• Facebook's chief seems to be losing, for once. (Anthony Quintano via Wikimedia Commons)
    Facebook's chief seems to be losing, for once. (Anthony Quintano via Wikimedia Commons)
    Libra

    Despite being called ‘global threat’, Libra Association launches

    A signing ceremony by the cryptocurrency’s members was overshadowed by dropouts and a report calling stablecoins a threat to the global economy

    October 15, 2019 /

    Facebook’s wounded Libra Association formally voted itself into existence on October 14, electing a board and choosing officers. The ceremony was overshadowed by the loss of seven original members including Mastercard and Visa.

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  • Nasdaq
    The Nasdaq is an electronic marketplace. When reporters go on TV and say, "We're live at the NASDAQ!" they are really at a studio set up in Times Square. This is the studio. It's much better than looking at just a bunch of wires (photo by Luis Villa del Campo, via Wikimedia Commons).
    Cryptocurrencies

    CoinMarketCap launches cryptocurrency indices on NASDAQ, Bloomberg

    Well-regarded indices key to creating mutual funds, ETFs tracking asset class

    March 20, 2019 /

    Data provider CoinMarketCap is launching a pair of cryptocurrency benchmark indices on NASDAQ, Bloomberg, and several other market information services, it announced Wednesday in a blog post.

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