Search
Singapore’s Investment Firm Marvelstone Group Stays Silent About Its Progress
13.5.2019
Singapore has been a thriving financial hub for decades now and needless to say, the country has seen the establishment of a fair share of investment funds in the process as well. One of those is ‘Marvelstone Group’ which is purportedly involved in investment in the financial technology space...
Slowly But Surely: May Was a Quietly Big Month for Blockchain
13.5.2019
Don Tapscott writes that 10 events, in particular, demonstrate just how much innovation we’ve seen during May, the "Month of Blockchain."
Codename ‘TRUEngine:’ GE Aviation and Microsoft Reveal Aircraft Parts Certification Blockchain
12.5.2019
Millions of dollars worth of airplane parts are unusable. GE Aviation's new blockchain tech aims to fix that
Blockchain’s Adoption Challenge Is a Human Problem, Not Technical
12.5.2019
The “blockchain” concept has the potential to be extremely powerful, but only if society is willing to change direction and purpose, argues Maja Vujinovic
Moving Beyond ‘The Blockchain Is the App’
11.5.2019
Blockchains are useless on their own. For decentralized computing to work, they must intersect with other solutions. writes Intel's Mic Bowman
Munich Re Insures Curv’s Crypto Wallet To the Tune of $50 Million
10.5.2019
Crypto wallet firm Curv has obtained up to $50 million of insurance coverage for institutional customers from Munich Re
William Shatner Joins Effort to Fight Collectibles Fraud With Blockchain ‘Passports’
10.5.2019
Star Trek acting legend and producer William Shatner has joined an initiative to tackle fake memorabilia and collectibles using blockchain tech
Ex-SoFI CEO’s Startup Closes $1 Billion Credit Line on a Blockchain
10.5.2019
Figure Technologies, founded by former SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, has closed a $1 billion “uncommitted” line of credit on a blockchain
Crypto Wallet Abra Adds In-App Support for ‘Thousands’ of US Banks
10.5.2019
Crypto wallet Abra now let users connect to “thousands” of U.S. banks. It's also added withdrawals for all 30 supported cryptos
A New Crypto ETF Has Just Been Filed With the U.S. SEC
10.5.2019
A prospectus for a new bitcoin and ether-based exchange-traded fund has just been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Why Cryptocurrency Investors Are Renouncing Their US Citizenship
9.5.2019
Andrew Henderson is the founder of Nomad Capitalist, a company which helps people from around the world move to different countries while minimizing their tax obligations. In recent years the company has created plans for dozens of people who made their wealth from the cryptocurrency sector...
Florincoin – The 2013 Altcoin You Don’t Remember – Is Attracting Real Users
9.5.2019
An obscure cryptocurrency that first started getting noticed during the 2014 altcoin boom is showing itself a true diamond in the rough
Crypto Crime Blotter: Scammers Dupe Jersey Island Man Out of £1.2 million, Backpage Laundered Cash With Crypto
6.5.2019
Did Backpage launder cash through crypto? What happened to three Germans on the DarkWeb? This week's Crypto Crime Blotter
Currently Reading: Progressive Web Apps by Jason Grisby
3.5.2019
I’ve been reading Jason Grigsby’s new book on progressive web apps this past week and it’s exciting. Jason explains what PWAs are and how they work while while doing a bang-up job covering the business case for using them them, too. But perhaps you might be thinking that a PWA isn’t necessary...
A Website is a Car and Not a Book
15.4.2019
I’ve been wondering for a good long while why it feels like web design and development isn’t respected as much as native app development= and why the front-end role in many organizations is seen as a nice-to-have rather than a vital part of the business. Why is it so hard to see that this gig...
Decaying Sites
4.4.2019
Websites have a tendency to decay all by themselves. Link rot, they call it. Unpaid domain name registrations. Companies that have gone out of business. Site owners that have lost interest. What's sadder than a 404? Landing on a holding page of a URL that used to exist, but now has fallen into...
Data, (ne)webová analytika i business intelligence pod drobnohledem: Blíží se konference Data Restart
4.4.2019
Celodenní konference o datech a analytice proběhne 8. dubna v Divadle pod Palmovkou. Nabídne celkem jedenáct přednášek nejen pro analytiky, ale i pro markeťáky, provozovatele webů a e-shopů, nebo třeba agenturní a freelance konzultanty. Program konference s pečlivostí analytikům vlastní připravuje...
Technical Debt is Like Tetris
21.3.2019
Here’s a wonderful post by Eric Higgins all about refactoring and technical debt. He compares giant refactoring projects to being similar to Tetris:
Similar to running a business, Tetris gets harder the longer you play. Pieces move faster and it becomes harder to keep up.
Similar to running...
Program Surface for Business se rozšiřuje po Evropě. Nechybí ani Česká republika
13.3.2019
Surface for Business je speciální program Microsoftu, který nabízí firmám vlastní řadu Surface za speciálních podmínek. Skrze něj se snaží dostat do škol a podniků a lokalizovaná verze tohoto programu nyní zamíří i do Česka. Firmy tak budou možnost zakoupit si hardware přímo od Microsoftu.
V
SEC’s Assessment Concludes that Ethereum is not a Security, IBM Joins Crypto Custody Business
13.3.2019
U.S. Securities and Commission Exchange (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton has written a letter to U.S. Rep. Ted Budd in which he agrees with Division of Corporate Finance Director Bill Hinman evaluation that Ethereum, the second largest digital asset by market […]
The post SEC’s Assessment Concludes...