FinTech

Apple Inc. (AAPL) has had a great year in the stock market and all sentiments point to the possibility of even further improvement in the coming weeks. Already, AAPL has been crowned the best performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA) so far, as it has recorded YTD growth of over 43%. On Oct. 10, prices slightly crossed $230, setting a new dividend-adjusted all-time high and cemented a new market cap of $1.04 trillion.One of the biggest drivers for AAPL’s impressive drive is...

As far as the stock market is concerned, Apple (AAPL) has had a pretty great 2019 so far. Already Apple’s stock has surged more than 43% this year alone, easily crowning it as the best performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial average. Consequently, even though the Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has a larger market cap, Apple has so far performed better and also beat out other FAANG stocks including Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, and Google’s parent Alphabet.One of the major reasons ascribed to...

Even though there might be more than a few worthy contenders, Google (GOOGL) is one of the world’s most popular companies and has been that way for many years. However, If we decide to narrow down the “qualifiers” to just tech or internet companies, then the number of contenders drastically drops, leaving Google somewhere in the first few. The tech giant with its hands in several cookie jars is also one of the world’s most successful companies.Google is currently into software and hardware...

Things do not seem to be going as planned for Facebook’s Libra as Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify before the US Congress later in the month. This was revealed by the Chairwoman of the United States House Committee on Financial Services Maxine Waters (D) in a press statement yesterday. The Chairwoman indicated that a letter had been sent to the Social media giant in July “requesting an immediate moratorium on the implementation of Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency, Libra, and digital...

When Facebook‘s cryptocurrency Libra started struggling with keeping its co-workers to keep partners on board and all of the institutions happy, an alternative called OpenLibra came to address some of Libra’s potential flaws.OpenLibra is described as an “open platform for financial inclusion,” with a tagline: “Not run by Facebook” and it was announced at Ethereum Foundation‘s Devcon 5 conference in Osaka, Japan.Be it as it may, thirty blockchain companies and nonprofit organizations decided...

After long waiting, Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally officially confirmed that its upcoming next-generation console will indeed be called PlayStation 5 and will be ‘launching in time for Holiday 2020’.We have already reported of Microsoft and Sony that decided to merge in order to fight competition from Amazon and Google in the provision of cloud gaming services that are expected to take the gaming world by storm in the near future.Playstation never had imaginative names. Since the...

All over the world, financial technology is one of the most potent and growing industries, with the power to not only improve but also completely disrupt the traditional financial sector. There almost always is a new fintech focused firm springing up every day at different corners of the world, to not only solve certain problems that have existed for so long but also to create better effectiveness and efficiency. So far, however, they have been successful because there is a very real and...

Popular messaging app Telegram updated the terms of service on its website on Tuesday with a new page for its yet-to-be-launched Gram wallet and token.The only link which has been publicly identified before now has been the Simple Agreement for Token (SAFT) registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in March 2018 which lists Telegram, Pavel Durov and Nikolai Durov ( the telegram developers) in the filing.Late last month the alpha version of the wallet of the...

Zwischen Dienstag und Freitag dieser Woche ist es wieder so weit: Die Ethereum (ETH)-Entwicklerkonferenz Devcon findet zum fünften Mal statt und beehrt diesmal das japanische Osaka. Mit dabei ist die Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). Darunter verbergen sich Größen wie Microsoft und Fujitsu, die ein ehrgeiziges Ziel verfolgen: Unternehmen sollen mehr Ethereum nutzen, indem die EEA dafür Standards...

Ein Bitcoin im Messenger: Am 31. Oktober startet der beliebte Messengerdienst Telegram mit seinem GRAM Token. Bereits seit einigen Monaten werden immer wieder neue Informationen über die neue Kryptowährung von Telegram veröffentlicht. Nun rückt der voraussichtliche Start des Telegram Open Networks (TON) in greifbare Nähe. Der internationale Messaging-Dienst kommt damit...