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McDonald’s (MCD) is one of the oldest and most popular fast food restaurant chains in the world and as with any other establishments that have been around as long, the company is constantly seeking ways to improve its service and the experience it gives customers. The 79-year-old restaurant has now announced the acquisition of Apprente, in a bid to improve its service using automated voice commands.Founded in 2017, Apprente is a Silicon Valley startup which focuses on the use of artificial...

Over the years, many investors have used several different methods and strategies, to ensure they have a strong enough position in the stock market. One sure way that pretty much guaranteed a significant passive income, was to buy FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google/Alphabet) stocks and just watch them grow, as they are wont to do.This method has driven not just profits, but a generally positive sentiment among investors for a few years. However now, it seems those glory days...

U.S. Stock Exchange Nasdaq has announced the listing of a new index that offers “real-time” tracking of blockchain projects within the decentralized finance (DeFi) segment. Dubbed as Defix, the index will track blockchain projects like MakerDao, Augur, Gnosis, Numerai, 0x and Amoveo.As per the official press release, the London-based Exante brokerage helped to launch Defix. Nasdaq has listed this Index under the ticker DEFX, which can also be tracked on Google and TradingView along with a...

Leading Cryptocurrency exchange Binance recently launched its Tether (USDT) backed futures trading platform. The platform which is still in the early testing phase is available by invitation only. A Reddit post indicates that the platform has already reached an all-time high of $150 million within the past twenty-four hours. The futures platform covers only the USDT/BTC platform at this time.This comes after Binances’ announcement of the creation of the testnet for the futures platform...

Bitcoin price started a major downside correction after it traded as high as $10,954 against the US Dollar.The price is currently trading near a major support area at $10,000, which holds the key.There is a major bullish trend line forming with support near $10,000 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair remains well supported on dips near the $10,000 and $9,800, below which it could gain bearish momentum.Bitcoin price is struggling to bounce back above...

As you probably know, technical analysis is not always right, but it’s correct most of the time. Three days ago while Bitcoin was trading around $10,600, our last analysis title suggested another re-test of the $10,000 level, when everyone was bullish, we saw this leg down coming-up.As you could notice, after getting rejected one more time by the crucial long-term descending yellow trend-line, started forming from the 2019 high at $13,880, Bitcoin plunged passed $10,000, marking the $9,880...

Cryptocurrency news keep coming hot for yet another week of interesting events as the altcoin market is seemingly waking up. However, the market is in no hurry to buy the news and it doesn’t appear that we will see another altcoin season any time soon.The last quarter of 2019 is ahead of us and it seems that we will sum up the year as a successful one for Bitcoin, which has recently stabilized around $10,000, given that no one predicted it earlier this year. Also, Bitcoin’s hash rate...

BitcoinWe saw an attempt to break through the $11,000 resistance but it failed and we came back to test the support at around $10,200. The entire market anticipates the convergence of the triangle and we also account for a possibility to retrace back to $9,200. Data shows that there are more sellers during this period but demand exists and it’s felt in the price. If the price remains above $10,000, this would be a positive sign going forward.EthereumAgainst the USD, we saw the completion of a...

The cryptocurrency market is more than a few years old now and is still waxing strong. Bitcoin, the first major decentralized digital asset was released back in 2009 and even though that’s about a decade ago, it might not be a very long time in the grand scheme of things.New innovation always comes with some skepticism and cryptocurrency is no different. With the crypto market, four main factors have been identified as the major factors stifling growth in the market. They are general...

Prolific Billionaire Jack Ma has stepped down as Chairman of Alibaba. After twenty years which has seen one of the biggest technology giants come from zero to hero, Ma has been one of the defining icons of the technology industry since the early days when no one thought that technology would be either this big or go this far in defining the human existence.He would remain on the board until the next Shareholders Annual General Meeting when it is expected that he will step down from the board...