Editor's note: Timothy Stanley is a historian and columnist for Britain's Daily Telegraph. He is the author of the new book "Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration Between L.A. and D.C. Revolutionized American Politics." The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author...
After a massive surge in popularity in 2013 and the first half of 2014, bitcoin has been largely absent from the news headlines lately. However, over the past few months, the number of mainstream retailers that accept bitcoin has grown considerably...
Philip Rosedale is telling me about his new company, but I can’t stop myself from looking down at my hands. With palms up, I watch with fascination as I slowly wiggle my fingers and form the “OK” sign. I curl my hands into fists as I reach my arms out in front...
Big Macs are becoming a big 'nyet' in Russia. Officials are continuing their crackdown on McDonald's (MCD) by forcing the closure of nine restaurants and investigating roughly half of the country's 446 locations...
(by FRASER CAIN) Consider this. The Universe is enormous. There are as many as four-hundred billion stars in our galaxy: the Milky Way. And there are more than one-hundred-and-seventy billion galaxies in the observable Universe...
(by ELIZABETH HOWELL) “One of the main things we’re focused on is the notion of existential risk, getting a sense of what the probability of human extinction is,” said Andrew Snyder-Beattie, who recently wrote a piece on the “Great Filter” for Ars Technica...
Last year, the total trading volume for the month of September reached $260 billion for Alpari group, meaning that the group suffered about $43 billion drop compared to 2013, coming out at a yearly 16.5% decrease...
The decrease in market making profits can also be attributed to lower average volatility, higher global M&A activity and a trading error that resulted in a loss of approximately $16 million during the quarter. Interactive Brokers Group, Inc...
Hedge funds increased the level of assets under management according to an industry report. Investors added net inflows of $18 bln during the three months of July to September thus taking the total AUM to $2.82 trln...
The AMPL system is a sophisticated modeling tool that supports the entire optimization modeling lifecycle: development, testing, deployment, and maintenance...
According to the WSJ, Kraken’s planned Japanese bitcoin exchange is set to launch by the end of the month. The news comes as it was reported in August that the firm was planning to expand its operation to Japan...
In what continues to be a hot market for venture investing, bitcoin payment service provider, Bitnet Technologies has announced that it has raised $14.5 million in Series A funding...
First Global Credit (FCG) has partnered with DATAFORT to enhance the integrity and transparency of their bitcoin-based stock investing offering...
Mimetic Markets has unveiled an offering that it says will allow clients to create a bitcoin exchange within minutes, using their “Sputnik Exchange Engine”. The concept seeks to go beyond white label solutions, like those found in the forex trading industry...
GoCoin has partnered with payment processor Ilixium to enable digital currency payments for online gaming companies. GoCoin made the announcement at the Excellence in Gaming (EiG) conference in Berlin...
The Russian developer releases the latest update to its MT4 trading platform, Build 710, featuring better trading signals visuals, blogs with "rumors about companies," a new exposure tab and more...
Google Ventures has landed. As trailed in July, the investment arm of the world’s second favorite technology firm has manifested in London. Yesterday, Google Ventures set out its strategy for investing $100m in Europe and disclosed who it’s hired to lead the new unit...
(BY JOHN CASSIDY) In general, I’m not a fan of the economics Nobel. Too often, since it was first given, in 1969, it has been used to reward free-market orthodoxy, as evidenced by the plethora of prizes awarded to scholars at the University of Chicago...
The popular Microsoft program has been implicated in the financial crisis, Europe’s growth problems, the U.S.’s weak economic recovery, and pretty much everything else. FORTUNE — Apparently some really smart people have trouble mastering Microsoft Office...
