What Is Investing?

What Is Investing? Investing is a way to increase the amount of money you have by putting it into financial products. These include bank accounts, money market accounts, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, precious metals and property. Anything that potentially increases in value can be an investment.

(source: sapling.com)

Super Bowl Curse Comes for Crypto as Layoffs Mount
Super Bowl Curse Comes for Crypto as Layoffs Mount
June 14, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

The NFL’s 2000 championship game was named the “Dot-Com Super Bowl” when some 20 of its hugely expensive ads were bought up by tech companies...

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Citi, Others Invest in Working Capital FinTech LiquidX
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June 10, 2022  |  B2B Payments

LiquidX, which provides a blockchain-based platform for executing financial transactions, announced Friday (June 10) it had raised new funds from existing investors Broadridge Financial Solutions...

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June 09, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

A shakeout is coming to the roughly 19,000 cryptocurrencies battling for a piece of the blockchain pie, according to industry insiders like Ripple CEO Brad...

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Inditex Boosted By Zara Foot Traffic Increase, Unbowed on Online Sales Goals
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June 08, 2022  |  Retail

Global clothing retailer Inditex, the parent company of Zara, saw “a significant rebound in traffic” to its stores worldwide in the first quarter of fiscal...

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Do Crypto VCs Fuel a Land Rush Mentality that Crushes Investors?
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June 01, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

If there’s one thing the crypto industry of 2022 has more in common with the dot-com industry of 2000 than anything else, it’s the build-launch-test...

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Bonfire Ventures Raises $231M for B2B Software Startups
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June 01, 2022  |  B2B Payments

Bonfire Ventures, which helps B2B software companies raise money during their seed stage, has closed a $168 million seed funding round and a $63 million...

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Affirm, Upstart Help FinTech IPO Index Beat Sagging Retailers, Markets
Affirm, Upstart Help FinTech IPO Index Beat Sagging Retailers, Markets
May 19, 2022  |  IPO

Not bad. Relatively speaking, that is. In a week where sentiment in the stock market has been driven by retailers — Target, Lowe’s, et al...

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Token.io Raises $40M To Drive Push for Account-to-Account Payments
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May 13, 2022  |  Payment Methods

Open banking payments platform Token.io raised $40 million in a Series C funding round that it will use to continue advancing the shift from traditional...

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Car-Sharing Platform Getaround Going Public in SPAC Deal
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May 11, 2022  |  SPAC

Digital car-sharing marketplace Getaround is going public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal with InterPrivate II Acquisition Corp., with a combined value of...

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