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Forbes Blockchain 50: Full list of top companies leveraging blockchain
To create our second annual list of big companies innovating with blockchain technology, we vetted hundreds of nominations. The best are leveraging the tech underlying cryptocurrencies like bitcoin to speed operations and increase transparency. Five of the most intriguing are listed below, with their underlying blockchains
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Want to make money in crypto currency? Question everything
If you want to succeed in the crazy, opaque, inefficient crypto market, start by challenging every assumption, every nugget of news, every piece of social media wisdom
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Why Solar Industries India is seeing explosive growth
Satyanarayan Nuwal's Solar Industries' shares have been a strong performer on the Bombay Stock Exchange for the last five years, up fivefold to a recent price around Rs1,000
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Roku is now betting on a model that's as old as TV: Advertising
More than a decade after being beaten by TiVo, Anthony Wood became a billionaire with cheap streaming gadgets. That business has never turned a profit. Roku is now betting its future on advertising
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Kevin Durant's hardest three-point play
The NBA superstar has come to New York with three goals in mind: A return to dominance, a defining championship and a lasting business empire. They're all interconnected
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China's king of beverages Zong Qinghou aims to revitalise Wahaha
The tycoon, who was China's richest man in 2010, 2012 and 2013, saw Wahaha's sales slide from 78 billion yuan ($11 billion) in 2013 to 46 billion yuan in 2017 before rebounding slightly to 47 billion yuan last year
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Canva: How a young kitesurfer built a $3.2 Bn (Profitable!) startup
From the unlikeliest of places, Melanie Perkins grew design app Canva into one of the most valuable software startups in the world. Her digital tools are populist, profitable and a potential threat to Adobe and Microsoft
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The Forbes US 30 Under 30 list for 2020
The young, creative and bold minds on this year's 30 Under 30 list for Forbes are proof positive that the future will be new, exciting and profoundly different
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An Edtech startup that makes colleges pay
Most edtech startups are idealistic outfits with little revenue and low valuations, but Rachel Romer Carlson's Guild Education is worth $1 billion and is on track to book $100 million in sales. Her secret? Connecting workers who have tuition benefits to colleges that will gladly pay to meet them
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Can computers outperform human stock pickers?
EquBot is on a quixotic quest to prove that they can
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Heroes of Philanthropy 2019: Azim Premji is Asia's biggest giver
The list honours individuals tackling a diverse set of issues across the Asia-Pacific, and includes Jack Ma, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Atul Nishar