Beyond the price spike, Ethereum is also attracting attention from giants in finance and technology, like JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and IBM, which have described it as a sort of Bitcoin 2.0. The rise of the relatively new virtual currency has been …
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DENVER — Marijuana is rapidly becoming a big, semi-legal business across the country, with $5.7 billion in sales last year and tens of thousands of people working and paying taxes as they cultivate, package and sell cannabis.
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China isn't just contending with falling stocks, a plunging currency and a slowing economy.
It's got vampire trouble, too.
The Chinese economy is pock-marked with companies that can't pay their bills and survive only with government help. Jiangshi, the Chinese call them — "vampire companies." Or zombies.
Read more... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/vampire-attack-debt-laden-companies-151812817.html
Vampire attack: Debt-laden companies imperil China's growth
