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Bitcoin Daily: Jet Token Seeks $10M For Crypto-Based Jet Leasing Marketplace; Tradewind Blockchain Platform Launches Stablecoin Tracking System

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In other news, Jet Token is working to raise as much as $10 million in a Regulation A for its ethereum-powered private jet leasing marketplace. Founded last year, the company competes with TurnKey Jet, which was the first crypto company that received a no-action letter from the U.S.

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Walmart’s Big eCommerce Executive Shake-Up

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Given the price tag on the Jet.com acquisition, it comes as no surprise that big changes are coming to Walmart’s eCommerce operations; firms generally don’t pay $3 billion for something and then make no changes to accommodate the purchase. Let the games begin.

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Coachella By The Numbers Looks More Like Cashella

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Here are just a few of the expenses that festivalgoers are tacking on to their weekend price tag (and who’s making money off it). Why book a regular old flight or road trip when you could be flying on a semi-private jet? Thanks to bed taxes on short-term rentals, cities get to reap the benefits of this arrangement too.

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Will Walmart Really Buy Jet.com?

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According to “sources familiar with the matter,” Walmart is in talks to buy Jet – a move that the Wall Street journal cheerfully dubbed “a disappointing end for one of the most ambitious challengers to Amazon.com Inc.” What Would Walmart Pay For Jet? Should recent reports be believed. billion in 2010.

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Walmart Beats The Street, Raises Earnings Forecast

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With its big price tag and bigger ambition, Jet.com is Walmart’s flashiest play for digital dominance during Q2, but certainly not its only one. Will things like ShippingPass, Walmart Pay and Jet’s basket building tech make Walmart.com the digital destination it wants to be?

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Waiting For iPhone X: The One Line People Don’t Seem To Mind

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Undeterred by the steep price tag, hundreds and even thousands of walk-in customers queued up outside Apple stores hours, days, and in some cases, months before the new device hit shelves. There’s nothing like a touch of tradition to go along with the thrill of innovation. Like waiting in line to be the first to get experience it.

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JetSmarter’s Play To Democratize Private Air Travel

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Still, such a steep price tag could be a big deterrent and discourage many from ever trying the service. Even if they have invested in their own private jet, people in this demographic may not always want to take their own plane, especially if they are the only one riding in it. Those people, said Petrossov, are the flight creators.