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PayPal’s Dan Schulman on seizing the opportunities in digital payments

In early 2016, PayPal’s chief executive Dan Schulman decided he really needed to wrap his head around cryptocurrency.  Back then, a single bitcoin could be purchased for about $400, while PayPal was worth about $50bn, after splitting from its former parent eBay a few months earlier.  “When I came in [as CEO in 2014], I…
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22 August 2021 0

Gillmor Gang: Cryptonomics

[embedded content] Twitter seems on an aggressive path to putting pedal to the metal. From its earliest days as a failwhale generator and a ransacker of third party successes, the company under Jack Dorsey’s stewardship has become an acquirer of tools to support the creators it hosts. Twitter Spaces, its Clubhouse clone, has steadily improved…
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22 August 2021 0

Suing your way to the stars

Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! I’m back from a very fun and rehabilitative couple weeks away from my phone, my Twitter account and the news cycle. That said, I actually really missed writing this newsletter, and while Greg did a fantastic job while I was out, I won’t be handing over…
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22 August 2021 0

In building the heart of a star, humans inch closer to net zero

Renewable energy updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Renewable energy news. The writer is a science commentator The fireball at the heart of our solar system is powered by nuclear fusion. The crushing pressures in the sun’s core squeeze hydrogen nuclei together so powerfully that they overcome…
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22 August 2021 0

The tough calculus of emissions and the future of EVs

Mark Mills Contributor Mark Mills is the author of the forthcoming book, “The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s.” He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering. More posts by this contributor…
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22 August 2021 0

Technology can help democratise financial services

Financial services updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Financial services news. The writer is professor of financial economics at Imperial College London The economic damage wrought by the pandemic has been partly masked by the extraordinary levels of support infused by governments worldwide. Come September, many pandemic…
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