Collaborate Disseminate
Seven Spirals writes: A working paper [PDF], published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, studies the employment effects of a guaranteed income by providing $1,000 per month to 1,000 low-income participants for three years, compared to a cont… Continue reading Study Finds UBI Results Are Not Positive
If you want to sign up for a subscription to Hulu or Disney+, don’t bother taking out your iPhone. Disney is now telling would-be customers to pay for subscriptions on Disney’s own site, instead of on Apple’s App Store — though people who’ve already s… Continue reading Disney and Apple Are Splitting Over App Store Fees
If you want to sign up for a subscription to Hulu or Disney+, don’t bother taking out your iPhone. Disney is now telling would-be customers to pay for subscriptions on Disney’s own site, instead of on Apple’s App Store — though people who’ve already s… Continue reading Disney and Apple Are Splitting Over App Store Fees
The cybersecurity firms plan on integrating security solutions once the deal closes in early 2025.
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It connects people, data, and money, Bill Gates wrote this week on his personal blog. But digital public infrastructure is also “revolutionizing the way entire nations serve their people, respond to crises, and grow their economies” — and the Gat… Continue reading Bill Gates Applauds Open Source Tools for ‘Digital Public Infrastructure’
An anonymous reader shares a report: Byju Raveendran, the founder of the embattled edtech group Byju’s, acknowledged on Thursday afternoon that he made mistakes, mistimed the market, overestimated growth potential and that his startup, once valued at $… Continue reading A Startup Once Valued at $22 Billion is Now Worth Nothing
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Robinhood launched its long-awaited desktop platform and added futures and index options trading features to its mobile app on Wednesday, as the fintech firm aims to take market share from traditional b… Continue reading Robinhood Launches Desktop Platform, Adds Features and Index Options Trading
U.S. exchanges’ four-character limit for ETF tickers is creating fierce competition in the $10 trillion industry, particularly for single-stock funds. With 456,976 possible combinations, options narrow drastically when built around existing company tic… Continue reading America Risks Running Out of Tickers for Single-Stock ETFs
PayPal completed its first business payment using its proprietary stablecoin as a way to demonstrate how digital currencies can be used to improve often-clunky commercial transactions. From a report: PayPal paid an invoice to Ernst & Young LLP on S… Continue reading PayPal Completes Its First Business Transaction Using Stablecoin
schwit1 shares a report from The Independent: Thousands of Bank of America customers reported trouble accessing their bank accounts Wednesday afternoon as the financial institution faced a widespread outage. On social media, customers said they could n… Continue reading Bank of America Is Down: Users Report Their Accounts Showing Empty Balance