You can trade money through credit cards, online pay accounts and cash, but now you can also use bitcoins. Bitcoins aren’t your typical currency. These decentralized digital currency items are exchanged through computers and smartphones internationally. You don’t need a bank and they aren’t government traded, which makes them convenient and reliant. Bitcoins don’t rely [...]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke its record tuesday with a close of 14164.53. “Stocks surpassed the nominal record set in 2007, while the last recorded real median US household income was 8% lower than its 2007 peak. Since the bleakest hours of early 2009, the stock market has clawed, scampered and inched higher — [...]
Written on 05 March 2013 by Vincent AbryThere’s more to blogging revenue than just ads, and one wildly successful blogger has proven this point well enough. Blogger Andrew Sullivan has already pulled in a total of $611,000 since his blog, The Dish, went independent from The Daily Beast beginning early January this year, reports Mashable. Instead of his blog making money through [...]
Very soon YouTube will allow you to watch your favorite TV shows right on the site in exchange for a fixed fee. According to Ad Age Digital’s multiple sources, YouTube is well on their way to offering individual channel subscriptions, possibly in as early as the second quarter of 2013. One of the people who [...]
There’s more to Psy’s Gangnam Style video than meets the eye. Already dubbed as the most-watched video ever uploaded on YouTube and getting more than a billion views, Gangnam Style has already pulled in a whopping $8 million in revenues from ads, according to Google — and that’s only from YouTube. The disclosure was made [...]
Google Inc has saved as much as $2 billion of its taxes worldwide by routing $9.8 billion in profits to Bermuda, which doesn’t have any corporate income tax. These tax savings, compare to three years ago, have doubled in amount. However, Google could be treading on unsteady ground with this, as corporate tax dodging has [...]
On Wednesday last week COO Sheryl Sandberg sold 946,588 of her Facebook Inc shares, earning her a total of $26.2 million, as posted by VentureBeat on their site. This is the biggest trade by Facebook since it went public this year. The sales were completed through several transactions, with share prices that range between $27.67 [...]
Justin Bieber is out. His hugely popular “Baby” music video is no longer the top viewed video clip on YouTube, says NYMag.com. Psy, the 34 year-old K-Pop star has kicked Bieber’s video out as his very own “Gangnam Style” video quite rapidly stole the YouTube scene, getting a more than fair share of 900 million [...]
It may soon become very possible to pay via Google Wallet, even in the physical world. In a report by Android Police, Google will be releasing a physical Google Wallet Card that’s designed to work just like any other credit card. This card, moreover, works just as seamlessly with any other major credit card chosen [...]
After Facebook disclosed details on its earnings report on Tuesday, shares climbed by more than 24%, opening at $24.12. Mashable reports that Facebook shares have not surpassed, or even hit, the $24 spot in almost three months. The surge in stock came as Facebook trumped down estimates by Wall Street in its earnings report for [...]
Google has announced that a new version of Google Wallet is coming, designed to accept both credit cards and debit cards. The updated version of Google’s mobile-payments service is now veering away from its exclusive reliance on Android, as users can now use the app on their iPhones or any other device. This move is [...]
Mover over Apple and Google; Facebook is THE most valuable brand, as far as media value goes, reports TheNextWeb. The data comes from General Sentiment in their 2012 Global Brands Media Value Report for 2012. The list shows Facebook at the #1 spot, followed by Apple and Google, respectively. This means, in simple language, that [...]
The Internet has changed the game for entrepreneurs all over the world. Starting a business used to be a big project requiring lots of financing. Today people can launch a business in a few weeks with minimal resources. Google has been a large part of this change by providing low-cost tools that allow entrepreneurs to [...]
Written on 30 Sep 2012 by Vincent AbryA new Twitter feature now allows you to easily monitor stocks and track shares on markets and companies by clicking on the stock symbol $ on the microblogging site. A click on the symbol will bring you conversations about the company in the same way that you would be able to do so with a [...]
Facebook has published its Q2 financial results, and while revenues went up by 32% to $1.18 billion, stock prices plummeted to its lowest point ever, reported The Verge. Earnings per share were at 12 cents per share but stock fell to 10 percent or more after trading hours. In the Verge’s report, tech analysts have [...]
eBay-owned Paypal has just recently acquired card.io, a mobile payments startup based in San Francisco. Paypal VP of Global Product Hill Ferguson made the announcement at Paypal’s blog on Tuesday. Card.io develops technology that allows developers to obtain credit card information through a smartphone camera. Prior to the acquisition, Paypal first worked with the San-Francisco [...]
MSNBC.com has broken ties with Microsoft and renamed its site to NBCNews.com. This move by NBC to stand apart from Microsoft allows the company to claim full ownership on its digital businesses, as shared by NBC News President Steve Capus to NY Times. This is due mainly to the acquisition of Microsoft’s 50% stake in [...]
With more than 110 million active accounts to date, Paypal is venturing beyond its online payment service to accommodate offline payment processing for several stores in the United States, including Home Depot, JC Penny, Nine West and Toys R Us. Home Depot leads the selection of retailers allowing Paypal payments for offline purchases, as it [...]
It’s not a beautiful day for Facebook. And not a bad day. Facebook IPO Price was $38. Facebook public opening price at 11:31 am was $42.05. At the close it was $38.23, falling back to IPO Price… “Facebook Inc. shares lost steam at the end of their first public trading session on Friday following a [...]
Written on 18 May 2012 by Vincent AbryCrowd funding site Kickstarter is the king of crowdfunding. Launched in april 2009, Kickstarter hosted 50,000 projects. Total of amount pledged three years later is $200 million. Most popular categories are : Films, Music, Design, Games, Art, Publishing and Technology. Discover all you wanted to know about Kickstarter in this infographic below : via
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