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Can Ripple (XRP) Make Money??

September 26, 2018September 26, 2018 daniel Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Can Ripple (XRP) Make Money??, Coil, How Central Banks will make or Break Ripple (XRP), Is Ripple (XRP) Secure?, Make Money from YouTube, pay Ripple tips, Ripple (XRP), Ripple (XRP) and Coil, Ripple (XRP) Bets Big on Japanese Remittances, Ripple (XRP) definitely has value., Ripple (XRP) has Future Moneymaking Potential, Ripple (XRP) Tries to tap a $613 billion remittance market, Speculators are bullish on Ripple because it has attracted a lot of high-powered corporate interest., the Coil payments, Why are Speculators Bullish on Ripple (XRP)?, Will Ripple (XRP) and Coil Make Money from YouTube?

Given these points, speculators should watch closely to see how central banks react to Ripple. Ultimately, Ripple’s fate is in the central banks’ hands. If central banks accept it; Ripple can become the most valuable cryptocurrency around.

Consequently, a central bank could increase Ripple’s value by using it. Conversely, a central bank could destroy Ripple (XRP) by banning or suppressing it.

Ripple is interested in remittances because they are big business. The World Bank calculates that people sent $613 worth of remittances in 2017. Significantly, the volume of remittances grew from $573 billion in 2016 to $613 billion in 2017.

Opportunities

Google Tez Becomes Google Pay

September 4, 2018 daniel Alipay, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Google Pay, Google Tez Becomes Google Pay, Google Tez., PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), PayPal works through Google Pay., QR Code, QR Code is More Popular than NFC Payment, Tez, Walmart Pay, WeChat Pay, Why Apple Pay and PayPal will Adopt QR Code, Will Google Pay add QR Code?

The Tez rebranding is likely to convince Walmart not to accept NFC payments. Instead, Walmart will demand that Alphabet and Apple adopt QR Code.

Google Pay is likely to roll out QR Code in the United States. That will force Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to add QR code to Apple Pay. A natural consequence of Google Pay QR Code is PayPal adopting QR Code. The addition of QR Code to Venmo is inevitable too.

The tech giants will have to go along because Walmart is on track to generate $500.34 billion (half a trillion dollars) in revenues in 2018, Statista forecast. Access to that revenue is probably what convinced Alphabet to add QR Code to Google Pay.

The Death Spiral

Will Best Buy Die?

August 25, 2018 daniel Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Best Buy Needs to work with Amazon Google and Apple not against them, Cash Flow Explains why Best Buy Bought Great Call, Geek Squad, Great Call, How safe is the Best Buy Dividend?, Is Best Buy a Value Investment?, Jitterbug, Mr. Market overvalues best Buy, smartphone for dummies, What’s wrong with Best Buy’s Great Call Acquisition?, Will Best Buy Die?

By acquiring Great Call, Best Buy is competing directly with Apple, Amazon, and indirectly with Alphabet. I cannot see how Best Buy can win that battle.
I see two big problems with Great Call that can make it a drain on Best Buy’s bottom line.
Great Call is a direct marketing company. It sells specific products directly through various channels. Best Buy is a general-purpose retailer that sells a wide variety of products and services through brick and mortar stores. I do not see the synergy there.

Crazy Stocks

NAMPOF an Alternative to Fang Stocks

August 23, 2018August 24, 2018 daniel Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Are the NaMPOF stocks better than the FANG Stocks?, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), FANG Stocks, FANG Stocks for Value Investors, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), NAMPOF an Alternative to Fang Stocks, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), the NAMPOF, What is wrong with the FANG Stocks?

You can think the NAMPOF of as a FANG for value investors. Holdings in NAMPOF are more diversified than FANG and some of them generate dividend income.

It diversifies NAMPOF because NVIDIA and Apple are hardware makers and PayPal is in finance. FANG scares me because it is almost all software based. Something I dislike about FANG is the lack of a financial stock.

Containing six stocks further diversifies. Four NAMPOF stocks; Apple, NVIDIA, Oracle, and Microsoft, are proven moneymakers.

I consider PayPal and Facebook speculative because they base their businesses on growth. However, both companies have showed the capability to generate vast amounts of cash.

I designed the NAMPOF to offer a little more than safety and income than FANG at a comparable rate of growth.

