2019-6-25 12:00 |
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In a report published by the Bank for International Settlements, the "bank for central banks" asked that regulators keep banks in mind when they update and create new financial rules as Facebook and other tech companies enter the payments and custody business.
2019-6-24 19:01 | |
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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), an institution owned by the world’s central banks, has issued a stark warning about the likes of Facebook, Alibaba, and Google disrupting the established financial system.
2019-6-24 16:18 | |
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The Bank for International Settlements has expressed concerns over the expected disruption as big tech firms like Facebook enter the financial space.
2019-6-25 12:40 | |
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The Bank of International Settlements warns that financial services offered by big techs such as Facebook, Google and Amazon could create new risks for the banking sector
2019-6-25 10:05 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook has too much power to engage with a cryptocurrency, a United States senator has warned, days after the social media giant launched Libra. Sherrod Brown, a Democratic senator from Ohio, told Bloomberg TV that the public has increasing concerns around the social network.
2019-6-22 16:38 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook confirmed that its new cryptocurrency Libra isn’t designed to kill or compete with bitcoin. David Marcus, the man leading Facebook’s crypto efforts, said Libra and bitcoin can co-exist with differing use cases and that’s he a big fan of BTC.
2019-6-21 14:39 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook’s foray into cryptocurrencies with Libra has met with a ton of mixed reactions. While some are going gaga over the social media giant’s latest effort that’s supposed to enable cross-border payments at the tap of a button, the traditionalists are taking a dim view.
2019-6-21 10:21 | |
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Primed as the “next big thing” in the intersection of the payments and technology industry, Facebook’s foray into the cryptospace took the market by storm, following its unveiling on June 18.
2019-6-19 19:30 | |
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Edan Yago is the founder of CementDAO, an effort to bring together stablecoins into a unified ecosystem. The views expressed here are his own. With the announcement of Libra, cryptocurrency has entered the big leagues.
2019-6-19 23:40 | |
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Coinspeaker Zilliqa Big Debut Is Tomorrow: Is It Linked to Facebook?There are 3 vertical markets Zilliqa wants to tackle: gaming, entertainment and financial services. While the company aims to become a competitor to the likes of Visa or Mastercard, there’re rumors over its links to Facebook.
2019-6-17 12:27 | |
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Coinspeaker Zilliqa Big Debut Is Tomorrow: Denying Being Linked to FacebookThere are 3 vertical markets Zilliqa wants to tackle: gaming, entertainment and financial services. While the company aims to become a competitor to the likes of Visa or Mastercard, there’re rumors over its links to Facebook.
2019-6-17 12:27 | |
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25-year-old oxygen-drain, Justin Bieber, challenged 56-year-old Scientologist, Tom Cruise, to a cage fight, calling him chicken if he doesn’t accept. But would we be better off putting our money on that… or Bitcoin? [hint: the answer’s Bitcoin] Bitcoin Price Hits 13-Month High The new normal is that there is no normal… so Bitcoin is back to normal.
2019-6-16 14:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: When it comes to what’s gone wrong with Big Tech, the only surprise you would expect is if Facebook was missing from the list. From data privacy violations to aiding genocide to enhancing the spread of fake news, the social media giant has become a global ignominy.
2019-6-16 18:37 | |
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Social media giant Facebook’s ambitious cryptocurrency project with some big names as partners has garnered significant attention. Facebook signed a dozen companies including big shots like Uber, PayPal, and Visa for the much-hyped stablecoin.
2019-6-15 13:03 | |
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Facebook has begun assembling a who’s who of big tech companies to back its soon to be unveiled cryptocurrency, GlobalCoin. The likes of Mastercard, Visa, Uber, and PayPal are all backing the social media giant’s upcoming digital coin due to be unveiled later this month, and officially rolled out next year, reports The Wall St Journal.
2019-6-14 11:49 | |
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Coinspeaker MasterCard, Visa, Uber and Other Big Companies Backing Facebook’s CryptocurrencyVisa, Mastercard and PayPal are set to be backers of Facebook's cryptocurrency along with a number of other companies, including Uber.
2019-6-14 11:44 | |
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Coinspeaker MasterCard, Visa, Uber and Other Big Companies Backing Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Global CoinVisa, Mastercard and PayPal are set to be backers of Facebook's cryptocurrency along with a number of other companies, including Uber.
2019-6-14 11:44 | |
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Big companies like Visa and PayPal are reportedly willing to pay millions for the privilege of running a node on the Facebook cryptocurrency network. Facebook’s foray into crypto has been met with mixed reaction.
