The fraudulent Ripple scams portray Garlinghouse, seemingly inviting the public to participate in an “XRP” cryptocurrency token giveaway. By forwarding a small sum, the unwitting victim is guaranteed a good chance of winning an even larger fortune, but as you would expect, the crooks disappear with their ill-gotten loot. Bill Gates and Richard Branson have…
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The cofounders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have just announced that they will be stepping down from their roles in Alphabet. The current CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, will now take over the mother company as well as the next CEO. Both Sergey and Larry will remain shareholders and on the board of…
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It has been nearly two weeks since Google threw its hat into the competitive ring of large tech companies trying to leverage their respective customer bases by associating in some way with the payments industry. Financial institutions control the payment arena from the consumer through the merchant sector, but banks tend to be slow in…
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Alphabet Inc's Google just announced that it will start offering personal checking accounts in 2020 via its Google Pay application, a project supported by Citigroup and a credit union at Stanford University. The information comes from Reuters. The project is named Cache and is a direct rival to Apple and Facebook, two giants who are…
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In the past five weeks, we have witnessed Bitcoin take a mighty fall from grace, and then rise from the ashes to record its third greatest gain in a single day. These sudden changes in direction should not come as a surprise. Bitcoin has been labeled the most volatile asset class in history for good…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for July 26, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Hi Everyone, One question that investors constantly have to deal with is how much of the value of an…
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Payment systems provider Paysafe Group (LON:PAYS) announced that it has teamed up with the world’s biggest video streaming platform YouTube. LeapRate reminds that Paysafe and Google formed a partnership last year, when paysafecard was announced as a payment method across the Google Play store, in June 2018. Few months later, Google added the paysafecard payment…
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Huawei, one of China’s fastest growing and most prominent smartphone companies, has been “slaughtered” by Google. The US giant has banned Huawei from delivery of major software and tech services on Android, reports The Financial Times. Just in 2018, Huawei has shipped more than 200 million phones, all of which run on Google’s Android. The…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for April 30, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. There's an old adage in the financial markets: Sell in May and Go Away Of course, this doesn't necessarily…
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Is Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) considering a “Big Play” in Crypto-Land? As news begins to trickle in that high-tech giants like Google, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Samsung, and others have several efforts in the works to incorporate blockchain technology and possibly cryptocurrencies, as well, into their daily operating systems, speculation continues to mount as to what Amazon might be…
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