A growing trend in the financial technology world has been a continuous push towards consolidation where the bigger fish is acquiring the smaller fish. There is also an increasing number of interesting startups coming up. The acquisitions happen for the involved companies to enjoy enhanced economies of scale in a business model where all transactions bring incremental returns.However, on December 3, a startup that built the concept of consolidation into its basic DNA raised another funding...
Read More »NYSE-Listed Silvergate Is the Year’s Winner in Both Traditional and Crypto Sector
As we are coming to the year’s end we somehow always tend to look in the past to reconcile what was good and what wasn’t. Speaking of the IPOs, we can surely say this year was marked by numerous IPO failures with more than half of stock market debuts now trading below their initial offering.We can just mention hail-raiding companies as are Uber and Lyft who were probably the biggest losers of the year. However, there were also plenty of unicorns that got smashed in 2019 including Peloton (the...
Read More »Report: Number of Cryptocurrency Funds Decreases As Retail Investors Drive The Market
The number of cryptocurrency funds has been decreasing over the last year, as per a recent report. This has caused some to raise the notion that institutional interest in the market is slowing down, while retail interest is the main driver. However, given the industry’s brief history, could this be the case?Cryptocurrency Funds ClosingBloomberg recently reported on somewhat worrying statistics regarding cryptocurrency funds. Per the report, almost 70 such hedge funds have closed this year...
Read More »Verizon and AWS Announce 5G Partnership
Qualcomm on Tuesday officially announced its next-generation flagship processor for phones. Dubbed the Snapdragon 865 the processor is still in need of a separate 5G modem to enable 5G instead of an integrated 5G modem built right into the chipset. Traditionally, that means more expensive, power-hungry phones than an integrated solution.However, at the Amazon’s event held in Las Vegas called AWS re:Invent, there were plenty of other solutions. Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg went on to discuss the...
Read More »How a Harvard Dropout Created ‘Amazon of South Korea’
While it may sound like a story out of the movies or motivational books that many people read today, the story of Bom Kim who is the founder of Coupang, a $9 billion electronic commerce company has been inspiring through an through. Coupang has been described by many to be South Korea’s “Amazon”, an appellation that hasn’t been accorded to any other company; at least not yet. Coupang has been one of those companies that have had a history of disruption and reinvention which has helped make it...
Read More »Android Vulnerability May Cost More than You Think as It Affects Wallet and Banking Data
If you are an Android user, you probably have been dealing with a lot of pre-cautious measures aimed at protecting your phone from viruses and bugs. However, there is new trouble in the house – and it won’t erase your contact list. Even worse. It will erase your bank account (or, should we say, erase the money you have). If you have a fully patched Android phone, be warned. Researchers from security firm Promon reported in a post that there is a vulnerability that enables hostile apps to...
Read More »Blockchain in Healthcare Symposium Event Overview
In health care industry there is a massive opportunity for a Blockchain revolution to lead a digital transformation from medical records, to pharmaceutical supply chains to smart contracts for payment distributions. There are plenty of opportunities to leverage this technology. Many healthcare companies are currently working on or have already released blockchain-based systems to improve healthcare for both professionals and patients.The adoption of the blockchain technology could save the...
Read More »State Street Cuts Down DLT Developer Team as It Adjusts Its Blockchain Strategy
In what seems like an about-face, global banking custodian State Street has drastically cut down its Decentralized Ledger Technologies team, as sources indicate. Rather than focus on building a complete DLT ecosystem from scratch which hitherto before now had been the strategy that State Street pursued, the custodian has decided to focus on digital assets which include tokenized stocks and bonds as well cryptocurrencies. Such an approach is to be applied instead of a bottom-up strategy which...
Read More »Cardano (ADA) Price Analysis: Risk of Additional Downsides
ADA price started a fresh decline after it failed to surpass the $0.0420 resistance against the US Dollar.The price is currently declining and trading below the $0.0400 support area.There is a descending channel forming with resistance near $0.0375 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken).The price is likely to accelerate losses below the $0.0355 and $0.0350 support levels in the near term.Cardano price is following a downtrend against the US Dollar and bitcoin. ADA price could continue to...
Read More »$1.5 Million Worth Of Cryptocurrency Seized By Australia’s Border Force
The Australian Border Force (ABF) has recently assisted in the apprehension of a couple for allegedly transporting MDMA. After seizing all drugs, the authorities found over $1.5 million worth of cryptocurrencies, which officials believe is the most substantial amount ever caught of its kind.Drug Transportation and Cryptocurrency InvolvementThe Australian Federal Police and WA Police Force recently worked together on a case in Perth for drug transportation, according to a report. It says that...
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