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What is digital currency?

Tom Spencer

These included DigiCash (1989 – 1998), e-gold (1996 – 2009), and Liberty Reserve (2006 – 2013). An unregulated digital currency is controlled not by a central bank but by its developers, founding organization, or network protocol. The very first digital currencies were all created by pioneers and were thus completely unregulated.

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Lettuce Bot - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

MishTalk

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Blue River, which has raised more than $3 million in venture capital, also plans to develop machines to automate weeding – and eventually harvesting – using many of the same technologies.

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Executives on Demand: What are part-time CEOs and why does every business need one?

SkillQuo

Now, the on-demand executive phenomenon has truly spread across the world and according to American consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, the UK market for on-demand executives is one of the world’s most developed, accounting for $1.8 billion in revenue in 2009. An example: Marketing.

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Consultant Ninja: Health Care is Not a Right: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Friday, July 31, 2009. July 31, 2009 at 12:50 PM. July 31, 2009 at 3:42 PM. As a developed nation, ethically we should find a measure to care for those who are incapable of caring from themselves. lawsuits, FDA policy, patent protections (longer or shorter), drug re purposing, marketing, etc.) Joseph Greiner.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Oliver Wyman’s CEO, John Drzik, states that the long-term aspiration is to be recognized widely in the market as the gold standard in consulting. In the meantime, Marsh & McLennan was creating Mercer; in 1975, Mercer was developed as the human resources consulting arm of Marsh & McLennan.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation.