Nasdaq Innovation

The pandemic-fueled rush of digital transformation accelerated the need for cloud adoption while compounding visibility and complexity challenges.

Yesterday was a massive day in the world of self-driving cars or autonomous vehicles (AVs). Cruise, a subsidiary of GM (GM), gave rides in their completely driverless AVs to fare-paying customers in San Francisco, marking the first time that has happened in the U.S.

If we’re going to design truly immersive metaverses, we’ll need help from forward-thinking artists and designers who understand exactly what it takes to make something hyper-realistic but never uncanny.  

The economic model of the metaverse differs significantly from what we currently know and use. However, the change will not be immediate or obvious, and that presents a challenge for business leaders accustomed to making informed decisions. 

By partnering with Nasdaq’s eVestment, the Singapore-based Eastspring is setting itself apart, embracing competitive market data and analysis to properly position its investment strategies and provide asset owners and investment consultants the critical information they require.

We speak with Merav Ozair, Blockchain Expert & FinTech Professor at Rutgers Business School about the differences between Web3 and the metaverse, and how soon they will be integrated into our daily lives, along with the biggest challenges standing in the way of adoption.   

Web3 has (unsurprisingly) turned out to be quite the phenomenon that has disrupted numerous industries, including finance, law, education and so much more. Despite all that has already changed with Web3 rapidly becoming more mainstream.

This has resulted in an increased push towards improving local infrastructure and with it, the evolution of smart cities that can better manage challenging conditions and be more attractive to potential residents as more employers offer remote work options and flexibility.

PhillipCapital is enabling investors to trade smarter with a suite of financial literacy services and Nasdaq market data

Global innovators have turned their attention to the real estate industry as the next NFT opportunity. This merger of the world’s oldest and newest asset classes could very well prove to be the single biggest utility for NFTs.

Most existing marketplaces use centralized databases for the creation and storage of NFTs. Although these platforms appear highly accessible and sustainable, which is also partly true, they have various shortcomings.

The investor experience—positive or negative—is likely to influence perception of the fund adviser.

Land has forever been intrinsically valuable to humanity, synonymous with prosperity and security. Besides generating high returns from rents and leases, individuals rely heavily upon land as an inflationary hedge. But real estate has its own set of disadvantages.

Countries in Africa have the opportunity to become global leaders by adopting Bitcoin and providing a pathway for innovation. All fiat leads to Bitcoin.

Play-to-earn games reward players with in-game tokens, NFTs or other digital assets just by participating and playing video games. 

It seems as if new cryptocurrency startups and memecoins are launching every other week, and many investors may be concerned that this is leading to a bubble.

In this week’s World Reimagined, we are looking at a few of the companies and technologies working to bring you just that, be it through augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) or mixed reality (MR).

To learn more about innovation investing and the unique investment mindset and approach it entails, we reached out to Institute member Alfred R. Berkeley III, Chairman of the Investment Committee of Princeton Capital Management.

In truth, there are many new job type creations that are predicted to form within the metaverse and not all of them are technical. Let’s discuss some examples below.

Now, blockchain is changing what we consider to be the Internet, and Big Tech sits in its crosshairs.