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El Salvador Weekly: Bitcoin Experiment Increasingly Unpopular with Bond Market, US Congress and Salvadorans
El Salvador Weekly: Bitcoin Experiment Increasingly Unpopular with Bond Market, US Congress and Salvadorans
May 06, 2022  |  Bitcoin

The bitcoin-boosting president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has bet the house on the first cryptocurrency. First by making it legal tender and then staking...

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Closing eCommerce’s Last-Mile Gap
Closing eCommerce’s Last-Mile Gap
February 21, 2020  |  Retail

The fact that the last mile is the hardest mile has become something of a truism in modern eCommerce, simply because that is so often...

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Bond Lands $15M To Enable Quick Delivery For eComm Firms
Bond Lands $15M To Enable Quick Delivery For eComm Firms
January 29, 2020  |  Delivery

New York startup Bond, formed in 2019, has raised $15 million in a funding round from contributors Lightspeed Venture Partners, MizMaa Ventures and TLV Partners,...

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World Bank Lands $33M For Australian Blockchain Bond
World Bank Lands $33M For Australian Blockchain Bond
August 23, 2019  |  Investments

The World Bank announced it has raised $33 million from investors for its blockchain-based “Kangaroo” bond, Bond-i. The bond, which is due August 2020, is...

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Deutsche Burdened By High Interest Rate Payments
Deutsche Burdened By High Interest Rate Payments
February 11, 2019  |  Banking

Deutsche Bank is now paying the highest financing rates on the euro debt market as compared to other major financial institutions, which could lead to...

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Alibaba’s Amazon Killer?
Alibaba’s Amazon Killer?
November 20, 2014  |  Apple Pay

As if Amazon and eBay needed more reasons to worry about Alibaba—which might also be getting frighteningly tight with Apple—founder Jack Ma said Thursday (Nov....

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