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US bitcoin futures start trading on CBOE, a week ahead of futures rollout at rival CME Group; bitcoin's price climbed ~8% in first seven minutes of trading — Exchange provider's website experienced outages from heavy traffic — The first bitcoin futures started trading Sunday …
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Tweets: @cboe, @wsj, @zerohedge, and @satoshilite
| Adrianne Jeffries / The Outline: |
The current Bitcoin economy has mainly replicated core aspects of a centralized finance industry instead of giving rise to a true p2p financial system — The cryptocurrency was supposed to replace the finance industry. Instead, it has replicated it.
Tweets: @mathewi, @adam_chal, @stewglynn, @tcarmody, @therevmountain, @stiancarlsen, @chulu, and @vadakkus
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Experts estimate that about 1,000 users, known as “whales”, control 40% of bitcoins, raising concerns whales may collude to manipulate cryptocurrency markets — A few massive investors can rock it with a shrug. — On Nov. 12, someone moved almost 25,000 bitcoins …
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Tweets: @smsfcoach, @michaelkitces, @ajaya_buddy, and @ecoinomia
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Profile of non-profit Fight for the Future, which helped to kill SOPA, pass net neutrality rules, and now leads a fight against FCC's plan to repeal those rules — WORCESTER, Mass. — Hundreds of protests were staged across the country on Thursday in the latest uproar over a repeal of rules ensuring an open internet.
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Wired, Firstpost, Associated Press, and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @nytimes, and @zackwhittaker
| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
A look at how self-driving vehicles, including cars and trucks, may positively affect the economy by creating new jobs and opportunities — Millions of people drive for a living; autonomous technology could make their work obsolete — Millions of people drive for a living; autonomous technology could make their work obsolete
Tweets: @benioff
| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google brings back play/pause touch controls to Home Mini via long press on sides, after top touch input was disabled due to bug that caused unwanted recording — The Google Home Mini is a super-affordable way to get Google Assistant in your life, but Google was forced to hobble the device shortly …
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| Clare O'Connor / Forbes: |
New York-based luxury fashion e-tailer Moda Operandi raises $165M for international expansion, bringing the total raised to $300M+ — Luxury online fashion retailer Moda Operandi has raised $165 million in growth capital as it increases its footprint in sought-after Middle Eastern …
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New York Times, Fashion News India …, New York Business Journal, Fashionista, and NewsCenter.io. Tweets: @nytfashion
| Madhav Chanchani / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Alibaba to buy 30% of India's online grocer BigBasket for $300M, with $80M of the investment used to buy shares from existing shareholders — BENGALURU: Alibaba is poised to buy over a third of online grocer BigBasket, according to three people directly aware of the impending deal, for about $300 million.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Naspers, Innova Capital invest $82M more into Movile for its Latin American food delivery business, iFood, bringing total raised by Movile to $250M+ — To hear Naspers and the Latin American marketplace developer Movile tell it, food is the thing to make a company king in international markets.
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The Next Web, StartupWorld, and FinSMEs
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook appears to have quietly killed its Ticker feature, which displayed a real-time feed of friends' activity — As Facebook continues to tinker with its layout and services to spur more interactions and engagement, it seems that not even the most well-known or oldest features are spared.| Leslie Hook / Financial Times: |
Profile of Uber's chief brand officer, Bozoma Saint John, as she tries to restore the company's tarnished image — At a company full of challenging jobs, Bozoma Saint John surely has one of the toughest. As chief brand officer at Uber, her task is to try to get people to love a business …
Tweets: @monicamusonda, @ft, and @ftmag
| TechCrunch: |
An unofficial, knockoff version of the MyEtherWallet digital wallet app became the third most popular in the paid finance category in the iOS App Store — Dec 11, 2017, 8:11 amDec 11, 2017, 8:41 am — An app masquerading as MyEtherWallet.com, one of the internet's most popular services …
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