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Google‘s parent company Alphabet has hit a new milestone with its market hitting one trillion dollars. Google’s is the fourth global company to attain this feat just after Sundar Pichai became the CEO of Alphabet in December 2019.On Thursday, January 16 closing, the Alphabet stock was trading at $1450 with its market cap striking $1 trillion. In the last year, Alphabet’s stock has surged nearly 50% giving handsome returns to the investors. Thus, Alphabet stock was a shining start in 2019’s...

Major crypto exchange Binance has announced a new Binance USD (BUSD) conversion function on its platform. Beginning immediately, users can now instantly convert a select number of stablecoins into the BUSD.Binance BUSD ConversionAccording to the announcement, the supported stablecoins for the new feature include Paxos Standard (PAX), USD Coin (USDC), TrueUSD (TUSD) and Tether’s USDT. For the first three, the announcement states that conversion to BUSD will be settled at 1:1. Binance will...

The world’s largest job and recruiting website Glassdoor has published its annual list of the 50 best jobs in America for 2020. The top seven spots on Glassdoor’s list of best jobs are taken by tech jobs that appeared there 20 times.The list begins with a front-end engineer outranking data scientist that was holding the top spot since 2016. Making the list of best jobs, Glassdoor considers the following factors: a very strong salary of over $100,000, over 13,000 open positions around the...

Bitwise Bitcoin ETF proposal has been withdrawn. The cryptocurrency asset management firm indicated that it had submitted a note to the U.S. SEC. Bitwise said that the withdrawal request is “consistent with the public interest and protection of investors”. This shows that the firm is studying the situation at this time. The global head of research told:“We did indeed withdraw the application. This is a procedural step, and we intend to refile our application at an appropriate time.”It also...

Cryptocurrency scammers are quite active on Instagram in London, according to Britain-based users.Scammers Are Up To Their Same Old TricksNew advertisements featuring the face and likeness of Martin Lewis – an alleged financial expert in the London area – have been discovered on Instagram promoting potential cryptocurrency scams. These scams discuss a “revolutionary bitcoin home-based opportunity” that can change your life (and the lives of others) forever.One of the other tactics these...

Analysis streaming out from Wall Street suggests that the year 2020 has a lot of profitable stocks available for investors who choose such companies as Facebook, Verizon, and McDonald’s, among others.Key PointsHigh yield stocks up for grabs in 2020.Facebook’s politically-induced woes may finally pay off in 2020.Verizon’s commitment to its core values makes it a company to watch out for in 2020.McDonald’s introduces innovative ideas that are stock boosters.McDonald’s to Become a More...

Instagram’s Boomerang has received an upgrade. Apart from looping, users of the social networking platform will be able to do a bit more with their videos. The platform has introduced new tools to try to compete with TikTok.The features have been expected by many users. One of the features is the trimming effect. This improves playback control for videos when editing. Other effects include “SlowMo” which reduces playback by 50%, “Echo” which produces blurry playback and “Duo” which produces...

Recently, the new fintech terms came to town. We are already used to certain terms such as FAANG, FANG and even FAAMNG. When it comes to stocks, and especially technology-related ones, the times are certainly “a-changing”.2020 began already as a pretty turbulent one. With great geopolitical tensions, an unsure trade deal between the U.S. and China, Donald Trump’s impeachment (moreover, Meghan and Harry are leaving the Crown) – it seems that there is going to be a pretty tough year for big...

If there’s one thing that is absolutely sure about the general Bitcoin community, it’s the bullishness. BitPay Chief Commercial Officer Sonny Singh has now added to this bullishness with a $20,000 Bitcoin prediction for 2020. Singh has joined a long list of industry enthusiasts who believe the sky is only the beginning for the world’s king coin.$20,000 Prediction for Bitcoin in 2020In a recent conversation with Bloomberg’s Taylor Riggs which took place on Wednesday, Singh spoke quite...

2020 could quite easily be a great year for FAAMNG stocks if things continue the way they currently are. FAAMNG comprises Facebook (FB), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Netflix (NFLX), and Google’s parent company Alphabet (GOOG and GOOGL). These are the biggest tech and internet stocks in the world.FAAMNG Stocks in 2020A publication from The Arora Report shows the current money flow into these companies via their stocks. Dividing each stock into several data points, the table...