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The History of Ecommerce: What The Past Says About Tomorrow’s Retail Challenges

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2011 Google Wallet launches as an online payment system. 2011 Facebook launches sponsored stories as a form of early advertising. 2011 Stripe launches. English inventor Michael Aldrich introduced electronic shopping in 1979, which operated by connecting a modified TV to a transaction-processing computer via telephone line.

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Crypto And The Real World – What People Aren’t Telling You In All The Hype

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In fact, between the years of 2011 and 2016, the return on investment from Bitcoin has been nothing short of outstanding and can embarrass any other stock you can think of. Cryptocurrency exchanges operate 24 hours a day and are not based in any one country. Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency and it remains the highest valued.