Archive for the finance Category

09 Sept 2014 / Bidness ETC – The notion of using bitcoins received significant enthusiasm in India at a seminar held at the HR College of Commerce and Economics in Mumbai last week. The seminar was headed by Vishal Gupta from the Bitcoin Alliance of India, and

09 Sept 2014 / Wall Street Journal – EBay’s mobile payments division said it will begin processing payments in bitcoin. That means consumers may soon be able to use the virtual currency to pay for Uber rides and Airbnb rooms. Braintree, which is owned by eBay, will

08 Sept 2014 / PayPal Forward – Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, we announced the general availability of One Touch™ mobile payments with PayPal, the industry’s first and only single touch payment experience on iOS (and in public beta on Android). One Touch with Venmo is also in

04 Sept 2014 / TBN Weekly – ST. PETERSBURG – From the barter system to the American Colonies creating paper IOUs that would become the first governmental paper money – currency has evolved. The evolution continues in St. Petersburg as the St. Petersburg Museum of History recently

04 Sept 2014 / Entrepreneur – An estimated 80,000 businesses already accept Bitcoin today, and not just as a marketing gimmick. Why not yours? Forward-thinking merchants of all sizes around the world are glomming onto the hot Bitcoin payments trend, many of them to cut costs and

04 Sept 2014 / Boston Magazine – MIT’s Kendall Square bookstore might be the first campus retail shop in the country to accept Bitcoins from students. “In the college industry, to my knowledge, I believe we are,” said Jerry Murphy, president of the The Harvard Cooperative Society, the

03 Sept 2014 / Engadget – If you’re anything like us, you’ve already made millions of dollars on Bitcoin. But how to keep it safe from loved ones, co-workers and other people we don’t trust? Sound Wallet promises to keep your private access keys secure as encrypted

03 Sept 2014 / Bidness ETC – Students at University of Zurich have launched a bitcoin (BTC) app called CoinBlesk, in which transactions involving bitcoins will be facilitated through a mobile device. Developed as part of a student project, the app is on a two-week trial period