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• Stellar acquires blockchain startup backed by Visa and Nasdaq

  A long-speculated acquisition has finally come to fruition. Stellar's for-profit arm Lightyear has acquired San Fransisco-based ...

  • Neer Varshney

• ShapeShift’s new identity policy is tearing the cryptocurrency community apart

  Cryptocurrency exchange desk ShapeShift recently announced that it's abandoning its "no accounts" model of trading, and the ...

  • Neer Varshney

• ShapeShift will now require you to open an account to trade cryptocurrencies on its exchange

  Users of cryptocurrency exchange desk ShapeShift will no longer be able to trade digital assets without giving away their ...

  • Neer Varshney

• Line launches its own cryptocurrency and blockchain network

  The Tokyo-based messaging titan has now launched its own cryptocurrency called 'LINK' alongside a blockchain network called ...

  • Neer Varshney

• Women founders get less funding than men but make double the revenue

  According to a recent study from BCG, female founders of start up companys receive less funding but make double the revenue ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Prime Day is bad for Amazon’s brand

  Amazon introduced Prime Day in 2015 as a way to celebrate its 20th anniversary as a one-day sale with the aim of overshadowing Black Friday. The sale was available only to Prime members and over the years has become a premier shopping day that grabs media attention and drives competitive ...

  • Michael Mothner

• This is how you can personalize marketing campaigns — without violating GDPR

  GDPR -- no other four letters are giving tech companies a bigger headache this year. So many articles have been written about it, you might wonder why you should read this one. It’s simple, really, you shouldn’t unless you are one of the 92 percent of marketers who according ...

  • Yvonne Koleczek

• EU fines ASUS, Philips, Pioneer, and Denon & Marantz €111M for breaching EU antitrust rules

  The European Commission has fined four major consumer electronics manufacturers €111 million for illegally pushing up prices ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• My team used to suck at meetings, but now people are begging us to share our secret sauce

  Think you hate meetings? My colleagues and I were so sick of them that we teamed up with Chelsea Handler to build an excuse ...

  • Tony Scherba

• You can’t achieve long term profits without knowing how your employees feel

  Does your company get a good return on all the time and money it invests in leadership development? Despite the millions ...

  • Juha Huttunen

• How cryptography enables online shopping, cloud tech, and the blockchain

  What do the Gallic Wars and online shopping have in common? The answer, believe it or not, is cryptography. Cryptography ...

  • Nigel Smart

• The car industry needs to embrace open source

  The race to develop software for the connected car market is heating up as consumers expect their vehicles to give them the ...

  • Rami Sass