Visualizing the Rise of Co-Working Spaces In the modern era, people can work from anywhere and everywhere. Thanks to the cloud, wireless protocols, and collaboration software, it’s possible for workers to be productive from a nearby coffee shop, another town, or a different country entirely. While this unprecedented freedom allows us to work further apart,…
Benjamin Franklin is credited to stating “nothing in this world can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” However, you only die once. You face taxes every day. Payroll tax, income tax, sales tax, use tax, self-employment tax, property tax, excise tax, alternative minimum tax, capital gains tax, etc. Paying taxes isn’t all…
Binance Coin was up more than 25% in the last 24 hours, hitting a high of $11.00, driven on news that it will launch its own “tailored blockchain” in an apparent first step toward building a decentralized exchange (DEX). The market cap was just shy of $1 billion. Close to $200 million had traded…
A study of Google search results by anti-tracking rival DuckDuckGo has suggested that escaping the so-called ‘filter bubble’ of personalized online searches is a perniciously hard problem for the put upon Internet consumer who just wants to carve out a little unbiased space online, free from the suggestive taint of algorithmic fingers. DDG reckons it’s…
Chinese consumers conduct 11 times more mobile payments than their counterparts in the United States, so as we look to the future of digital wallets, China is a natural place to start. Forecasts for mobile payment adoption in the United States remain flat for now; however, two major brands – WeChat and AliPay – offer…
Say goodbye to Facebook’s Friend List Feeds feature. The feeds allowed you create a personalized version of social network that only showed posts from a predefined friend list. But the feature has now been shut down, Facebook announced Thursday. Friends List Feeds worked with Friend Lists (which you’ll still be able to create),…
Italy’s Competition Authority on Friday slapped Facebook with two fines that total 10 million euros ($11.4M) for using people’s data for commercial purposes in ways that break the country’s laws. Italy issued the first fine after deciding that the social network persuaded people to register for accounts on the platform without informing them during the…
