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Digital Currency and Trade Systems Are Tearing up the Rules

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These platforms—which combine open alliance legal agreements (like Visa or Mastercard's legal agreements), distributed ledger technology (for example, blockchains like IBM's hyperledger ), and end-to-end encryption—can handle not only payments but also finance, trade, tax, and audits in a uniform manner.

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Tesla spent $200,000 to advertise on Elon Musk’s X so far

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We had doubts that Tesla would start advertising on X because of the conflict of interest nad on top of it, Musk himself ad mitted that it would be “preaching to the choir.” As part of a multi-platform advertising campaign, Tesla also directly or indirectly purchased advertising on X, which totaled approximately $0.2

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MIT study attributes > 50% of Li-ion rapid cost decline to investment in materials & chemistry R&D

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A team at MIT has analyzed what has accounted for the extraordinary savings and found that by far the biggest single factor was work on research and development, particularly in chemistry and materials science. Economies of scale comprises cost changes that result from increasing plant sizes and purchasing volumes. Ziegler et al.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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And in 2005, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group purchased IBM's PC business. The purchase price probably would have been around $100 million in 1986, an amount that by 1993 would have yielded a return of $3 billion and in subsequent decades orders of magnitude more. And I had witnessed a third of IBM's history.

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