As the news Thursday (Jan. 9) that FV Bank is expanding its stablecoin capabilities via a partnership with PayPal underscores, businesses need a blockchain strategy. The problem? At a technical and business level, certain blockchain applications remain cramped by interoperability. At their core, blockchain payments like stablecoins...
Decentralization may be coming to social media’s walled gardens, and that means the future of social commerce could be more fediverse than it is metaverse. But what exactly is the fediverse? At a literal level, the fediverse is short for “federated universe” and it represents...
Read anything about the recent March 7 enforcement date for the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) and you’ll inevitably see a focus on big tech companies, potential fines and a general sense that this is a salvo in the EU’s desire to become “a digital cop.” Some of...
Meta-owned social media platform Threads has begun tests related to its previously announced plans to make posts available on other platforms as well. “Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol,” Meta CEO...
March 18, 2024
Read anything about the recent March 7 enforcement date for the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) and you’ll inevitably see a focus on big tech companies, potential fines and a general sense that this is a salvo in the EU’s desire to become “a digital cop.” Some of that is accurate and relevant. But when the dust settles […]
December 04, 2023
A decade ago, in 2013, Amazon counted around a thousand robots across its fulfilment warehouses. That same year, tech giant Google spent more on headcount and people costs than it...
June 28, 2023
As the world becomes increasingly digital, the idea of instant gratification has become the norm. From streaming movies to ordering groceries, consumers expect everything to be available at their fingertips...
November 09, 2022
Whether you’re talking about remittances sent home by migrant workers or other larger sums moving from one country to another, cross-border payments are the part of finance that crypto companies...
April 30, 2025
Technology companies Meta, Spotify, Match Group and Garmin have founded a lobbying group that said it will “combat anti-competitive practices by smartphone platform owners.” The Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience (CCME) will advocate for hardware and software interoperability, a level playing field in the app marketplace and age verification at the app store level, […]
December 13, 2023
Meta-owned social media platform Threads has begun tests related to its previously announced plans to make posts available on other platforms as well. “Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts...
November 30, 2023
Global messaging platform Swift says cross-border payments to Europe can reach their destination in seconds. That’s due to this week’s launch of the European Payment Council’s (EPC) One-Leg-Out Instant Credit...
September 18, 2023
Cross River Bank and Plaid say they’ve joined FedNow® Service to widen customers’ instant payment access. The collaboration, announced Monday (Sept. 18), also makes Cross River among the first financial institutions to bring...
