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Gaining Mass Adoption: Blockchain Platform Converts Users Fame Into Coffee and Clothes
17.5.2019
A decentralized platform that rewards content creators on social networks says it allows influencers to convert their fame into concert tickets, clothes and crypto #SPONSORED
Cornell Uni’s Emin Gun Sirer Debuts Ava Blockchain Following $6 Million Investment
17.5.2019
Emin Gun Sirer, a professor at Cornell University a major global blockchain expert, has started private testing of his own Ava blockchain before issuing his own crypto
Japan’s Topix May Increase By 15% In 2020: Morgan Stanley
17.5.2019
Morgan Stanley, a leading investment bank, is expecting the Japanese Topix to increase by close to 15% by mid of 2020. As per a report published last week, it says that the Japanese stocks are the opposite of American stocks. While the American stocks are loved, the Japanese stocks are ‘oversold...
Jet Powered 5-Seater Self Flying Aircraft Unveiled
17.5.2019
A startup company from Germany has revealed an all-electric self-flying 5 seater prototype of an air taxi. The German-based company, Lilium on Thursday announced that this taxi had made its first test flight successfully earlier this month. The aircraft took off, ran around and landed....
Brazil’s Soybean Farmers: the Big Winners of US-China Trade War
17.5.2019
The trade war between the United States and Chine has comfortably been the most significant development as far as global trade is concerned, and even after months of talks between the two nations, no resolution is yet at sight. In fact, the tensions have escalated after the two countries resumed...
American Consumers Feel The Heat Of Trade War, Walmart Raises Prices
17.5.2019
Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Chinese products attracted a retaliatory tariff hike by China on American products. The latest victim of this trade war is the average American consumer as Walmart in a statement said that it would increase prices on the items that are imported from China....
Top Tesla Investor T Rowe Sells 81% of Shares, Others Follow
17.5.2019
Tesla, the electric car maker’s top investor T Rowe Price Associates sold close to 81% of its stakes in the first quarter of the year making a quick retreat from the company it had invested for long. T Rowe had 1.7 million Tesla shares on Mar 31, and it once held 8.9 million shares in …
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Ontology Research Institute Releases Thesis on Multichain Design
17.5.2019
Ontology’s Network is a multi-blockchain protocol and systems Network, which supports all business types of application. The flexible design structure is modularized, plugged, and easily expandable to meet the requirements of different industries. Blockchain technology applies to all types...
Sports Blockchain Venture Chiliz Announces Strategic Partnership With Binance Chain
17.5.2019
Sports fan engagement blockchain project Chiliz has announced a strategic partnership with Binance Chain, the mainnet of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance
Binance Launchpad Has Added Harmony (ONE)
17.5.2019
The Binance exchange recently announced that Harmony (ONE) has been added to the Binance Launchpad. Harmony is a sharding-based, fully scalable, proved safe, and energy-efficient blockchain for the next generation. By combining the best research results and engineering practice in an optimally...
Coin Metrics Report Highlights Discrepancies in Ripple’s Escrow System Reporting
17.5.2019
Blockchain analysis company Coin Metrics has found discrepancies in blockchain payments network Ripple’s escrow system reporting
Data: Just 2/3 of ETH Nodes Running Parity Have Been Patched Against Critical Security Flaw
17.5.2019
Hacking research collective SRLabs claims that only two thirds of the Ethereum client software that runs on Ethereum nodes has been patched against a critical security flaw
Report: Top Banks Alleged to Be Investing $50 Million in Digital Cash Settlement Project
17.5.2019
Some of the world’s leading banks are allegedly currently investing around $50 million to build a blockchain-based digital cash system for transaction settlement, sources claim
Amazon Patent Casts Light on Plans to Create Proof-of-Work Blockchain Analog
17.5.2019
Amazon could be on the road to creating some form of cryptocurrency system with latest patent award
OKEx is Giving Away Free USDT, Will it Attract Indian Traders?
17.5.2019
We can’t ignore how potential-laden the recent announcement by OKEx about giving away free USDT is. But if we look at the Indian government’s view about crypto trading and the strict regulation around it, OKEx’s attempt appears to be a wild bet. It can either go very wrong, or it can flip...
Microsoft Partnership and Buyback Announcements Send Sony Shares Soaring to New Highs
17.5.2019
When it comes to large corporations like Sony, a lot of effort needs to be made in order to send its shares soaring, and that is what happened yesterday as the company made some major announcement. While stock buybacks have been the flavor of the season for many of the biggest corporations in...
Chinese Giant Baidu Records First Quarterly Net Loss Since Listing, Stock Dips
17.5.2019
The fact that Google and many other tech giants are not allowed to ply their trade in China has proven to be a huge book for local tech companies, and over the years, many of those homegrown companies have gone on to become behemoths in their own right. The primary reason behind that hyper-growth...
Amazon Conducts $575 Million Funding Round in UK Food Delivery Firm Deliveroo
17.5.2019
In an increasingly connected world that has been ushered in by a range of tech companies over the past decade and a half, food delivery has become one of the most important industries all over the world and in that regard; the United Kingdom is no different. The country’s most popular food delivery...
European Union Fines 5 Top Banks 1 Billion Euros for Foreign Exchange Market Rigging
17.5.2019
Over the course of their history, some of the biggest banks in the world have often colluded to rig the different markets in which they operate, and much of that has come out in the open over the past decade or so. The fixing of LIBOR was a case in point, and in a new …
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Bosch on Blockchain and IoT: ‘We Cannot Accept’ Fear as Reaction to Innovation
17.5.2019
Bosch has revealed its ideological view on technologies such as blockchain and IoT, stating that it needs to keep mistrust out of the reaction to new tech