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Fintech Focus For April 28, 2021
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 6:45pm | 2055Quote To Start The Day: "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy."...
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Fintech Focus For February 23, 2021
Monday, February 22, 2021 - 8:15pm | 2037Quote To Start The Day: “Bitcoin prices have continued their meteoric rise with Tesla, BNY Mellon and Mastercard’s announcements of greater acceptance of cryptocurrencies,” JPMorgan said in a research note last week. “But fintech innovation and increased demand for digital...
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Fintech Focus For July 6, 2020
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 10:02am | 1835Daily Perspective: More debt, more liquidity, more asset reflation. - JPMorgan Fintech Movers: Software services and online education have grown as new unicorn candidates while fintech and branded e-commerce take a back seat in the 2020 crop of new unicorns. - Crunchbase Cora preps SME products....
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Tesla Remotely Removed Autopilot From A User's Car Without Telling Them: Report
Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 11:47pm | 509Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) remotely removed autopilot features from a customer's car without their knowledge because the automaker judged that the user had not paid for them, Jalopnik reported Thursday. What Happened According to Jalopnik, a customer, which it called Alec, purchased a used 2017...
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Could Tesla's Gigafactory Site Announcement Come Thursday?
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - 9:15am | 673Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) could be gearing up to make an important announcement as early as Thursday -- when it announces earnings -- about its massive lithium-ion battery Gigafactory. Reno In The Crosshairs Forbes suggested Tesla could announce the future gigafactory's site as Reno, pointing...
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Do Automakers Need to be More Secretive?
Friday, February 3, 2012 - 8:49am | 1634Does it pay to be the most forthcoming industry in the world? In most major industries, trade shows are still a necessary evil. Sure, it might cost Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) two million dollars to build a flashy booth. But without it, what will attract the 50,000+ attendees of E3 (the...
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Will the 2014 Corvette Redesign Help or Hurt GM's Bottom Line?
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 10:58am | 1120“These aren't photos, but this is absolutely the next-generation Chevy Corvette in ZR1 trim. GM so doesn't want you to see these.” That's the word from Jalopnik, which has three exclusive renderings of the 2014 model. While there have been numerous reports of spy shots showing a real Corvette (...
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When the Shift Hits the Fan, What Will You Do?
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 2:43pm | 152It's amazing what one wrinkled newspaper can accomplish. In an unlikely headline gaffe that would make Jay Leno proud, it seems that the UAW is finally getting tough with Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F). Take a close look at the image, which appeared on apple.copydesk.org (and made its way to...
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Fire Scare Forces United Airlines Evacuation
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 2:10pm | 308Flight 586 was evacuated today after a fire scare at Dulles airport. Jodi Gersh, the Director of Social Media at Gannett (NYSE: GCI), was on the plane when it happened. “My plane just had an emergency evacuation- down the slides,” she wrote on Twitter. “I am shaking. I don't yet know why. People...
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Four Ways Google's Self-Driving Cars Will Change the World – Three Ways They Will Ruin Everything
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 11:58am | 1124The evolution, revolution, and inevitable destruction of transportation. Last week, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) received some bad press after one of its self-driving vehicles got into an accident. The news sounded awful; in addition to raising concerns about self-driving vehicles, it made it sound as...
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Robot Drivers Unite! Google Car Crashes, Human to Blame
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 4:13pm | 259Pesky human drivers are getting in the way of Steven Spielberg's Minority Report dream. Or maybe, just maybe, they will help it become a reality. Business Insider reports that Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) self-driving cars have gotten into their first accident and a human is to blame. "Safety is our...