Tag: technology
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Grip (Product Review)
Grip is a London based startup that specialises in “smart event networking software”. That sounds like a relevant problem to solve, because don’t we all have a (secret) love-hate relationship with ‘networking’ at events!? Yes, I’d love to meet with interesting people at events but I hate approaching people ‘cold’. Let’s have a closer look at…
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Vipps (Product Review)
I’m always on the lookout for new payment apps and I recently came across Vipps. Vipps is a Norwegian peer to peer payments app, currently only available to Norwegian users. These are the main things I’ve learned about Vipps: Main learning point: Love how apps like Vipps are making it easier and easier for people to pay…
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THEO (Product Review)
I recently came across THEO, a mobile, Japanese investment service offered by Money Design. THEO acts as a ‘robo-advisor’; enabling users to invest using their smartphone, and applying machine-based learning to offer users investment suggestions. The service allows users to start investment from 100,000 JPY. By answering nine questions (see Fig. 2 below), Money Design’s proprietary robo-advisor’s…
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Tide (Product Review)
How did Tide come to my attention? – I vaguely recall receiving an email from Tide a while ago about signing up for Tide, and a chance to learn about this new service before launch. My quick summary of Tide (before using it)? – I expect a bank account exclusively geared towards to small to…
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Cobalt uses Blockchain tech to process FX trades
It was around this time last year when I first started looking into blockchain technology and its capabilities. Even though blockchain technology was initially developed to accommodate Bitcoin transactions, my personal interest has been much more in its potential to act as “shared ledgers” for a wide variety of transactions or ‘contracts’: In the past year,…
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