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Bitcoin Tracker: Another Day, Another All-Time High

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It’s a crazy amount of growth — up a full 81 percent since the beginning of 2017 and nearly triple (299 percent) the value at this time last year. The digital currency’s market cap stood at just under $30 billion with some 16.3 Chinese exchange volumes, once 90 percent of global activity, have decreased to about 10 percent.

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Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution

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Success is now defined by the ability to reach a critical mass of users – consumers or businesses – efficiently and effectively … where time is an important currency, as is the ability to influence and/or control that end user experience. For brands like General Mills, that’s a good news/bad news story. Distribution. But, I digress.

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The billion dollar friction problem fintech could solve

Jessica Ellerm

But as someone with an entrepreneurial mindset, living through the pain has also made me realise there is a real opportunity available for someone to come in and significantly improve the end-to-end process. These numbers are backed up by a recent report from global invoicing powerhouse Tungsten Network.

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Uber’s Rough Ride Of A Week

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We are reasonably sure that Uber will be happy to see 2017 come to an end. Nothing says, “Merry Christmas” like an entire cast of investigating international regulators. But the year’s earlier rough ride might now be viewed as a walk in the park when compared to the news of the last two weeks. billion in funding.

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Data Dive — Déjà Vu Edition: Ripple, Wells Fargo And MoviePass

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Ripple, the startup that developed the XRP cryptocurrency token and is gunning to be the world’s new global financial services network via its xRapid solution, has reportedly been hit with a lawsuit accusing it of securities fraud. The reason one might feel like they’ve read that one before … because they have.

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Foot In Mouth: 43 Quotes From Big Corporate Execs Who Laughed Off Disruption When It Hit

CB Insights

Onlookers were unsure what this device would compete with: Would it hurt mobile phone makers like Nokia or developers of handheld planners like Palm, who were also trying to enter into the phone space? Now, the iPhone X, released November 2017, is a full inch taller than its original iPhone predecessor. original iPhone. “No

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Foot In Mouth: 37 Quotes From Big Corporate Execs Who Laughed Off Disruption When It Hit

CB Insights

Onlookers were unsure what this device would compete with: Would it hurt mobile phone makers like Nokia or developers of handheld planners like Palm, who were also trying to enter into the phone space? At the time, both companies refused to admit the threat. “They’re not going to just walk in.” “They get Zambonied.”

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