The Mooch, Andrew Yang, and crypto’s tipping point

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Consumers Want Payment Options That Help Manage Spending

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The Institutions Are Coming: The Dawn Of A New Era At This Year’s MicroStrategy World

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Former Facebook And Nike DEI Manager Gets 5 Years For Embezzling $5 Million To Fund Luxury Lifestyle

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Crypto Markets Surge on U.S. Jobs Report

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Elon Musk Kills Twitter Website In Rebrand

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Elon Musk's X Finally Has a Domain That Matches Its Name

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Twitter now directs to X.com in the latest step in Musk's rebrand of the platform

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Twitter Is Finally Dead. It’s X All the Way Down

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Project Spartacus: An Act of Solidarity For Julian Assange

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Twitter is officially X.com now

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An obscure 47-year-old law designed to right the historic wrongs of redlining was the ‘original ESG framework,’ execs say. Just look at how Crown Heights and…

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Former Facebook and Nike diversity manager gets 5 years in prison for $5 million fraud

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PayPal Integrates With MoonPay And Brings Hundreds of Tokens To U.S. Users

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An obscure 47-year-old law designed to right the historic wrongs of redlining was the ‘original ESG framework,’ executives say. Just look at how Crown Heights…

fortune.com Within the finance sector, ESG might seem like a trend that’s only really caught on in the past few years—but a lesser-known banking law passed in 1977 laid the groundwork…

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/16/2024

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BlockDAG Triumphs Amidst Shiba Inu Whales and Polkadot Prices

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Wall Street Favorites: 3 Fintech Stocks With Strong Buy Ratings for May 2024

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Leading Crypto-Policy Academic in Washington to Open Disclosure Firm Bluprynt

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3 Quality Value Stocks Poised for Comeback

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Block Gains on its Cash App and Afterpay Segment Blowouts

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3 Cheap Fintech Stocks to Buy Now: May 2024

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PayPal’s stablecoin PYUSD joins BVNK’s crypto payment ecosystem

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BVNK Embeds PayPal USD Stablecoin Expanding Payment Options

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Good News (Finally!) in the Inflation Fight

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Digital Wallets, Money Management, and More

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7 Cheap Nasdaq Stocks to Buy Now: May 2024

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Post-pandemic problems: These stocks are still down more than 50 percent from their Covid highs

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2:00PM Water Cooler 5/15/2024

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Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking

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Use This Simple Strategy from Paypal's Cofounder That Helped Him Make His First Million

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How Lead Bank’s co-founder transformed a century-old community bank into an innovative fintech company

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PayPal Is Struggling: Here's What Its New CEO Finds "Unacceptable"

finance.yahoo.com PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL) is struggling, and one doesn't have to go far to find examples. For starters, for years PayPal's top line increased at a double-digit…

Buy the Dip: 3 Stocks to Snap Up on Last Week’s 10% Drop

investorplace.com These are three stocks to buy on the dip and they're all down 10% in the past week Every once in a while, I like to consider stocks to buy on the dip. For my purposes, these…

Buy PayPal Stock as the Comeback Takes Shape

investorplace.com PayPal stock may be poised to make an epic recovery PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: ) has been in a slump since 2021. The fintech firm’s latest results suggest a positive change.…

New Aerospike Release Lets Enterprises Consolidate Expensive Legacy Cache and Database Platforms

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Instant Payments Emerge as Balance Sheet Boost for Independent Restaurants

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Vitalik Buterin, Peter Thiel Invest $70 Million in Predictions Market Platform

beincrypto.com Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel crowdfunded the decentralized prediction platform Polymarket with $70 million. The investment marks an…

Fiserv and Zum Rails Scale Offering of Embedded Finance Capabilities

pymnts.com Fiserv and Zum Rails are reportedly working to provide embedded finance capabilities to businesses in the United States. In this collaboration, Fiserv is serving as the…

TV Titans Scorecard: Here Are the Major Players in Upfront Ad Sales

variety.com The turmoil in TV and advertising has been reflected in a high level of turnover among top TV ad sales executives, so media buyers will be doing business with a number of…

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network In Every App: Breez CEO’s Vision

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Coinbase Integrates Bitcoin Lightning for 100 Million Users

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Former chief of the U.S. CFTC joins Paxos board of directors

coinjournal.net Christopher Giancarlo, former CFTC chief has joined Paxos board. Giancarlo’s advocacy for blockchain innovation aligns with Paxos’ mission for regulated solutions. Paxos…

'CryptoDad' Giancarlo Joins Paxos Board

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Chase Ultimate Rewards: Everything you need to know in 2024

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Breaking Down The Bitcoin Whitepaper

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PayPal is holding its ground amid clash of digital payment titans

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‘Got that boomer!’: How cyber-criminals steal one-time passcodes for SIM swap attacks and raiding bank accounts

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The 3 Most Undervalued Software Stocks to Buy in May 2024

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A beginner's guide to Google Cloud Platform, the pay-as-you-go cloud computing services vendor with a free tier

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PayPal Stock Is a No-Brainer Buy Right Now

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Stablecoins Are Growing, And The Visa Report Proves It

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Elon Musk’s Next Billion-Dollar Venture Is in Motion Right Now

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Venture capitalist slams 'useless' Google employees for draining the economy and ‘taking money away’ from the workforce’s retirement programs. Is he right?

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