The former Bank of France (BoF) governor Christian Noyer said that a centralized, global eCurrency is still at least a decade away. Although physical money is being used less and electronic currency is being touted by private entities, there is “clear hesitation” from the top...
The Bank of Russia has voiced its support for a ban on cryptocurrency payments, saying that “private cryptocurrencies cannot be equated with fiat money and cannot be legal tender.” “If it is decided to ban cryptocurrencies as a means of payment at the legislative level, we...
Facebook appears to be moving ahead with the launch of a digital currency, recently kicking off talks with the U.S. derivatives regulator. The Financial Times, citing Christopher Giancarlo, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, reported Ginacarlo said the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is in...
News aggregation platform Flipboard has revealed that it suffered a data breach that went on for nine months. “We recently identified unauthorized access to some of our databases containing certain Flipboard users’ account information, including account credentials. In response to this discovery, we immediately launched...
August 25, 2023
One of the more compelling stories to come out of the pandemic was the idea of shoppable content. The hyper-convenient purchase moment and context of shoppable content, along with its emergent cousins like social shopping and live selling, seemed poised to take off. Click-through to purchase capabilities were being positioned as the next change-the-game innovation […]
February 05, 2020
The former Bank of France (BoF) governor Christian Noyer said that a centralized, global eCurrency is still at least a decade away. Although physical money is being used less and electronic currency is being touted by private entities, there is “clear hesitation” from the top worldwide central banks to launch their own, Noyer told the […]
December 01, 2019
The Bank of Russia has voiced its support for a ban on cryptocurrency payments, saying that “private cryptocurrencies cannot be equated with fiat money and cannot be legal tender.” “If it...
June 03, 2019
Facebook appears to be moving ahead with the launch of a digital currency, recently kicking off talks with the U.S. derivatives regulator. The Financial Times, citing Christopher Giancarlo, head of...
May 30, 2019
News aggregation platform Flipboard has revealed that it suffered a data breach that went on for nine months. “We recently identified unauthorized access to some of our databases containing certain...
