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Great Wall of Numbers: “Eight Things Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts probably won’t tell You” 2018

November 27, 2017

Great Wall of Numbers: “Eight Things Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts probably won’t tell You” 2018

#Bitcoin #Economics #Links

Simultaneously, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars raised by VCs and over a couple billion dollars raised through ICOs in the past ...

Fortune: “Trump’s Tax Reform could benefit Apple, other Multinationals” 2018

November 16, 2017

Fortune: “Trump’s Tax Reform could benefit Apple, other Multinationals” 2018

#Apple #Economics #Links

For FY 2016, Apple booked total pre-tax earnings of $61.4 billion. On its income statement, Apple showed a “provision for taxes” of $15.685 ...

CNBC Business: “Morgan Stanley predicts space industry will triple in size” 2018

November 13, 2017

CNBC Business: “Morgan Stanley predicts space industry will triple in size” 2018

#Economics #Links #Space

Morgan Stanley estimates the space industry, worth about $350 billion today, will grow into an economy worth more than $1.1 trillion by 2040...

AVC: “Store of Value vs Payment System” 2018

September 11, 2017

AVC: “Store of Value vs Payment System” 2018

#Bitcoin #Economics #Links

I share these three transactions with all of you to make a point. And that point is that you can’t keep spending something that goes up as m...

TechCrunch: “Grab gets $2B from Didi and SoftBank to fuel bid to defeat Uber in Southeast Asia” 2018

August 01, 2017

TechCrunch: “Grab gets $2B from Didi and SoftBank to fuel bid to defeat Uber in Southeast Asia” 2018

#Car #Economics #Links #Uber

Essentially, both Didi and SoftBank are doubling down on the belief that Grab has what it takes to defeat Uber in Southeast Asia, the same w...

Daring Fireball: “Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year’s New iPhones” 2018

Daring Fireball: “Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year’s New iPhones” 2018

#Apple #Economics #iPhone #Links

It sounds to me like the OLED iPhone is a phone which Apple can’t make 40 million of per quarter, at least not today. And if that’s true, th...

Politico Magazine: “The Trade Deal we just Threw Overboard” 2018

Politico Magazine: “The Trade Deal we just Threw Overboard” 2018

#Economics #Links #USA

Similarly, in the original NAFTA talks, Canada had refused to even consider opening up its heavily protected dairy, poultry and egg markets ...

Recode: “Facebook may finally have to compromise its user experience in order to keep growing” 2018

Recode: “Facebook may finally have to compromise its user experience in order to keep growing” 2018

#Economics #Facebook #Links

Unlike intent-driven interfaces like YouTube, the News Feed is a passive experience, where it is easier to scroll than to engage. A News Fee...

Quartz: “Bill Gates: the robot that takes your job should pay taxes” 2018

February 27, 2017

Quartz: “Bill Gates: the robot that takes your job should pay taxes” 2018

#AI #Economics #Links

In a recent interview with Quartz, Gates said that a robot tax could finance jobs taking care of elderly people or working with kids in sch...

The New York Times: “A Tax Overhaul would be Great in Theory. Here’s why it’s so hard in Practice” 2018

February 16, 2017

The New York Times: “A Tax Overhaul would be Great in Theory. Here’s why it’s so hard in Practice” 2018

#Economics #Links #USA

A short list of the plan’s potential benefits looks awesome: It would give companies more incentive to keep jobs in the United States, less...

AVC: “The Future of Labor” 2018

February 09, 2017

AVC: “The Future of Labor” 2018

#Economics #Links #Social

I don’t think all the work opportunities will be gone in fifty years. But I do think the nature of work is changing quite dramatically in f...

The New York Times: “How China built ‘iPhone City’ with Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner” 2018

January 23, 2017

The New York Times: “How China built ‘iPhone City’ with Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner” 2018

#Apple #China #Economics #iPhone #Links

It all centers on Zhengzhou, a city of six million people in an impoverished region of China. Running at full tilt, the factory here, owned...

The Wall Street Journal: “Exclusive Peek at SpaceX Data shows Loss in 2015” 2018

January 18, 2017

The Wall Street Journal: “Exclusive Peek at SpaceX Data shows Loss in 2015” 2018

#Economics #Links #Space

One hundred and thirty nine seconds is all it took for an unmanned rocket to explode after blastoff and turn Elon Musk’s booming Space Expl...

Reuters: “Apple appeal against EU tax demand would break new ground” 2018

September 13, 2016

Reuters: “Apple appeal against EU tax demand would break new ground” 2018

#Apple #Economics #Links

Some lawyers say that Apple’s arrangement was legal in Ireland and theoretically available to any company and so the California-based compa...

Reuters: “Cyber threat grows for bitcoin exchanges” 2018

September 09, 2016

Reuters: “Cyber threat grows for bitcoin exchanges” 2018

#Bitcoin #Economics #Links

I am skeptical there’s going to be any technological silver bullet that’s going to solve security breach problems. No technology, crypto-cu...

The Intercept: “CEO Tim Cook Decides Apple Doesn’t Have to Pay Corporate Tax Rate because it’s ‘Unfair’” 2018

August 29, 2016

The Intercept: “CEO Tim Cook Decides Apple Doesn’t Have to Pay Corporate Tax Rate because it’s ‘Unfair’” 2018

#Apple #Economics #Links

Here’s what Apple CEO Tim Cook had to say about it in a long interview published this weekend in the Washington Post : We’ve said at 40 ...

Bloomberg: “Tesla: Nothing Really Matters, Anyone Can See” 2018

August 09, 2016

Bloomberg: “Tesla: Nothing Really Matters, Anyone Can See” 2018

#Car #Economics #Links

Tesla stock is utterly indifferent to whether the company’s losses are bigger or smaller than analysts predict. Wednesday’s miss, at 77 per...

Fusion: “With a single vote, England just screwed us all” 2018

Fusion: “With a single vote, England just screwed us all” 2018

#Economics #Links #Politics #World

I’m sitting here looking at my burgundy-red British passport, with EUROPEAN UNION emblazoned in gold letters across the top. I’ve fastened ...

re/code: “Why is Facebook doing so well?” 2018

re/code: “Why is Facebook doing so well?” 2018

#Economics #Facebook #Links

Facebook reported yet another quarter of strong user growth, in marked contrast to Twitter, which has been eking out only very modest growt...

Above the Crowd: “Why the Unicorn Financing Market just became Dangerous… for all involved” 2018

Above the Crowd: “Why the Unicorn Financing Market just became Dangerous… for all involved” 2018

#Apps #Economics #Links

Mo Money Mo Problems Perhaps the biggest lapse in judgment for all of those involved is the assumption that if we can just raise “one more...