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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Buying and selling cryptocurrencies is a big business. The fraction that involved buying actual stuff (goods and services) is so small that it’s hard to measure. In de Bono’s vision, “large manufacturing corporations” should create their own currencies, which could be used to buy their products. billion.

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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

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Although television technology had been in development for decades, and the BBC had been airing live programs since 1929 in the United Kingdom, competing technologies and licensing disputes kept the U.S. But if television really was going to be the future, RCA had to convince consumers to buy sets. television market from taking off.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

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and relatively small price tag (just US $18,500!), Go Vintage With The Tandy Model 100 The growth in retrocomputing has driven up the price of many classic computers and game consoles: 10 years ago, you could barely give away a Commodore 64, while today ones in good working condition often go for between US $200 and $300.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

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He ended up buying the Revolt motorcycle. I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. It enables groups of people to come together and buy collectively. Steel prices have gone north in two years, am sure that the market value of the asset will be much more than the book value. He himself was in the market for one.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. Yeah, go buy a 59k Tesla that can go 200 miles… then your screwed, sure go park and get a hotel and charge it for 8 hours… then go another 200 miles, great for long trips i’m sure. I would buy a Volt for $40K. — Ken Smith 4.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. And with EV maintenance you are less exposed to being ripped off buy the ICE car repairman. — Jeff U 6.

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