2019-6-14 08:30 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook has managed to lure some big names to support its cryptocurrency endeavor. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, payment giants Visa and Mastercard in addition to PayPal and Uber have all jumped onto Mark Zuckerberg’s crypto bandwagon.
2019-6-14 06:15 | |
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A GDPR case against Facebook, launched by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems, has been deemed legal under EU law after the Austrian Supreme Court’s ruling, ComputerWeekly reports. Why is this a big deal? Because Facebook has been trying to block this case for five years, and winning a ruling against one of the richest companies in the world is huge news.
2019-6-12 18:06 | |
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The internet’s often a big bad place, but every once in a while it’ll make you chuckle. In a hilarious prank, two creators have uploaded a deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg on Instagram talking about stolen data.
2019-6-12 11:36 | |
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John de Mol, a Dutch media tycoon and creator of the “Big Brother” reality TV show, has slapped Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook with a lawsuit on June 5, 2019, claiming that the social media network allowed his name and image to be used in advertisements promoting a bitcoin (BTC) scam scheme, according to a Reuters reportRead MoreRead More.
2019-6-6 13:00 | |
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The inventor of the reality television programme “Big Brother”, John de Mol, has sued Facebook over its negligence in policing the advertisements it allows on its platform. The Dutch billionaire has been the face of a fake advertising campaign for a Bitcoin investment platform.
2019-6-6 02:00 | |
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Facebook is being sued by Dutch media tycoon, John de Mol, for posting fraudulent Bitcoin ads that listed him as an investor. Billionaire Claims Facebook Turns a Blind Eye to Scams On Wednesday, Reuters reported that John de Mol, the billionaire businessman behind the popular reality TV show ‘ Big Brother’ was suing Facebook for publishing false advertisements which used his name to carry out Bitcoin-related investment fraud.
2019-6-6 00:00 | |
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By CCN: John de Mol, who is behind the reality television hit show “Big Brother,” blames Facebook for scammers using his likeness on fraudulent bitcoin-fueled ads that stole nearly $2 million from investors.
2019-6-6 22:30 | |
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Dutch billionaire and businessman John de Mol, known for creating the "Big Brother" reality television show, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the social media giant allowed fake ads on its platform that used de Mol's face and name to carry out bitcoin-related fraud.
2019-6-6 19:21 | |
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The creator of the Big Brother reality television format is suing Facebook for allowing advertisements to fraudulently feature his name and image, Reuters reports. Dutch billionaire John de Mol, one of the brains behind entertainment studio Endemol, filed his suit against Facebook in an Amsterdam court earlier today.
2019-6-5 18:34 | |
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The 10-Year Challenge was the year’s first big internet fad. You remember? When people posted pictures of themselves from 2009 and 2019 in order to… well, actually, that was it. Depending on who you talk to, it was either a benign trend for people to show off how resilient their faces were against the tides of time, or a conspiracy by Facebook to improve its facial recognition tech.
2019-6-5 16:51 | |
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By CCN: How bad will things get for the FANG stocks amidst the DOJ antitrust probe? Bad. Worse than it already has been. I expect 30% downside for Facebook, Amazon, and Google stocks, and they will bring down Netflix and Apple.
2019-6-4 21:40 | |
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Криптовалюта, работу над которой ведет крупнейшая в мире социальная сеть Facebook, может столкнуться с нехваткой инвесторов, так как аудитория платформы становится все более возрастной. Такое предположение сделали исследователи Diar.
2019-5-29 11:26 | |
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Facebook and other giants’ crypto plans will serve to give bitcoin stamp of approval, says BitPay’s Sonny Singh
2019-5-29 11:25 | |
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Mainstream media was abuzz last week with the news that Facebook has plans to launch its own digital token, ‘GlobalCoin’. This highlights the ignorance that big news outlets have, as Facebook really is ill-suited to have anything close to what we consider cryptocurrency.
2019-5-29 07:00 | |
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You can tell a lot about the direction of a company by looking at its tech stack. A great example of this comes from Facebook, which today announced the creation of a brand new open-source DHCP server, as it had outgrown the existing products.
2019-5-28 17:21 | |
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SEC guidance has created a more attractive environment for regulated tech firms like Facebook to offer proprietary cryptoassets integrated into their existing products that can be legally traded on existing crypto-exchanges as non-securities.
2019-5-23 10:44 | |
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Step by step, Facebook continues to make progress it what seems to like a cryptocurrency payment system designed for WhatsApp, as the latest rumors suggest. The big US tech giant looks to dig deeper into the potential of the blockchain technology, after registering a new company in Geneva, Switzerland.
