Weekend FinTech Reading, April 5 – 6, 2014

The latest fintech news and innovations for your reading enjoyment.

IEX Group CEO Brad Katsuyama and Author Michael Lewis Discuss High-Speed Trading

Michael Lewis, author of “Flash Boys,” speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Lewis and Brad Katsuyama, chief executive officer of IEX Group Inc., discussed high-frequency trading and the structure of the U.S. equity market. Photographer: Chris Goodney/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Michael Lewis

Chris Goodney/Bloomberg

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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