FinTech

The stocks of Microsoft Corp. rose 0.033% on Tuesday after Jefferies analyst Brent Thill said the next phrase:“It’s time for software investors to get picky.”Thill picked up the company’s coverage of the software sector at the beginning of the week with a swirl of rating and price target changes “to be more defensive in light of valuation and macroeconomic concerns.”In his research note, Thill says he remains positive on the software industry in general. But he highlights that there has to be...

Apple has officially revealed that its new OS is now available. Called the macOS Catalina, the release comes with more than a few new features which Apple promises will give its users an unmatched experience. Two of the major changes to the macOS are the addition of a new option called the Sidecar, as well as the discontinuation of the popular media access software, iTunes.Per the official Apple announcement, the Sidecar feature is a simple extension to the Mac screen. Specifically, it lets...

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...

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...

In what seems to be cooperation between two of the biggest organizations in technology, Microsoft and Intel have indicated their willingness to back the reward token of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance which is the сryptospace’s first open standards association which sets the standards for Ethereum’s blockchain architecture.The token was revealed at the annual Ethereum developers conference taking place in Osaka, Japan (Devcon 5) as a means of providing compensation for those who are involved...

Telegram is once again in the news, only this time, it doesn’t have to do with some fancy new partnership. The encrypted chap application is being used by hackers looking to potentially steal cryptocurrency.Telegram Has Had Its Ups and DownsThe thefts are occurring through a new form of malware known as the Masad Stealer, which searches through internet cookies, browser passwords and clipboard data. Hackers in charge can replace with data of their own, i.e. bitcoin or cryptocurrency addresses...

Telegram – the encrypted chat system that now boasts more than 30 million users – is partnering with crypto custodian platform Anchorage to ensure Telegram’s new cryptocurrency, the gram, is added to its list of token offerings.Is Telegram Set to Conquer Libra?Anchorage is one of the 28 governing bodies in the Libra Association. The bad news is that recently, PayPal – which has been one of Libra’s primary supporters through David Marcus, a former PayPal exec and the head of Facebook’s...

Facebook’s forthcoming digital currency, the Libra, is probably the most uncertain project in the cryptocurrency industry at the moment. Ever since the company announced its plans to issue the asset, there has been significantly heavy backlash both from the public and also from the U.S. Congress, so much that the earlier proposed date for early next year is quite shaky, if not completely impossible. Now, a crypto futures exchange firm seems to be taken advantage of all the uncertainty of the...

Apple recently announced and later released its new range of products including the iPhone 11 series. These products, especially when they are newly released, are usually priced considerably high, even though said prices may not necessarily quell what is now recognized as a persistent public hunger for the company’s new products. However, one of the industry’s top analysts has said that Apple will launch a much cheaper version, which should be publicly available sometime in the first quarter...

Anheuser-Busch InBev, currently the world’s largest brewing company by revenue, is trying to break big into many parts of Asia, with a considerable focus on China. The company which debuted its listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange about a week ago, is also interested in other markets such as South Korea, Vietnam and India as well. However, many who are familiar with the market in China, for example, are yet to see how the company could possibly break into a market that’s already mostly...