2019-5-22 21:56 | |
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Coinspeaker Facebook Chooses Crypto-Friendly Switzeland for Its New FinTech Arm Libra NetworksFacebook has quietly registered its fintech company dubbed Libra Networks in Switzerland.
2019-5-20 13:01 | |
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Facebook, one of the big four tech companies, announced on May 8 via a blog post that it is relaxing its policy on ads related to cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and financial products and services.
2019-5-10 11:19 | |
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By CCN: Facebook’s much-hyped cryptocurrency project, dubbed Project Libra, may launch in India within a matter of months, according to a Bloomberg report. The secretive blockchain project, led by a team of PayPal alumni, is expected to launch a stablecoin for sending peer-to-peer payments to friends and family as well as integrating with major e-commerce players.
2019-5-9 12:49 | |
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Facebook’s crypto project is reportedly encouraging major financial institutions to invest in crypto
2019-5-8 16:38 | |
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Google, the search giant which has made its business to make money off our digital habits, is getting serious about privacy. The company, at its annual Google I/O developers conference yesterday, announced a number of fancy software updates, in addition to unveiling new hardware like Nest Hub Max and cheaper versions of its Pixel smartphone.
2019-5-8 15:46 | |
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What do Facebook, Visa, Shell, IBM, and EY have in common (other than being stupid rich)? They’re all hiring blockchain talent. Indeed, blockchain jobs are popping up all over the place these days.
2019-5-2 18:11 | |
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Advertisements follow you everywhere. Google and Facebook have become the de facto diarchs, mining your online attention to track every single move to serve their needs. While it’s becoming increasingly impossible to quench the big tech’s thirst for user data, collect they must in order to sell ads, and for them to thrive and grow.
2019-5-2 15:52 | |
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By many measures, the past few months have been absolutely monumental for the crypto. Facebook, Samsung, HTC, among other technology giants have doubled-down on blockchain. Fidelity and E*Trade are both rumored to soon be offering spot Bitcoin (BTC) trading, as Nasdaq and the Intercontinental Exchange (through Bakkt) look to launch cryptocurrency futures.
2019-5-1 15:00 | |
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GDPR is complicated business; even people like me who try to keep up with all its developments struggle to understand this mammoth set of European regulations and its effects. I believe one of the main reasons for that is we’ve yet to see a proper GDPR case being brought against big tech companies like Facebook and Google — the companies GDPR should protect us from.
2019-4-30 14:06 | |
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In a further sign of endorsement for the crypto industry, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Limited has announced the testing of a crypto payment system. Details released show the development of a smart wallet that allows users to earn while on the road.
2019-4-29 19:58 | |
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It seems like the world is getting more social all the time: social media boasts nearly 3. 2 billion users worldwide, representing a 13 percent increase year-over-year, with Facebook, YouTube, and WhatsApp leading the charge in terms of user bases.
2019-4-29 05:30 | |
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By CCN: Nike is launching a blockchain product. Telegram is launching a blockchain. Samsung is reportedly planning to launch its own token platform; building with Ethereum for the S10 wasn’t enough.
2019-4-26 04:05 | |
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Cryptocurrencies are faring very well this year. However, they are still lacking something very important: something to push their prices to the stars. The so awaited Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) is simply not here and even Facebook Coin seems to be away in the future, so what can this big news that will awake the […]
2019-4-19 01:39 | |
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The political spectrum is usually divided into four main categories: libertarian left, authoritarian left, libertarian right and authoritarian right. Those on the left prefer a more controlled economy, while those on the right have a preference for free markets.
2019-4-16 22:26 | |
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The defi community rallied behind PoolTogether by raising $1.4 million through a nonfungible token sale last year to support the platform's legal defense.
PoolTogether, a DeFi savings program, raised over $830,000 in five days through an NFT sale to pay its legal defense against a man who put $10 into the protocol and then went on to sue the company behind it for assisting an “unauthorized lottery scam.
The DeFi savings app PoolTogether has raised over $830,000 in five days through an NFT sale to crowdfund its legal defense against a man who deposited $10 into the protocol...
The distribution was designed to reward small depositors on PoolTogether who stayed in a long time.
PoolTogether is best known for its no-loss prize pools that utilize efficient capital coordination and DeFi primitives to generate winnings […] The post PoolTogether Introduces Prize Pool Builder appeared first on DeFi Rate.
PoolTogether v3 will enable more ERC-20 tokens, more yield sources and more prize distribution schemes for the DeFi savings game.
Chainlink may be solving part of the problem that first drove Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s interest in decentralized applications.