They are innovators in industries new and old.They are technologically astute, with ideas to burn.They are highly focused, and getting highly rich.They are the new breed of young people to watch included in Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” edition.Here are a few of our favourites:Pete Cashmore founded the popular technology news site Mashable while living at home with his parents in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, when he was 19, and remains its chief executive now that he is all of 27.These days Mr Cashmore lives the life of the media mogul, dividing his time between Scotland, San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles.He calls Mashable “the leading source of news, information and resources for the connected generation.”There has been speculation Mr Cashmore would sell Mashable for up to $200m but he remains at the helm.@mashable is one of the most-followed Twitter accounts in the world, with more than 3.7million followers.BusinessWeek has featured his site as one of the world’s most profitable blogs.Mr Cashmore says his passion for sharing “how web tools and social net- works were transforming human interactions and reshaping cultures” drove him to create Mashable.He told a Boston radio station: “More communication is better… the more we interact not only do we become more tolerant of new ideas and different ways of thinking, we also create more new  ideas, because what are ideas if they’re not collisions between people of different backgrounds.”Jessica Matthews (pictured blow) is co-founder of Uncharted Play, a “social enterprise” company she formed with a Harvard classmate that worked out how to create power by kick- ing around a football – they made an “energy-harnessing soccer ball.”“If ever there was an innovator, she’s it,” the former President Bill Clinton said.

President Barack Obama has actually played football with the ball.The company created the “soccket” ball with a battery inside so that 30 minutes of play means the ball absorbs kinetic energy to charge the battery enough to then provide several hours of light.The invention could help millions of people in parts of the world without electricity who depend on kerosene lamps.Future inventions may include electricity-generating skipping rope, skateboard and American football.The 28-year old Lucy Baldwin (pictured below) is a managing director at Goldman Sachs in London where she heads up the investment bank’s European retail and consumer equity research team.Ms Baldwin is known for her knowledge of the near-$300bn global luxury goods industry.bitcoin leedsShe started as a mergers and acquisitions analyst but switched to equity research because she saw a big opportunity.She told a London conference in 2012 she was impressed by how quickly young analysts in this field were allowed to have contact with executives of the companies they covered.bitcoin mining linux ubuntu

Smart move.Ms Baldwin is at the forefront of the charge by women into leading jobs in finance and believes companies benefit from such a policy.As she told The Gateway website: financial companies are not promoting equality for its own sake – it actually helps the bottom line.“If you look at a group of listed companies, those with a diverse workforce perform better.” AJ Forsythe, 25, started up iCracked to repair – or buy – mobile Apple devices including the iPhone and iPad – and now the firm is hoping to make about $10m in sales this year.iCracked has a network of engineers (called “iTechs”) in 11 countries who can quickly fix phones and other Apple devices.Mr Forsythe has said he plans to have an iCracked presence in every city in the world within the next two years.“Think of our iTechs as personal, elite repair specialists that come to you, wherever you are at the click of a button,” he says.Amir Taaki, 25, is the British-Iranian co-founder of Dark Wallet, a service that wants to be “The Anarchist’s Bitcoin App Of Choice.”The folks behind Dark Wallet think the community that has evolved around Bitcoin, the digital currency, has become a bit too friendly with the Establishment around the world.Dark Wallet says it allows Bitcoin users to spend and receive the currency just like other services but that unlike some “wallets” it is designed to preserve the status of Bitcoin as an anonymous, hard-to-trace currency.“Many prominent Bitcoin developers are actively in collusion with members of law enforcement and seeking approval from government legislators,” says Dark Wallet on its site.We believe this is not in Bitcoin user’s self interest, and instead serves wealthy business interests that make up the self-titled Bitcoin Foundation...“We don’t need to cooperate with control freaks.bitcoin graphics card hash rates

Disobedience is the only way.”Companies PayStand launches mobile POS app for credit card, check, bitcoin March 26, 2015 Companies, Featured, Santa Cruz Tech Ecosystem Share This:By Erica Zeidenberg PayStand March 26, 2015 — Scotts Valley, CA Last year PayStand introduced payments-as-a-service approach to offer a payments gateway for Bitcoin, eCheck and credit card.bitcoin skrill exchangeNow it’s bringing that solution for online businesses to brick and mortar retailers and service providers on the go.bitcoin cpu miner linuxPayStand, a next-generation payment platform, today announced the release of their mobile app in the Apple App Store, making it the first all-in-one mPOS (mobile point of sale) solution in the US to enable credit card, check and Bitcoin payments.ethereum launch date

Merchants on the PayStand platform can now accept payments on their iPhones at brick-and-mortar locations and out in the field, giving them significantly lower transaction rates than existing POS systems.The PayStand mobile app is a being offered as an extension of its innovative Payments-as-a-Service platform to provide flexible online checkout and payments for a flat monthly subscription instead of a complex fee structure.“Mobile credit card payments are proliferating at the point of sale, but the fees involved have gotten too expensive for merchants,” says PayStand founder and CEO Jeremy Almond.“Why should credit card processors take such a big cut off the top of a business’ revenues?By offering alternative payment options like check capture and Bitcoin which are zero-percent, we’re taking a big step toward our goal of eliminating merchant transaction fees.” Free card reader and photo check capture The PayStand mobile app enables credit card payments via a card reader that fits in the audio jack of the iPhone.

Merchants can swipe customers’ Visa, Mastercard or American Express cards, or offer one of the app’s alternative payment methods.To process a check payment, the merchant simply takes a photo of the paper check, directly debiting the consumer’s bank account without any trips to the bank.To accept Bitcoin, the app displays a unique QR code which the consumer scans to pay with the funds routed to the merchant’s Bitcoin wallet.“With our mobile app, PayStand is bringing the same ease-of-use, flexibility and cost-savings to retailers at the point of sale as we provide for online merchants,” said Almond.“We’re giving merchants a single dashboard for managing all their payments, and a path to zero transaction fees.” Lower fees through community and choice PayStand launched almost a year ago with a Payments-as-a-Service business model which for a flat monthly subscription gives merchants all the tools they need to accept credit cards, eChecks and Bitcoin directly on their websites and social media pages.

Unlike other payment processors, PayStand does not mark up transaction fees, but rather aims to give subscribers the lowest possible credit card rates and alternative zero-percent payment options.As the PayStand subscriber base grows, the company is negotiating progressively lower credit card rates which are automatically passed on to customers in a process they call “rate sourcing.” PayStand has lowered its credit card rate (currently at 2.49% for Visa/MC/AmEx) four times in the past twelve months, and is planning another drop in Q2 2015.“We leverage the power of community to drive down costs for our merchants,” says Almond.“In the past it’s been the big banks and credit card processors who have dictated fees, but by empowering merchants to join together, we’re starting to turn the tables on the old system.” The free app is currently available on the App Store and the PayStand card reader is shipped on request.Merchants must first create a PayStand account on their website to accept payments with the app.