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US Supreme Court Allows Anti-Trust Case Against Apple to Go Ahead by Slight Majority
15.5.2019
Over the last decade, some tech companies have become so large that it is inevitable that at some point or the other, it would end up misusing its dominant position in the market. Google paid the price for its malpractices after it was hauled up by the anti-trust authorities in Europe and...
Asian Stocks Show Upward Trend as Trade War Worries Ease
15.5.2019
The US President Donald Trump seems to have softened his stand and is looking for a compromise from China that resulted in the Asian stocks rising from a 14 week low. The Asian stocks also rode high on the optimism that the Beijing government will inject more stimulus to the Chinese economy as they...
Bank of America CTO Catherine Bessant: We Haven’t Found a Blockchain Use Case in Finance
15.5.2019
Bank of America has yet to find blockchain use cases for the financial services sector, according to the bank’s CTO, Catherine Bessant
Donald Trump All Set to Sign Order That Will Ban Huawei from the United States
15.5.2019
One of the biggest fallouts from the tensions between the United States and China has been the former’s accusation against the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, that eventually led to its ban in America. The US authorities accused that the telecommunication equipment that is supplied...
Jet Airways Sinks Further Into the Abyss as Top Executives Start Quitting
15.5.2019
Even until last year, India’s Jet Airways was the country’s biggest privately owned airline with the biggest market share, and there was no doubt that the airline was going to continue on its growth path as the airline industry expanded in the country. However, the company’s massive debt burden...
Whole Foods, Starbucks and Nordstrom, Accept Bitcoin As Payments But Don’t Acknowledge
15.5.2019
Ever since cryptocurrencies were first created, the ultimate aim of the creators was to ensure that it became an alternative and seamless mode of payments, but that always seemed to be a pipe dream as it was not accepted as legal tender anywhere. However, the atmosphere surrounding had started...
Tech Giants Intel and Microsoft Document Big Problems With Blockchain Technology
15.5.2019
Blockchain technology has been in existence for more than a decade now, and although most people only associate it with a range of cryptocurrencies, it is important to note that the technology in itself has a far wider range of uses. According to many experts, Blockchain technology has...
CME’s Bitcoin Futures Break Records With $1 Billion in Notional Volume
15.5.2019
The world’s largest options and futures exchange, Chicago Mercantile Exchange & Chicago Board of Trade (CME Group) and its bitcoin futures contracts saw an all-time high on May 13. According to CME’s records, the exchange recorded 33,700 contracts on Monday which represented...
Digital Asset Finance Firm BitGo Announces Off-Chain Clearance and Settlement Service
14.5.2019
An off-chain clearing and settlement service has been launched by digital asset finance firm BitGo
The US Starts Legal Process To Impose Taxes On New Chinese Imports
14.5.2019
The US-China trade war which seemed to be end soon after both countries said that the talks were going in the right direction took a turn for the worse on Sunday as US President Trump in a tweet said that the talks were going ‘too slowly’ and that he would impose tariffs on $250 billion …
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How The Trade War With Washington Can Affect Europe?
14.5.2019
Europe is bracing for the May 18 deadline of President Trump’s imposition of tariffs on European goods especially the auto sector. Trump is likely to decide the fate of those tariffs on Saturday and that could impact the global growth and Europe’s auto sector the most. On the basis of revenues,...
NZ Exporters Affected By Brexit, Trade War: NZ Finance Minister
14.5.2019
The New Zealand finance minister believes that the global economic environment is unfavorable for the NZ exporters to make profits due to the ongoing trade war between the US and China and also the effects of Brexit. The impact of Brexit on New Zealand New Zealand has had friendly relations with...
Global Markets Recover As Investors Become Optimistic Of A Deal
14.5.2019
There has been a slight turnaround in the global stock market after a fall on Monday due to the escalating trade war between the US and China. The Chinese retaliated with a tax imposition of $60 billion worth of American goods. The US and the European futures rose, and the Asian stocks fell by...
E-Commerce Giant eBay All Set to Start Accepting Payments in Cryptocurrencies
14.5.2019
When cryptocurrencies first came into existence, no one quite took it with much seriousness and a future in which payments could be made with those currencies was nothing short of a pipe dream. However, over the past few years, that attitude is changing at a breakneck pace as more and more people...
Major Brazilian Bank Brodesco Joins R3 Corda-Powered Global Trade Finance Network
14.5.2019
Prominent Brazlian bank Banco Bradesco has become the latest institution to join R3’s Marco Polo international blockchain network for trade finance
Smartphone Giant Samsung Confirms That It Will Make More Blockchain Compatible Phones
14.5.2019
There was a time when Samsung used to be the biggest smartphone brand in the world, with a stranglehold over some of the most important smartphone markets. However, that is no longer the case, and the company’s smartphone sales have tanked dramatically over the past few years. For instance, at...
Walmart Takes on Amazon; Executes One Day Free Shipping in Some Areas in US
14.5.2019
Two mega-corporations who have been involved in a tremendous feud for the better part of two decades are Amazon and Walmart. When Amazon was established, Walmart was already a behemoth yet, slowly but surely the former posed a threat that soon became an alarming one for the latter and ever since...
Automotive Supplying Giant Bosch Decides to Go For Platinum Light Fuel Cells
13.5.2019
As everyone knows, traditional vehicles which use fuel cells propelled by metals are often held responsible for the pollution that is spread in the environment and over the years, there have been numerous calls for cells to have a lower metal content. However, nothing much came to pass over...
Amazon Unveils Machines That Could Replace Packaging Employees
13.5.2019
For the last few years, Amazon has often threatened to usher in a technology that could save the company millions by reducing the number of jobs that involve repetitive work, and it seems that the company has finally found a solution. In an exclusive report by Reuters, it has emerged that...
Blockchain the Next Frontier for Indian Company Arvind Fashions As it Tries Personalization
13.5.2019
Meta- Indian clothing retail chain giant signs deal with Blockchain firm Nucleus Vision for a pilot project aimed at personalizing the customer’s experience at its stores. For as long as anyone can remember, Blockchain technology has been primarily associated with cryptocurrencies, but as many tech...