Members of the Nashville Technology Council include Alto, Alliance Bernstein, UBS, BNY Mellon, HSBC, FirstBank and JP Morgan Chase are all members too.
Many of the venture capital firms in Texas tend to invest in technology being developed on the coast. A lot of the initial funding in Silicon Valley was from Texas.
Mayors from New York to Miami might be talking about bitcoin. Business communities in San Francisco or Austin might have better access to investors. However, there is something constant about Nashville.
It was not a whole year ago when Zuckerberg went online to unveil Meta as the new identity of the social media company. Prompted by the move into the metaverse, the new identity and new direction looked compelling.
Passengers may choose not to travel for a wide-variety of reasons, but freight and cargo will, for the foreseeable future, always need to be taken to market.
After 27 years, Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos handed over the company’s leadership to Andy Jassy last year. Yesterday, Jassy published his first annual shareholder letter.
As Trump plots his revenge, there is a Silicon Valley simulation under construction, with political operatives at the helms of brand-spanking-new tech companies, under the umbrella of Digital World Acquisition Corp. and Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG).
Rising customer expectations and competition from non-traditional finance players – be they app startups, or internet platforms such as Google moving into the payments space – are just the start of the market challenges facing banks and insurers. To meet client expectations in a digital world, seamless cross-platform service provision is a must, as is unimpeachable data privacy.
Last year the UK’s Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries was quoted saying: “Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg and others who are wanting to take off into the metaverse, my advice is stay in the real world
What is interesting is the “anti-China” approach the tech firms have taken as they attempt to resist calls for more stringent regulation. Silicon Valley firms are arguing that this could lead to “Chinese tech giants getting more powerful.” Why?
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