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Apple has no intention to follow Facebook in creating its own digital currency, the company’s CEO Tim Cook has said.Cook “not comfortable” about firms creating moneySpeaking in an interview with French media magazine Les Echos on Oct. 4, Tim Cook poured cold water on the idea that Apple could
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In a recent CNBC interview, Ripple’s senior vice president of customer success Marcus Treacher has described Facebook’s Libra crypto project as a “walled garden,” meaning a closed system.He also added that in contrast with Facebook Libra, Ripple (XRP)trade is no walled garden; however, the social media giant’s entry into the
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Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is in talks with the House Financial Services Committee to testify on Libra, Facebook’s stablecoin.Discussions on market power and LibraAccording to a Bloomberg article from Sept. 26, Facebook is currently trying to get its chief operating officer Sandberg in front of the House
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While addressing the committee on Digital Agenda of the Deutscher Bundestag, the chairman of the Committee on Payments and Markets Infrastructures (CPMI) and the European Central Bank (ECB) board member, Benoit Coeure, took the time to give an in-depth explanation on the challenges facing our age-long financial market, how digital
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Facebook has recently completed the acquisition of Servicefriend, an Israeli startup that develops AI-based chatbots. Facebook is planning to use the company’s services for Calibra customer services, a digital wallet that Facebook is developing along with its native cryptocurrency Libra.Facebook is planning to launch Libra, a stablecoin developed for peer
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International Business Machines (IBM), one of the largest international IT companies worldwide, stated on Monday that it is looking forward to collaborating with Facebook and working on its cryptocurrency Libra.IBM’s general manager of blockchain and crypto services, Jason Kelley, said in an interview that the company encourages cooperation between companies
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Facebook has acquired ServiceFriend which is a startup that builds bots. Experts are speculating that this is for the new Calibra wallet support service, however, Facebook hasn’t yet approved this news.While Facebook is prepping for its Libra launch in 2020, it also has acquired ServiceFriend which is a start-up that
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Facebook has acquired the artificial intelligence-based chat-bot startup Servicefriend for customer service for Calibra, the digital wallet for Facebook’s planned Libra cryptocurrency.AI chatbots for Calibra’s customer serviceA Sept. 19 article by Israeli business newspaper the Marker reported that Facebook has acquired startup Servicefriends in order to build a messaging
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Fraudulent advertisements have reportedly begun circulating Facebook offering to join the Telegram Open Network (TON) investment platform.As Russian news outlet Kommersant reported on Sept. 20, ads promoting the so called “Successful Investor” account appeared on Facebook. Once clicked, the ad leads to a website disguised as Russian economics and
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David Marcus, the head of Calibra at Facebook, has said that a 2020 launch for Libra remains the company’s goal, despite regulators’ intense hostility toward the project.In an interview with Swiss newspaper NZZ on Sept. 20, he said that in the intervening time, the team behind Libra would need
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