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Will The Stars Align For Facebook’s Project Libra?

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The news last Friday that Facebook has plans to launch its own global crypto-based payments rails is déjà vu all over again. Déjà vu because it was 10 years ago, in May of 2009, that Facebook launched the alpha version of Facebook Credits. It shut down in 2012, 15 months after its official launch.

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The Big Jump: Pandemics And The Connected Economy’s Bigger, Faster Future

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For the last eight weeks, I have used data from our every-10-day study of more than 12,000 U.S. consumers and Main Street SMBs to explain the impact of the abrupt shift to digital that was forced on consumers and businesses when the economy shut down in mid-March. Take this graph of a two-dimensional function. Their businesses ignite.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

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Although many entrepreneurs are keenly aware that the odds are stacked against them, few founders expect to find themselves explaining their actions in bankruptcy court — yet that’s the precise situation the founders of these 11 companies found themselves in when their ventures failed. want to know THE TOP 20 REASONS STARTUPS FAIL?

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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As the Covid-19 pandemic has charted its unprecedented path around the world, it’s carried with it the question: What will Covid-19’s legacy be? From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. Table of Contents. Telehealth technology.

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Face-To-Face V.2021: What Zoom Teaches Us About The Connected Economy

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By the end of 2019, business travel hospitality globally was a $1.4 An article published in the Harvard Business Review in August of 2009 posed a question that many airline and travel industry CEOs are pondering 11 years later: Will videoconferencing kill business travel? The answer in 2009 was, probably not. And it was location-dependent.

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What The Launch Of Facebook’s Libra Means For Payments

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The endless speculation over Facebook ’s plans to build a new set of global payments rails and launch a global cryptocurrency comes to an end today with the official launch of Libra. The Calibra wallet is a product offered by a stand-alone subsidiary of Facebook by the same name. Or does it? I explain how it all works below.

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Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?

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In fact, they are at least 557 years old. The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar , which opened for business in 1460. For centuries, it did. The Grand Bazaar served as the primary commerce hub for most of Europe and Asia. It also standardized pricing and hours of operation. Until it didn’t.

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