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CFTC Grants Temporary Approval to Bitcoin Startup LedgerX
September 14th, 2015
LedgerX has received temporary approval from the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission to act as a swap execution facility. The bitcoin options startup applied for licensure last year and has received backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Google Ventures. ...
MasterCard Delivers Android Pay to Cardholders in the U.S
September 14th, 2015
MasterCard Digital Enablement Service (MDES) will power safe and secure payments with Android Pay Millions of MasterCard cardholders will soon have even more ways to make safe and convenient mobile payments. Today, Google announced that they are beginning to ...
PayPal Announces Launch of PayPal.Me Peer-to-peer Payments Similar to Square Cash or Bitcoin Wallets
September 4th, 2015
Receiving money from a friend, client or anyone else on PayPal just got a little bit easier. Today, the company announced the launch of PayPal.Me, a personal, vanity PayPal link that makes it easy to remind people to send ...
Russia’s Fist Just Clenched Around the Internet a Little Tighter
September 2nd, 2015
A new Russian law imposes restrictions on foreign Internet firms. It’s a feeling locals already know all too well. Global Internet firms operating in Russia wake up on Tuesday to a new era in Kremlin regulation. A law now ...
Visa joins firms betting on technology behind Bitcoin
August 13th, 2015
Move comes at a time when banks around the world are looking at ways to use the technology to make transactions more efficient and secure Visa Inc. will soon have a team of engineers at its Bengaluru office to ...
Will Law Firm Publishing Become Solely A Wire Service?
August 3rd, 2015
Vox columnist Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) believes the media is becoming a wire service. “…y guess is that within three years, it will be normal for news organizations of even modest scale to be publishing to some combination of their own websites, ...
Twitter’s Sales Exceed Analysts’ Estimates; Shares Climb
July 29th, 2015
Twitter Inc. reported second-quarter sales that topped analysts’ projections, a bright spot for the growth-challenged company as it seeks a new chief executive officer. Shares jumped as much as 12 percent. In the second quarter, revenue rose 61 percent ...
Finance Sector in the Dark Over Data Protection Changes
July 28th, 2015
With a quarter of businesses in finance and accountancy sector totally unaware of the EU General Data Protection Regulation we interviewed John Culkin, Director of Information Management, Crown Records Management to find out about the regulation and what financial ...
Apple wiped almost $40 billion from its value
July 23rd, 2015
The biggest technology rally since October was knocked cold, as disappointing earnings reports punished Microsoft Corp. and gave Apple Inc. its biggest loss this year. Five days after Google Inc.’s earnings spurred the largest one-day wealth creation by any ...
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 ...
