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Apriva & iPayment, Inc. Announce Mobile EMV Payment Solution
April 12th, 2016
Apriva, the leading provider of secure end-to-end wireless transaction processing solutions, and iPayment, Inc., a premier provider of payment solutions and processing services, today announced that they have extended their partnership to provide EMV capable solutions to small and mid-sized ...
The Panama Papers: This Is the Consequence of Centralized Money and Power
April 11th, 2016
Technologies such as the blockchain are enabling alternative ways of creating and distributing money outside central banks and states. If we don’t change the way money is created and distributed, we will never change anything. This is the core ...
Apple preps one-touch shopping for the mobile Web
March 25th, 2016
Apple is preparing to bring one-touch online shopping to the mobile Web later this year, enabling consumers with Safari browsers running on the consumer electronic group’s phones and tablets to use Apple Pay and TouchID to make a purchase. ...
Why Latin American economies are turning to bitcoin
March 17th, 2016
The economic prospects for Latin America in 2016 are grim. With political instability in some of the region’s largest economies, as well as a general slump in prices in oil and other commodities, businesses and consumers are facing a depression and, in the ...
Investing in Technology: Outlook and key themes for the technology sector in 2016
March 7th, 2016
Technology was one of the clear winners in 2015, amid a generally lacklustre year for stock markets. The Nasdaq finished the year nearly 6% ahead of the wider S&P 500 index. However, the strength has been confined to a ...
Microsoft, Google Join Rivals to Back Apple in FBI Fight
March 4th, 2016
Tech competitors argue privacy, security threatened in case San Bernardino shooting victim among those supporting Apple Tech giants including Microsoft Corp. and Google set aside often fierce rivalries to back Apple Inc. in its fight against a judge’s order ...
Bitcoin Technology Tested In Trial By 40 Big Banks
March 3rd, 2016
The technology behind Bitcoin is starting to make progress on Wall Street. By December, financial technology company R3 CEV had brought together a consortium of 42 banks to create standards and protocols for using blockchain technology in financial services. ...
Apple Goes to the Supreme Court
February 25th, 2016
The Justices should hear the e-book antitrust case. The Supreme Court may consider as early as Friday whether to take an appeal of one of the great antitrust abuses of recent decades, and the economic import is far larger ...
Google Isn’t Paying the ‘Google Tax’
February 19th, 2016
Close to four years ago, Europe began to notice that some of the world’s biggest technology companies were paying minimal tax on the billions of dollars they earned across the continent. Among those the U.K. and other governments criticized ...
Here’s what the future of bitcoin looks like — and it’s bright
February 15th, 2016
Bitcoin has been proclaimed dead 89 times. It has been labeled a Ponzi scheme and a failed experiment. Writers have argued for it to be forgotten and for developers to move on to greener pastures. But moving beyond this ...
