Libra (LBA) & Facebook

Despite the fact that Facebook has faced numerous challenges tackling sensitive ads in the political election period, yesterday FB stock started to rise and showed some signs of recovering.Facebook (FB) stock price showed signs of recovering from the falling trend that had started forming before the market closed yesterday. The stock started reversing after hitting $207 where it is currently trading at $210.76 per share at the time of news reporting. The volatility on the Facebook stock is...

Within the initiative of fact-checking, Reuters will check English and Spanish language content on Facebook and Instagram and publish the results on the Reuters blog.The world’s largest news agency Reuters and Facebook have launched fact-checking service. The initiative aims at verifying the authenticity of user-generated photos, videos, headlines and identifying misinformation on Facebook and Instagram.Notably, for the initiative, Reuters has partnered with Facebook’s Third-Party...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Facebook is going to come to Europe with an official visit this month. At the same time, FB stock is experiencing not the best period.Facebook (FB) stock continued to trade lower on Tuesday closing at $207.15 from the previous monthly high of $224. At the time of writing, the price was around $210. This comes as Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is preparing for visiting Europe to meet with EU officials in the course of the month.Facebook Stock Price Movements:...

As it tries to sanitize the playing field, the FTC has announced an investigation into some of the biggest tech companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.The Federal Trade Commission, FTC, has announced its decision to begin an investigation targeted at some tech giants. The Commission said that the investigation is to shine its spotlight on these companies’ acquisitions carried out in the past, that may not have been thoroughly scrutinized by the regulator. The tech giants...

President Trump called four big tech companies with trillion-dollar market caps, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon, the MAGA club. MAGA is also a short form of ‘Make America Great Again’, a favorite slogan of Trump and his supporters.United States President Donald Trump called out four tech giants for becoming a trillion-dollar companies – thanks to his merits. And not just that. We all remember his slogan ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA), right? Well, he went that far to call Microsoft,...

Bitcoin price and the overall crypto market reacted positively after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell recently stressed on the importance of private crypto-based transactions. He said that the Fed is working on a number of projects for digital currencies.Bitcoin price surged over 5% on Tuesday, February 11, pushing it to a five-month high above $10,300 levels. With this move, BTC has surged nearly 50% since the beginning of 2020. At press time, BTC is trading 5.6% up for a price of $10, 304 with a...

With China set to release its new digital version of the yuan, the country’s national fiat currency, the U.S. has sworn to boost its technology and artificial intelligence spending to ensure it’s able to counter the nation’s attempts and keep itself in a competitive position.China Could Be Pushing the U.S.’s ButtonsThis could mean working harder to ensure a digital currency for the U.S. As it stands, things like Libra and even bitcoin (BTC) have regulators on edge and split right down the...

Facebook (FB) stock price is moving higher despite all the noise around the company partially caused by Elon Musk’s negative position toward it.Last few years we are witnessing Facebook getting numerous objections from many sides. It all culminated when its CEO Mark Zuckerberg last year publicly admitted that the company won’t ever be included in checking the credibility of political parties that are advertising on the social network. Of course, it all was sparked even more when it’s...

Libra was first announced approximately eight months ago in June of 2019, and for the most part, the reception has been mixed.Why Is Libra Losing So Much Support?Many banks, regulators and members of the public have scoffed at the idea that Facebook – the parent company behind Libra – would seek to enter the financial fray. With so much scandal under its belt in the past two years alone, one wonders how such a venture could even exist, and that a company like Facebook would even dare to...

Thanks to the partnership between Zawadi and Eventbrite, event organizers will have a safer and faster way to deliver tokenized tickets to buyers.A mobile ticket delivery platform Zawadi announced its partnership with the U.S. event management and ticketing website Eventbrite. The integration means event managers who are using Eventbrite can now give out tokenized tickets to their participants through social messaging apps as are WhatsApp, Facebook‘s Messenger, and Line Messenger.As per their...