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  • Social Investing and Considerations about the Stock Market Going Social

    By Dinis Guarda - August 20, 2012 | Tickers: ETFC, FB, FXCM, GOOG, LNKD, YHOO

    Investors and institutions are looking at social media signs seriously!

    Investment is becoming social. More and more investors and institutions are looking at social media signs and sentiments to look at better ways to invest and get the right portfolio. I have researched this subject an being writing about the increasing importance of social for investment and stock markets. The following is an excerpt from an article I published in more »

  • Digital Money, Wealth, Gamification and Social Media in a New World

    By Dinis Guarda - August 15, 2012 | Tickers: AXP, FB, GOOG, V

    It’s an uncertain time for the world’s finances and economies and a time for change and disruption. This article goes through a reflection about the digitalisation of money and the increasing challenges wealth with the advent of social media induces in currencies and financial global transactions. This article was first published in the social business network platform Timizzer with title The Challenges of Money, Wealth, Gamification and Social more »

  • Why Goldman Sachs and Wall Street Need Twitter and Social Media or will Extinguish Like Dinosaurs

    By Dinis Guarda - August 2, 2012 | Tickers: C, FB, FNF, GS, NES.DL

     

    Recently Goldman Sachs the Wall Street giant joined Twitter. On this follow up I decided to write my thoughts about how Wall Street, and the financial industry in general, need to adopt social media business urgently. The below thoughts comprehend an analysis how the financial industry is affected by new media and particular by social media, and how that is opening their management, boards decision and way of doing business more »

  • Jack Dorsey’s Square and the Future of Payments Industry

    By Dinis Guarda - August 2, 2012 | Tickers: AXP, AAPL, EBAY, GOOG, MA, V

    Jack Dorsey’s Square and The Future of Payments Industry

    This article is an opinion and research about the trends on the finance and payments industry and the challenges that Square company is imposing on the payment and the overall financial industry in general. Recently this startup closed $200 million funding round that will value the company at $3.25 billion. Moreover the company is well position to open some more »

  • Innovating and Investing in a Forever recession

    By Dinis Guarda - July 30, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, FB, F, ORCL, PEP

     

    Recently I published an article about how to innovate and invest in these times of a Forever Recession where I am going through ideas how to use this landscape of a continous recession to find solutions for investment. This subject is most relevant for investors as social business and innovation should be part of any company's DNA and a core factor to understand if you should or should not more »