On April 21st, 2021 with 3 comments
Amazon One is now testing its palm-scanning payment technology in Whole Foods, starting with a single store in Amazon's home city of Seattle. The Verge...
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On April 20th, 2021 with 24 comments
PayPal on Tuesday will begin allowing select customers of its Venmo app to buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrencies as consumers increasingly look for ways to pile...
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On April 20th, 2021 with 37 comments
Online electronics retailer Newegg said it is now accepting dogecoin as a method of payment. From a report: Customers will be able to complete transactions...
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On April 19th, 2021 with 204 comments
Google shifted more than $75.4 billion in profits out of the Republic using the controversial "double-Irish" tax arrangement in 2019, the last year in which it...
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On April 18th, 2021 with 211 comments
"The mania that drove crypto assets to records as Coinbase went public last week turned on itself on the weekend," report Bloomberg — as the price of...
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On April 18th, 2021 with 28 comments
Gizmodo reports:
The latest big name to get in on the NFT craze is former intelligence contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, who on Friday auctioned...
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On April 16th, 2021 with 110 comments
Dogecoin has seen its price rise by a factor of five over the last week. Yesterday, it was trading at $0.13. Today, it's one of the world's 10 most valuable...
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On April 16th, 2021 with 106 comments
Regulators in Massachusetts are seeking to revoke Robinhood's broker-dealer license in the state, after accusing the company of failing to properly account for...
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On April 15th, 2021 with 197 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Charles Schwab is suing one of its former customers after the retail brokerage allegedly sent more than $1.2 million to an account...
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On April 14th, 2021 with 43 comments
Dogecoin, the virtual currency that originally started as an internet meme more than seven years ago, has surged more than 85% in the last 24 hours and is...
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On April 12th, 2021 with 25 comments
HSBC has banned customers of its online share-trading platform from buying or moving into their accounts MicroStrategy stock, calling it a "virtual currency...
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On April 9th, 2021 with 35 comments
Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO, listed fintech as one of the "enormous competitive threats" to banks in his annual shareholder letter released...
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On April 7th, 2021 with 122 comments
Starlink opened up pre-orders for its service in February for a $99 deposit, but it doesn't appear that the company plans to offer any kind of tiered plan to...
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On April 6th, 2021 with 136 comments
A thousand years ago, when money meant coins, China invented paper currency. Now the Chinese government is minting cash digitally, in a re-imagination of money...
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On April 5th, 2021 with 109 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Prices of NFTs, the digital certificates that have taken the art and collectibles world by storm this year, have...
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On March 30th, 2021 with 23 comments
"Deliveroo is set to begin one of the largest IPOs on the London Stock Exchange in a decade," writes fermion. "It has reduced its valuation in response to...
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On March 29th, 2021 with 189 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report from Motherboard, written by Ben Munster: When you buy an NFT for potentially as much as an actual house, in most cases...
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On March 29th, 2021 with 18 comments
Visa said its payments network will use a stablecoin backed by the U.S. dollar to settle transactions, as cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology gain more...
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On March 26th, 2021 with 24 comments
phalse phace shares a report from CNBC: WeWork has agreed to go public through a merger with blank-check firm BowX Acquisition Corp in a deal that values the...
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On March 26th, 2021 with 25 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Robinhood is building a platform to "democratize" initial public offerings (IPOs), including its own, that...
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On March 26th, 2021 with 70 comments
The US should establish a multimillion-dollar research program on solar geoengineering, according to the country's national science academy. The Guardian...
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On March 25th, 2021 with 331 comments
RoccamOccam shares a report from The New York Post: Some low-income families of color in Oakland will soon receive $500 a month in no-strings-attached cash as...
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On March 25th, 2021 with 67 comments
The Bank of England has unveiled the new 50-pound note featuring mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing, who helped the Allies win World War II...
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On March 25th, 2021 with 18 comments
A new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicates that asset management giant Fidelity is seeking to create a bitcoin exchange-traded...
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On March 23rd, 2021 with 9 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CoinDesk: Uniswap, the leading decentralized exchange (DEX) on Ethereum and a centerpiece of the $42 billion...
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On March 23rd, 2021 with 59 comments
phalse phace writes: During today's "Intel Unleashed: Engineering the Future" webcast, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger gave an update on the company's future plans and...
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On March 21st, 2021 with 96 comments
Monty Python alumnus John Cleese "is going to be selling an illustration of the Brooklyn Bridge he did on his iPad as an NFT," reports Nick Bilton in Vanity...
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On March 17th, 2021 with 155 comments
The FCC has slapped two Texas-based telemarketers for $225 million after making approximately 1 billion robocalls to people across the U.S. It marks the...
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On March 17th, 2021 with 80 comments
According to CNBC, Morgan Stanley is the first big U.S. bank to offer its wealth management clients access to bitcoin funds. From the report: The investment...
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On March 17th, 2021 with 88 comments
On Fortune's Leadership Next podcast yesterday, Visa CEO Alfred Kelly said that the payment processing behemoth is willing to facilitate not only bitcoin...
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