenue PayPal Holdings Inc. forged new mobile-wallet partnerships with telecommunications giants Vodafone Group Plc in Europe and America Movil SAB in Latin America, ...
Bitcoin: A 21st Century Currency Explained By a Wall Street Veteran
February 8th, 2016
Jason Leibowitz is a former Wall Street professional who pivoted careers in 2014 to focus full-time on digital currency. In this paper, Leibowitz answers questions about how bitcoin was created, how it works and why it matters. It has been ...
Germany’s Finance CEOs Don’t Think Bitcoin Will Go Mainstream
December 8th, 2015
A German telecommunications trade organization has published a new survey that shows little enthusiasm for bitcoin among financial executives. The survey, carried out by the research arm of the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom), was put ...
World’s largest law firms to be ‘lawyerless’ within five years
September 9th, 2015
Uber and Facebook cited as examples of what a future legal practice might look like Within the next five years the world’s largest law firms will not employ its own lawyers, is a bold prediction by the UK’s leading ...
Can Bitcoin Change Wi-Fi For the Better?
July 29th, 2015
It’s certainly not unusual in the bitcoin and blockchain industry to see several companies coalesce around a new use case for the technology. However, what may be novel about the sudden focus on Wi-Fi is the size and ubiquity ...
The Interface Companies of the Sharing Economy
July 17th, 2015
In the world of competitive sports, “bulletin board material” refers to when you collect negative comments from others and post then in public place to fire up your motivation. In my world, “bulletin board material” refers to comments that ...
Nasdaq closes at record high
June 19th, 2015
Good news for anyone who bought tech stocks on March 10, 2000. You’re finally making money! The Nasdaq soared 1.3% Thursday to an intraday record of 5,143.32, topping the previous all-time high of 5,132.52 from more than 15 years ago. The ...
We’re All Hedge Funds Now, Part 2: Tech Startups and Nigerian Bonds
March 27th, 2015
Watching formerly risk-averse investors adapt to a negative interest rate world is almost as much fun as watching Europe try to keep Greece and Germany in the same financial family. In each case, success depends on all the parties ...
Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor
February 3rd, 2015
The two companies are going to war over self-driving taxis. Uber faces an ever-growing cast of adversaries that includes dubious regulators, litigious drivers, hostile members of the press, and somewell-funded rivals. But the most significant threat to the app-based transportation company may be ...
Without US support, multinational tax crackdowns will fail
January 29th, 2015
It’s no secret that companies including Apple, Google, Amazon, Uber, Airbnb and Ikea seem to pay less than their fair share of tax in Australia. Despite booking huge revenues from sales to Australian customers they are able to reduce ...
