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Bitcoin: A 21st Century Currency Explained By a Wall Street Veteran
February 8th, 2016
Jason Leibowitz is a former Wall Street professional who pivoted careers in 2014 to focus full-time on digital currency. In this paper, Leibowitz answers questions about how bitcoin was created, how it works and why it matters. It has been ...
Apple ordered to pay $625 million in patent dispute
February 4th, 2016
Apple ordered to pay $625 million in patent dispute with VirnetX Apple Inc must pay VirnetX Holding Corp more than $625 million (428 million pounds) for using the patent licensing company’s Internet security technology without permission in its FaceTime ...
5 Ways To Turn Facebook Messenger Into Your Best Customer Service Tool
February 1st, 2016
A lot of your customers are on Facebook—and soon all of them will have the opportunity to message your business. According to Nielsen the Facebook messenger app was the fastest growing app of 2015. Your customers are on Facebook ...
BaFin has published a report on FinTechs: Young IT companies on the financial market
February 1st, 2016
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) of Germany, has published a report on the topic FinTechs: Young IT companies on the financial market. According to BaFin, an internal BaFin project group started work on the topic ...
The digital revolution on the finance industries
January 29th, 2016
EU experts and stakeholders discussed the impact of the digital revolution on the finance industries, market participants and consumers at a recent event organised by ACCA (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and Deloitte in Brussels Internet and digital ...
Why Bitcoin Isn’t Dead
January 28th, 2016
Milo Yiannopoulos, the technology editor for Breitbart.com, a global news site for independent and conservative-leaning thinkers, admits he first believed the recent media coverage that bitcoin was dead due to Mike Hearn’s declaration that such was the case. But ...
Which country is the World’s Favorite New Tax Haven?
January 28th, 2016
The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven Is the United States Moving money out of the usual offshore secrecy havens and into the U.S. is a brisk new business. Last September, at a law firm overlooking San Francisco Bay, Andrew ...
CySec announced administrative fine of €156.000 on a Cyprus Investment Firm
January 27th, 2016
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued a press release to inform that: The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (the ‘CySEC’) wishes to inform investors that, at its meeting held on October 12, 2015, decided ...
UK tax avoidance: Google looks ‘to pay three times more tax’ in France than in UK
January 26th, 2016
Google is said to be negotiating a tax settlement with France worth three times more than it paid the British Exchequer even though it employs thousands more staff in the UK. The UK arm generates about three times as ...
Twitter to Revamp Leadership Under CEO Jack Dorsey
January 25th, 2016
Alex Roetter, head of engineering, and Kevin Weil, product chief, are among the four executives who are leaving Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Jack Dorsey is revamping his top ranks as he tries to find ways to revive the social media company and earn ...
