Jeanine Hightower-Sellitto, a former COO of a NASDAQ subsidiary, will develop Gemini’s marketplace to attract institutional investors. Former COO of major U.S. stock exchange NASDAQ subsidiary Jeanine Hightower-Sellitto has joined crypto exchange Gemini, the company revealed in a Medium post on Wednesday, Oct. 10. The U.S.-based Gemini, launched by the Winklevoss twins back in 2015, […]
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Losses caused by crypto exchange hacks hit $927 million in the first nine months of 2018, already 250 percent higher than throughout all of 2017. Losses caused by cryptocurrency exchange hacks hit $927 million in the first nine months of 2018, already 250 percent higher than throughout all of 2017, Reuters India reports October 10. […]
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Google chose an unlikely platform in their new video ad for Google Assistant to address whether or not cryptocurrency is money. Google entered the cryptocurrency-as-money debate on Tuesday, Oct. 9, arguing over its validity during an introductory video for a new feature from its Google Assistant tool. While demonstrating how its Call Screen caller ID […]
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An expert from the People’s Bank of China thinks the country has to study USD-backed cryptocurrencies and to launch its own yuan-backed stablecoin. The Chinese government should consider launching its own yuan-backed stablecoin despite the current ban on cryptocurrencies, an op-ed in Chinese financial journal CN Finance reports Tuesday, Oct. 9. An expert from the […]
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Hacked Japanese crypto exchange Zaif has announced its business plan with Fisco to provide financial support for affected customers’ assets. Hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif has announced an official plan to provide financial support for affected customers’ assets, in an official notice posted today, October 10. As previously reported, the exchange suffered a security breach […]
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The New York Attorney General and the Connecticut Attorney General are investigating the Google data breach that may have exposed the private data of at least 500,000 users. Google announced Monday (October 8) that it is shutting down Google+ after finding a security bug that made the data accessible to developers. In a blog post, Google said […]
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ShippingEasy has announced that it is integrating with Amazon’s Alexa to expedite package delivery for its eCommerce sellers customer base. The partnership with Amazon will allow eCommerce sellers to use their Alexa voice assistant device, or download the Alexa app on their smartphone, to carry out hands-free business shipping tasks, including managing orders, shipping orders, […]
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If data is the new oil, then it could be said that retailers are sitting on data gushers. After all, they have terabytes of data flowing across their various retail channels — and then use the insights that come from it to build better consumer experiences. It sounds elegant and obvious. The problem — Karen Webster noted in a recent conversation with […]
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Ridesharing company Uber is considering getting back into the grocery delivery game. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said that due to the company’s success in the delivery of food, which reached $6 billion in bookings earlier this year, it makes sense to take another look at the grocery market. “With Eats, we’re getting into the business of […]
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Mastercard has been awarded a patent for a proposed blockchain system that would support multiple types of currency. According to Coindesk, the patent describes how a firm may need to store different types of transaction data on the same platform, which is difficult to do on a single blockchain. So Mastercard wants to implement a […]
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