Venta directa entre consumidores, precios en tiempo real, abaratamiento de costes, menor despilfarro de energÃa durante la transmisión, apoyo a las renovables y lucha contra el fraude. Estos son todos los beneficios que la cadena de bloques podrÃa aportar al sector
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Las tiendas de pruebas de ADN para el consumidor se han convertido en una especie de bazar donde la pseudociencia y el ‘marketing’ se mezclan para ofrecer servicios inútiles, como una bufanda personalizada con el patrón genético o sin aval cientÃfico
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PayPal, the digital payments company, shared its growing financials after the bell on Thursday. The company beat Wall Street’s expectations, posting an adjusted 46 cents per share. Analysts had been predicting 43 cents. Revenue was also better than predicted, with $3.24 billion, versus the $3.16 billion forecast. It’s also up 22% since last year. PayPal also raised full-year… Read More
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Stitch Fix has filed to go public, finally revealing the financial guts of the startup which will be a test of modern e-commerce businesses that are looking to hit the market — and the numbers look pretty great! Let’s start off really quick with profits: aside from the last two quarters, Stitch Fix posted a six-quarter streak of positive net income. We talk a lot about companies… Read More
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New York-based MongoDB went public on the Nasdaq on Thursday, finishing the day at $32.07, up 34% above its IPO price of $24. This is also above the proposed range of $20 to $22, which had been increased from $18 to $20.
The IPO netted $192 million for the company and valued it at about $1.18 billion. By the end of the day’s trading, the market cap was about $1.6 billion, the same as… Read More
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Follow the riveting story of Lulu, a good dog just not cut out for the CIA’s bomb-sniffing K9 Corps training program.
Source: CNET
An Apple fan emailed the CEO to ask what’s up with the Mac Mini and received a hopeful response.
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If true, it could be the earliest production cut in iPhone history.
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The financing from Google’s parent company brings the ride-hailing company’s valuation to $11 billion, which could help fuel its quest to beat rival Uber.
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A detailed blog posting in the company’s machine learning journal makes public the technical effort that went into its “Hey Siri” feature — a capability so banal that I’d almost believe Apple was trying to make a point with highbrow mockery. Even so, it’s worth taking the opportunity to explore exactly how much effort goes into the features that do, for… Read More
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