Easy come, easy go? For XRP the maxim holds true into a new week. Bulls are no doubt looking wistfully at last week’s action, when the price rose more than 100 percent and headlines held promise over XRP’s adoption into (a bit) more mainstream, everyday financial life. As of this writing and into a hectic […]
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Australian shopping mall operator with 70 locations across the country is testing Power Ledger’s blockchain solution for solar energy management. Australian firm Vicinity has announced it will trial a blockchain solution for its energy network. The company revealed this Thursday, September 25 in an official press release. Vicinity – with more than $42 billion in […]
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eBay announced on Tuesday (Sept. 25) that it has started managing payments on its Marketplace platform in the U.S. In a press release, the company said that earlier this year, it announced plans to intermediate or manage the payments flow on its platform, and that it has now started doing that. “The introduction of eBay’s new […]
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On Sept. 20, the SEC requested more comments for the VanEck SolidX ETF case. On Sept. 20, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requested more comments on its decision on the listing and trading of a Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) created by New York-based firms VanEck and SolidX. Consequently, the regulator’s decision […]
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Paris: The Assemblée Nationale is debating about a new legal framework allowing ICOs to gain a ‘quality’ certification issued by the French monetary authority. Today, the Assemblée Nationale (the French parliament’s lower house) is initiating a debate about a legal project introduced last June by the Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, which […]
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Turo, the peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace company in San Francisco, has set its sights overseas, reportedly expanding into the U.K. According to reports citing Turo Chief Executive Andre Haddad, the U.K. is the company’s most searched destination when it comes to traveling outside of North America, thus the expansion into the market. “This makes us […]
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Fiserv, the global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced on Tuesday (Sept. 25) that it has agreed to acquire the debit card processing, ATM managed services and MoneyPass surcharge-free network of Elan Financial Services, a unit of U.S. Bancorp. In a press release, Fiserv said the acquisition – in which it is paying about $690 million […]
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The B2B side of Salesforce has always had a single data model of customers across the Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Pardot and other components. But that hasn’t been the case for the B2C side, where brands themselves had to implement the platform connectors to tie together different customer records across applications for point-to-point connectivity. In […]
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Combine visual smarts with digital context and you’ve created an online shopping method that can respond to consumer impulses and discovery in ways that can feel pleasingly intimate – and can even lead to significant profit boosts. That’s one angle through which you can view a recent development involving Google Lens. New Role for Lens […]
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Emergent Technology, the blockchain technology company, announced on Tuesday (Sept. 25) that it has made a strategic investment in T Stamp Inc. In a press release, Emergent Technology said T Stamp, which is known as Trust Stamp, makes artificial intelligence and biometric hashing technology for the purpose of verifying identities. Emergent Technology said it is […]
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