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Digital Media Company Group Nine Buys Lifestyle Publisher PopSugar

PopSugar Inc an American media and technology company that is also the parent to the media property PopSugar, the shopping platform ShopStyle, and a monthly subscription business PopSugar Must Have was acquired by Group Nine, on Tuesday.The companies said the latest acquisition happened with a belief that they can spread their network and arrange a bigger scale in order to do better in selling online ads (Facebook and Google are rulers in this field so far).Sources familiar with the whole...

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Bitcoin to Shine Once Liquidity Crisis Gets Triggered

The global dollar shortage is a looming crisis that doesn’t get much media attention. Instead, we keep hearing about the trade war and the seesawing stock market but almost nobody talks about the biggest problem that overshadows them all. There’s a shortage of dollars in the global financial system. China, one of the countries that sorely needs dollars, has been boosting its gold reserves over the last ten months. According to economist Luke Gromen, the Asian giant may be planning to use...

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Ripple CEO sieht Libra erst 2023 auf dem Markt

Facebooks Libra ist weiterhin der kontroverseste Altcoin des Jahres. Nun wagt sich Brad Garlinghouse, CEO von Ripple, hervor und sieht Libra nicht vor 2023 auf dem Markt. Sollte er richtig liegen, dürfte Libra zum größten Problemfall werden, den Zuckerberg bisher kreierte.Crypto News: Ripple CEO sieht Libra erst 2023 auf dem MarktEs bleibt weiterhin offen, ob der Markt überhaupt einen zentralen Cryptocoin von Facebook akzeptieren wird. Und damit ist nicht nur der Cryptomarkt gemeint, auch die...

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QuadrigaCX Founder’s Widow Will Surrender Over $9 Million in Assets to Repay Users

Jennifer Robertson, the widow of QuadrigaCX founder Gerald Cotten, has confirmed that she will hand over more than $9 million (12 million CAD) in assets. She has made this move to compensate the users of the now-defunct crypto exchange. The assets will be transferred to EY Canada, the bankruptcy trustee for the defunct exchange.On October 7, Robertson announced in a personal statement explaining that she will transfer the vast majority of her estate assets. These assets were previously valued...

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Trump Aside, FAANG Stocks Saw $629 Billion Rise in 2019 So Far

Anybody who knows anything about the U.S. Stock Market is already familiar with FAANG. An acronym for the five biggest, most popular and impressive tech stocks with significant performance, FAANG stocks have been trailblazers for more than a few years now.They’ve been so certain that people have largely formed a habit of buying into any of the five companies – Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX) and Google’s (GOOGL) parent company, Alphabet – as a completely sure way of...

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Block.one Unveils EOSIO 2.0 With New Developer Tools, Enhanced Performance and Security

EOSIO developer Block.one has recently unveiled the second version of the platform making it faster, simpler, and secure to build on EOSIO. One of the major roadblocks in blockchain development is the speed of execution of smart contracts, and EOSIO 2.0 aims to address this issue.Speaking on the launch, Block.one CTO Dan Larimer said:“Eosio 2 rc1 is officially available for the community to download and utilize on testnets and even non-critical EOS nodes. Assuming no major issues this will be...

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Facebook’s Libra Will Be Delayed For At Least 3 Years, Believes Ripple CEO

Photo: ShutterstockWhen Facebook announced it is going with its own cryptocurrency Libra back in June, the CEO of Ripple Labs Inc., a US-based technology company, Brad Garlinghouse, was one of its first open supporters.Actually, he was so thrilled by the whole project and all the ‘fuss’ it had gathered in the crypto community that he decided to send the champagne to the Zuckerberg & Co.Be it as it may, a hard times has come to Libra, even before it actually came to circulation. As we had...

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Bitcoin-Friendly Japan Clarifies Stance on Crypto Donations – It’s Legal

In a clear example of tech evolving faster than the law can adapt, a Japanese minster has confirmed that crypto donations are now legal due to a classification loophole. According to Reuters, on Tuesday, Sanae Takaichi, the internal affairs and communications minister of Japan, noted the newfound ‘legality’ of crypto donations. She specifically highlighted their use within elections, remarking that cryptocurrencies were not subject to the stringent political fund’s control law; a statute...

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NBA’s Sacramento Kings Launches Industry’s First Token to Reward Loyal Fans

The NBA’s Sacramento Kings has announced that they will roll out their new ‘Kings Token’ for fan rewards. That makes them the first NBA team to create a reward program based on blockchain.Announced on October 7, Kings Token was created in partnership with Blockparty. Blockparty is a blockchain platform that manages live event ticketing, tokenized gamification and fan engagement. Blockparty’s chief development officer, Vladislav Ginzburg, explained:“In our opinion, the blockchain has a role in...

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Informationsaustausch: Schweiz sendet 3 Millionen Kontodaten ins Ausland

2018: Die Schweiz tauscht mit 75 Staaten Konto-Informationen aus. Im nächsten Jahr wird sich das Netzwerk der Partnerstaaten der Schweiz weiter auf rund 90 Staaten vergrössern. Es braucht weder eine Anfrage noch ein ausgefülltes Formular. Die Eidgenössische Steuerverwaltung (ESTV) teilt vollautomatisch und versendete im Jahr 2018 mehr Daten von mehr als 3 Millionen Konti an ausländische Behörden und authorisierte Finanzinstitute. Dies ist...

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