FinTech, Design & Web Dev Reads Issue 12
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Our Mobile Engineering team has been performing some great experiments with smartwatches. They’re ready to roll once the Apple Watch ships in April, and all set for Android Wear devices now. Check out some demos of their awesome work below!
Issue #12
Grab the ReadlistApple and IBM: The most enterprising apps ever. It’s time to transform how business gets done with apps that tap into the full potential of big data and analytics. IBM MobileFirst for iOS apps, made exclusively for iPhone and iPad, are now…
Barclays set to offer video banking Steven Cooper, CEO of Personal Banking at Barclays, said the service would be a “watershed moment” Barclays Bank is set to offer a new one-to-one video service to some customers from 8 December -…
This Brilliant New App Calculates Where You Need To Go And Sends You A Bike Or A Tesla In Five Minutes If you live in the city and you’re under 35, there’s a good chance you don’t care about owning a car. All that really matters is getting where you need to go. A new transit app called Shift figures…
UBS Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Advise Wealthy Clients UBS Group AG, facing the threat of competition from Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., has turned to a Singapore-based technology company that uses artificial intelligence for help delivering…
Fintech Fast Forward 2015 What will shape the future of Fintech in 2015 and beyond? 2014 marks the year that fintech finally came out from behind the woodpile after a long hiatus that started with the credit crisis in 2008….
Quantcha’s Search Engine Helps Retail Investors Find & Analyze Options Strategies The startup has launched an options search engine that filters and analyzes thousands of strategies based on an investor’s stock price forecast, trade budget, and risk/reward parameters.Retail…
Vanguard quintuples assets in robo-adviser, leapfrogging competitors The Vanguard Group Inc. has more than quintupled the assets in its human-augmented online advice platform this year, despite the program not yet being made widely available.Assets in Vanguard…
NestEgg Wealth acquisition brings white-label robo to advisers Online investment advice firm NestEgg Wealth was acquired for an undisclosed sum by a new technology firm, Vanare, which sells an integrated wealth management platform for financial advisers,…
2014 in Computing: Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence The holy grail of artificial intelligence—creating software that comes close to mimicking human intelligence—remains far off. But 2014 saw major strides in machine learning software…
JavaScript in 2015 - Glen Maddern: Internet Pro In the last few days of 2014, I resurrected my long-neglected GIF-beatmatching project DJGif to throw a New Year’s party on my rooftop: Ʌbelard playing his first set of 2015 A DJ using Ableton…
40 must-watch keynotes of 2014 As we continue our series of posts looking back at the best content shared here on Visualoop throughout 2014, more and more we are convinced that this year was, indeed, a remarkable one for…
Fidelity-BlackRock Group Prepares Dark Pool for Big Stock Trades A group of nine fund managers is planning to start a dark pool dedicated to large stock trades later this year, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The new market – named Luminex –…
Will 2015 See The Death Of The Robo Advisors? Editor’s note: Shane Leonard, CFA, is the CEO and co-founder of Stockflare, a financial data company. Previously he worked as a stockbroker at Citigroup and Credit Suisse. If 2014 was the…
Banking Start-Ups Adopt New Tools for Lending SAN FRANCISCO — When bankers of the future decide whether to make a loan, they may look to see if potential customers use only capital letters when filling out forms, or at the amount of time…
Ray Dalio is building robots Larry Busacca/GettyRay Dalio. The world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, is almost ready to launch a new artificial intelligence team, Bloomberg reports. Billionaire Ray Dalio’s hedge…
Node.js in Flames We’ve been busy building our next-generation Netflix.com web application using Node.js. You can learn more about our approach from the presentation we delivered at NodeConf.eu a few months…
Future of Popular Coding Tool in Doubt After It Splits in Two Node.js, a popular and influential tool for building and running modern internet services, has split in two. Late yesterday, some of its primary developers “forked” this…