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Zillow Shuts Home-Flipping Business After Racking Up Losses

Zillow Shuts Home-Flipping Business After Racking Up Losses

Yahoo Finance | Patrick Clark | Nov 2, 2021 (Bloomberg) -- Zillow Group Inc. is pulling the plug on its tech-powered home-flipping operation, after an ambitious effort to transform the company collapsed when its vaunted pricing algorithms proved unequal to the task. The company plans to take writedowns of as much as $569 million and


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4 years ago
How you can experiment, learn and improve with OSC TestLab

How you can experiment, learn and improve with OSC TestLab

OSC Innovation Office | Oct 28, 2021 Did you catch our big news? The Innovation Office is launching OSC TestLab, a new testing environment for Ontario’s capital markets. We’re excited to open applications for our first test this fall. Here's how you can get involved. In the next few weeks, we will roll out the TestLab framework and the problem statements that will form


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4 years ago
Barclay’s Rise report:  Decrypting Crypto November 2021

Barclay’s Rise report: Decrypting Crypto November 2021

Barclay's Rise | Nov 8, 2021 This edition of Rise FinTech Insights focuses on how blockchain and cryptocurrencies are disrupting traditional finance and society and are a pipeline for future innovations. Digital assets in financial services are unleashing opportunities for FinTechs, investors and banks. This report highlights what recent innovations might mean to FinTechs and


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4 years ago
Aging baby boomers raise the risk of a long-term-care crisis in the U.S.

Aging baby boomers raise the risk of a long-term-care crisis in the U.S.

When the oldest baby boomers turn 80 in 2025, they will be among those who may need more support and services, and the burden will be heaviest for their kids.

4 years ago
Pay phones, dog parks and bags of silver: Clients ask advisors to invest in some wacky stuff

Pay phones, dog parks and bags of silver: Clients ask advisors to invest in some wacky stuff

Research shows managing clients' emotions boosts returns more than most other financial-advice services. Investors don't necessarily see it that way.

4 years ago
10% of China has already opened digital yuan wallets –> 20 million new retail wallets since June

10% of China has already opened digital yuan wallets –> 20 million new retail wallets since June

The Block | Wolfie Zhao | Nov 3, 2021 The number of users of China's digital yuan, also known as the e-CNY, has increased by more than six times over the past four months. That's according to Mu Changchun, head of the Digital Currency Research Institute at the People's Bank of China, who said in


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4 years ago
Liquid Avatar Technologies and Dynamics Inc. Tap Payment Infrastructure for Verification of Digital Credentials

Liquid Avatar Technologies and Dynamics Inc. Tap Payment Infrastructure for Verification of Digital Credentials

Liquid Avatar Technologies | Cara Buckspan | Nov 8, 2021 PassmateTM enables digital credentials for identity, access, and qualifications to be verified at point-of-sale payment terminals using the same platform as financial, debit and credit card transactions. Toronto, Canada - TheNewswire - November 8, 2021 -Liquid Avatar Technologies Inc. (CSE:LQID) / (OTC:LQAVF) / (FRA:4T51) /


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4 years ago
Decarbonizing Crypto:  Getting to the facts of the decarbonisation discussion

Decarbonizing Crypto: Getting to the facts of the decarbonisation discussion

Zumo | Nov 8, 2021 Decarbonising crypto: a state of play report How exactly should we be gauging the real environmental impact of cryptocurrencies? Where do we turn for our information? How do we interpret it? And how do we move forwards on this important issue, together? As part of our commitment to explore the


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4 years ago
Rise of the super app

Rise of the super app

Verge | Alex Heath | Nov 1, 2021 Social media companies are increasingly super apps that encompass more of what we do online, for better or worse Say you want to see Japanese Breakfast play in Sacramento next week with a couple of friends. The process of going requires jumping between at least a few


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4 years ago
The deadline to sign up for the enhanced child tax credit is Nov. 15 to get money this year

The deadline to sign up for the enhanced child tax credit is Nov. 15 to get money this year

The deadline for families to sign up for the enhanced child tax credit and get any money this year is Nov. 15.

4 years ago
The 'Great Resignation' could be an opportunity for a career reboot. These expert tips can help

The 'Great Resignation' could be an opportunity for a career reboot. These expert tips can help

High quit rates and record new job openings point to an employees' market. Here's how to make the most of it if you want to take time out to switch careers.

4 years ago
Top Wall Street analysts pick their favorite stocks as earnings season winds down

Top Wall Street analysts pick their favorite stocks as earnings season winds down

TipRanks analyst ranking service pinpoints Wall Street's best-performing stocks, like Ford & Steve Madden

4 years ago
Medicare may cover hearing services if Democrats' spending plan becomes law. It's only one gap in coverage that beneficiaries should prepare for

Medicare may cover hearing services if Democrats' spending plan becomes law. It's only one gap in coverage that beneficiaries should prepare for

While adding hearing services to Medicare would plug one coverage hole, there are others that enrollees should prepare themselves for.

4 years ago
The evolution of ESG investing. Here's what's next

The evolution of ESG investing. Here's what's next

There's more to sustainable investing than just screening for companies based on ESG factors. Activist funds have a track record of pushing for real changes.

4 years ago
Betterment sees 370% retirement plan growth bolstered by financial wellness efforts

Betterment sees 370% retirement plan growth bolstered by financial wellness efforts

Betterment's 401(k) business has seen a 370% increase in year-over-year retirement plan adoption so far this year.

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