Uncategorized

Google Pay in Germany

July 27, 2018July 27, 2018 daniel Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Android Pay, Google Pay in Germany, Google Pay Send, Google Pay Send Integrated with Google Pay, The Google Pay Send Peer-to-peer (P2P) solution

Other features in the new and improved Google Pay include access to loyalty cards. The new Google Pay is supposed to be in sync with your Google Account. That should make it easier to add banking and credit card information.

Movie, concert, sports, theater, train, bus, and plane tickets will be accessible through the passes tab in Google Pay. That will enable people to use their Google Account as a digital ticket for travel or entertainment.

Market Insanity

Is Uber Now a Value Investment?

June 2, 2018 daniel Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Is Uber a Classic value Investment?, Is Uber Now a Value Investment?, Uber CEO wants to Team Up with Waymo, Uber Technologies Inc., Uber Warren Buffett, UberEats is worth $6 Billion

Uber is now a classic value investment because it is a good company with a good product that has been having serious problems. There’s nothing wrong with Uber’s basic service or business model just its corporate culture.
Now that Khosrowshahi is cleaning that mess up, Uber stands to greatly improve. Buffett called himself “a great admirer of Dara” in a chat with CNBC. The sage of Omaha pointed out that some of the details in the Bloomberg story were wrong.

Opportunities

Is the Avis-Budget Group Making Money?

March 20, 2018 daniel Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Avis-Budget Group, Fiat Chrysler (NYSE: FCAU), GrubHub (NYSE: GRUB), Is Avis-Budget Group a Value Investment?, Is Avis-Budget Making Money?, Is the Avis-Budget Group Making Money?, Self Driving Vehicles, The self-driving ZipCar, Waymo, Zipcar

Such a deal will give Avis-Budget experience maintaining and deploying self-driving vehicles. It also puts it in a position to provide autonomous vehicles for ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft, and delivery services like GrubHub (NYSE: GRUB), Instacart, Parcel, and Shipt.

Delivery is going to be a huge market for self-driving vehicles because of the involvement of big retail. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is planning to offer grocery delivery to 40% of the US population through services like Uber, Deliv, and Lyft. Target (NYSE: TGT) has bought the grocery delivery solution Shipt, and Kroger (NYSE: KR) is partnering with Instacart.

Market Insanity

The Alphabet Money Machine, threatened by Trump?

March 15, 2018 daniel Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is still demonstrating extraordinary moneymaking capabilities., Alphabet Money Machine, blockchain-delivered entertainment, Google is Doing More Business but Making Less Money, Google Still Owns Search and Digital Advertising, Google’s expenses have increased, How Trump’s Trade War Threatens Alphabet, Telegram, Telegram ICO, The Alphabet Money Machine, The Greatest Threat to Alphabet

The biggest current threat to Alphabet might be the trade war that U.S. President Donald J. Trump (R-New York) has declared against the European Union (EU).

The greatest long-term threat to Alphabet is all the competition it is receiving in advertising. Menaces there include social media such as Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) and its WhatsApp solution. WhatsApp had 1.5 billion users in December 2017, Statista calculated.

Cryptocurrency

Apple Pay Cash goes International or Does it?

February 28, 2018 daniel Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and Spain., Apple Pay Cash, Apple Pay Cash goes International or Does it?, Apple Pay Cash might soon be rolled out in Brazil, Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google Pay, Ireland, PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL), Tez

It is not clear what countries Apple Pay Cash will go to next, but the United Kingdom is a likely possibility – because it is right next door to Ireland.
Members of the European Union such as France, Italy, and Germany, are also a strong possibility because Ireland and Spain are both members of the Eurozone.

Cryptocurrency

ICOs Banking on Advertising the Basic Attention Token and Adbank

January 1, 2018January 1, 2018 daniel Ad fraud, ad-blocking solutions, ADB, AdBank ICO, Adbank Network (ADB), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Basic Attention Token, Basic Attention Token (BAT), Basic Attention Token initial cryptocurrency offering, BAT, Blockchain Advertising Markets, Brave Browser, Building a New Advertising Market, Can Blockchain Advertising Markets Compete with Google (and Facebook), COs Banking on Advertising the Basic Attention Token and Adbank, ERC20 tokens, giant corporate-owned advertising ecosystems, How Many ICOS is Too Many?, Is Basic Attention Token a Good Investment?, Trying to cash in on a $220 Billion Market, Will Adbank and Brave Make Money?

The truly fascinating part of the Brave/Adbank story is that both organizations are trying to use the same technology; Ethereum smart contracts, to solve the same problem.

Two rival Ethereum-based blockchain solutions are betting that advertising profits can be translated into cryptocurrency cash.

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