Next up in dystopian nightmare fuel—Google (GOOG.Q) wants to handle your money. The company is preparing to offer checking accounts to consumers starting next year. Google’s project is presently…
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Mastercard (MA.NYSE) joined PayPal (PYPL.Q) and Visa (V.NYSE) with its announced exit from Facebook’s (FB.Q) Libra support group today, leaving the once famed project listing in the wind without…
Social media has been a part of our lives for over two decades now, and it plays a big role in our social organizing. But the biggest companies have…
Facebook’s (FB.Q) Libra project endured another wild setback in France when Finance Minister, Bruno LeMaire, put the kibosh on Zuckerberg’s cryptocurrency dreams. We’ve been talking about Libra for months…
Facebook (FB.Q) CEO Mark Zuckerberg rolled over and bared his throat in front of the U.S. government yesterday, begging them to lay out regulations for online content. Facebook is…
The U.S-China trade war has catalysed a furious debate about the cultural and economic differences between the two countries. If you don’t have time to wade through a 30,000-word…
Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, proposed an overhaul of the global financial system in favour of a stablecoin like Facebook’s (FB.Q) Libra, today. He advocated…
Facebook’s (FB.Q) stock price has cratered by more than $20 in the past two months on the back of privacy scandal after scandal. We can now add to that…
Originally, Satoshi Nakamoto intended Bitcoin to act as a hedge against the greed and incompetence of central bankers, which he saw as central to most of the economic woes…