Category Archives: Business

Over the weekend, cryptocurrencies suffered one of the most severe decreases in value in history when their market cap fell from a record high of $116 billion in June to $60 billion on Sunday July 17. Early this week, the market has started to rise again, but the plummet will not soon be forgotten: throughout […]

Zug is being called Switzerland’s crypto-valley and rightly so: the city in the autumn will present a digital passport for its citizens based on the blockchain software. Starting in September, the city of Zug will provide a digital identity to its citizens -the first community in the world to do so. The electronic identity will […]

Google My Business messaging, a feature that has been in testing since last year, is now rolling out to all US businesses. Mike Blumenthal, an authority on local search, has received confirmation that GMB messaging is being rolled out on a national scale. If you do not have access to it yet, you certainly will […]

Brian Massey is one of my favorite people. He’s a data scientist who has been known to show up at events in a lab coat.  I read whatever he writes as often as I can. This piece on catering to liars and helping people pretend is a clever take on psychology every marketer should master. […]

Tom Lee, a Wall Street strategist who works at Fundstrat, has predicted that the price of bitcoin will continue its exponential rise until it reaches $55,000 by 2022. He bases his prediction on the economic principles of scarcity and market instability. Many have criticized bitcoin for its turbulence-it has now reached a volatility of 75 […]

Nope, that header isn’t a typo. That’s the identification code for the virtual wallet of an anonymous cryptocurrency trader that’s made more than $200 million in just over a month. Supposedly, this unknown trader was able to raise their cryptocurrency assets from $55 million to $283 million in that short span of time; a 413 percent […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised back in March that his electric car company, which also owns solar energy provider SolarCity, could help the state of South Australia with its routine weather-caused blackout issues. At the time, Musk said Tesla was so serious about the endeavor, he wrote on Twitter that the project could be completed […]

Any place you see a database, internet, or technology growing, expect blockchain is not far behind Lantmäteriet, the land registry of Sweden, officially started to utilize Blockchain technology to register land and properties. Since early 2017, various countries including Brazil have begun to utilize Blockchain technology to facilitate the ownership of land and properties in […]

Apple has continued to expand its retail footprint in Asia after the iPhone-maker opened its first store in Taiwan this weekend. The inaugural Apple Store is located in Taipei 101, a landmark skyscraper in Taipei, and it is staffed with an initial workforce of 130 employees, Apple said. Doors in Taiwan opened at 11am local […]