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Crypto Fails To Impress For Corporate Tax Payments

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to allow businesses to pay their corporate taxes in bitcoin. The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance released a study last year, finding a sharp increase in the onboarding of new cryptocurrency users, rising from 18 million at the end of 2017 to 35 million at the end of 2018, Invest in Blockchain reports said.

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The Connected Economy: It’s About Time

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One of the most important innovations in history is the pendulum clock, which was invented in 1636 by Christiaan Huygens , a Dutch scientist and founder of the field of mathematical physics. Enabling people to use their scarce time more efficiently has been at the core of many disruptive innovations throughout history.

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AutoGPT Will Change Your Bank

South State Correspondent

In less than 30 seconds, AutoGPT retrieved a list of the highest-rated restaurants, checked availability, and made the requested reservations at the auto-chosen Capital Grille (below). The application changed the subject line again to “Take Advantage of Tax-Free Savings: Increase Your Health Savings Account Contribution.”

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Innovation in the Asset Management industry

Tefkin

On the “Beta” end of the scale, ETFs are steadily becoming one of the most successful innovation in recent decades. Companies such as Betterment (disclosure, Anthemis is an investor & I am a customer) make investing in a diversified portfolio of ETFs easy and provide additional services such as automated rebalancing and tax optimisation.

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The billion dollar friction problem fintech could solve

Jessica Ellerm

Whether that be simple automation hacks or better visibility between suppliers and buyers, a great procure-to-pay journey is just waiting for someone to innovate and own. Aside from the pain points, in Australia alone there are serious economic reasons why we desperately need innovation in this space. Isolate then innovate.

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Can Rio de Janeiro Withstand The Olympic Pressure?

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In an effort to spur job growth, the Brazilian government offered tax and legal incentives for technology companies within Rio. The study, from security ratings company BitSight, found that Brazil had disappointing results on indicators such as email security, filesharing policies and the rate of machines compromised.

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Bitcoin Blushing With Secret Admirers

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According to Tyler, the two brothers began buying and studying the currency and were ultimately “sucked in” to the digital currency world, noting that “you don’t predict when you’re going to fall in love.”. But the town is also demonstrating its versatility as the end of banking secrecy, and new tax reforms are threatening its economy.

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