It’s the weekend, which means it’s time to catch up on recent fintech news and reading:
- Flash Boy: Michael Lewis is on a mission to expose the seedy underbelly of high frequency trading (New York Times)
- Botox & Bytes: The Brutal Ageism of Silicon Valley (New Republic)
- Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem: In start-up land, the young barely talk to the old. That makes for a lot of cool apps. But great technology? Not so much. (New York Times Magazine)
- Google Unveils Software for Smartwatches-to-Be. (New York Times)
- Frontiers in Hedge Fund Moneyball (Big Data, Sports and Finance) stop: How the use of statistical analysis forever changed college basketball. (New York Times)
- Google’s Bold Plan to Overthrow Amazon as King of the Cloud. (WIRED)
- Bitcoin firms explore U.S. rules for derivative exchanges. (Reuters)
- Bill Gates Predicts a Robot Takeover (Business Insider)
- Carl Icahn changes course in fight for PayPal independence, proposes 20% IPO plan. (VentureBeat)
- Too Much Information: Are we misusing Big Data? (Financial Times)
- FinTech start-up Thinknum looks to democratize valuation models on Wall Street. (Tech Crunch)
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