China, Hong Kong, and the United States lead the pack in electronics production globally. Maintaining its reputation for producing cheap consumer goods in large quantities, China is a strong contributor to the electronics sector, as it is one of the country’s most important export categories. China was the top electronics
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What is a direct public offering (DPO)? A direct public offering (DPO) is a type of offering in which a company offers its securities directly to the public to raise capital. An issuing company using a DPO eliminates the middlemen – investment banks, brokers and underwriters – that are typical
Editor’s Note: Below is the Week 4 version of the City Economic Recovery Tracker (CERT), originally released on January 8, 2021. Visit the CERT homepage for the latest data. The economic recovery of the five cities in Investopedia’s City Economic Recovery Tracker (CERT) was mixed during the week of December
Pavel Durov, the founder of encrypted messaging application Telegram, has floated the idea of a marketplace that could utilize “NFT-like smart contracts” to auction highly-sought after usernames. Durov made the suggestion after the “success” of domain name auctions by The Open Network (TON), a layer-1 blockchain originally designed by the
According to multiple sources, on Tuesday, China officially began rolling out the next round of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot test program. In the city of Guanzhou, it is now possible to pay for public bus rides with the digital yuan (e-CNY) CBDC on 10 transit routes, which
Avalanche-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Trader Joe claims it may have found a way to mitigate one of DeFi’s biggest weaknesses — impermanent loss. In a newly released white paper on Tuesday called the JOE v2 Liquidity Book, authored by Quant developers and researchers Adam Sturges, TraderWaWa, Hanzo and software
The establishment of free economic zones that foster blockchain and cryptocurrency adoption in Armenia is bearing fruit as a local mining operator has added 60 megawatts of capacity to its power plant-based facility. Cryptocurrency investment platform ECOS has been operating a mining center on the grounds of the Hrazdan Power
Today’s social media landscape is dominated by Web2 corporations — mostly Meta (Facebook) and Twitter. The companies collect data from billions of users and collect billions of dollars in revenue from user-generated content. While it’s great for the corporations and their shareholders, it comes at a cost for average users
Proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain networks were all the rage in the early days of cryptocurrency when Bitcoin set the standard for security and other projects followed suit in various attempts to offer a robust, scalable network that would either support payments of efficiently transmit data. Most protocols have now shifted to proof-of-stake,