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South Korean FSC Approves ICONLOOP’s Blockchain based Digital Identity Service – my-ID

26.6.2019
South Korean government’s top budgetary controller, FSC (The Financial Services Commission), has reported the incorporation of ICONLOOP’s ‘my-ID’ administration into the ‘Innovative Financial services and Regulations Sandbox’ which was created under the special...

Bahrain Beats Silicon Valley And London In Race of Female Startup Creators

26.6.2019
Over the years, venture capitalist money and investment has created a worldwide startup culture that has seen talented and innovative individuals going on their own with their ideas. However, it had also been a well-known fact for many years that only a handful of startup founders happened to...

Microsoft Tablet For Both Windows And Android To Be Launched Next Year

26.6.2019
Throughout the course of the first decade of the new millennium, tech giant Microsoft generally lagged behind its peers and lost a lot of ground in the process. However, the transformation of the company over the course of the last half a decade or so has been nothing short of staggering. It...

Quantum Dot iPhone Camera Contract With Nanoco Cancelled By Apple

26.6.2019
For most companies, which are involved in supplying items to other companies, landing a supply contract with one of the world’s largest corporations is a significant deal. The inking of such a contract elevates the stature of a company and in addition to that, it helps in drawing new clients with...

Sygnia Cuts Try with Consulting Giant Deloitte Over Reputational Issues

26.6.2019
The biggest consultancy firms in the world are now going through a lot of turmoil for having been mixed up in unsavory episodes over the past few years, and that is no different when it comes to their operations in South Africa. One of the biggest scandals to have hit South Africa in recent years...

Fintech Banks All Set To Be Scrutinised Heavily By Relevant Regulators

26.6.2019
Over the past half a decade or so, Fintech has possibly been the most important development in the world of finances and now it is a multibillion-dollar industry has the potential of upending the way in which people use money. Fintech may have started off as a way of developing more advanced...

Kraken Raises Over $13 Million In Its Latest Fundraising Round

25.6.2019
Crypto exchange Kraken has raised $13.5 million from 2264 investors in its latest fundraising round

Celgene Deal Setback Wipes Out $6 Billion From Bristol-Myers Squibb

25.6.2019
When it comes to the biggest acquisitions that are valued at tens of billions of dollars, there is almost always a bit of trouble in completing the whole thing. First of all, there is the matter of the two company’s shareholders who might or might not want the deal to happen, while on the other...

Amazon Patents Drone Surveillance; Will Enable To Have Eyes In The Sky

25.6.2019
Amazon has pretty much taken over the e-commerce industry over the last two decades or so. The company, which started as an online book shop, now sells a plethora of products and is rightly known as ‘the everything store.’ However, it is also important to note that Amazon is not so dominant due...

$1 Million Raised by Streak AI Technologies in Latest Funding Round

25.6.2019
India has become one of the more important hotbeds of tech-based startups in Asia and a large variety of startups have been established in the past few years. Many of them have gone on to become highly successful companies and many more are now coming up through the ranks. One of those is Streak...

Local Chinese Startups Leave IBM And Oracle In The Dust

25.6.2019
The trade war between the United States and China is expected to continue for the foreseeable future and it has had far-reaching effects across a range of industries so far. One of the most interesting developments in that regard is the way in which local Chinese tech startups have now managed...

Smaller Rival Altran Merges with Capgemini in 3.6 Billion Euros Deal

25.6.2019
When it comes to the biggest companies in the world of consulting and technology, the idea of acquisition in order to keep growing is a well-known strategy and that has been even more prevalent in recent years. In a new development, French consultancy and information technology giant Capgemini...

Facebook Fails To Avoid Lawsuit Over Data Breach That Endangered 29 Million Users

24.6.2019
The past few years have been a bit of a nightmare for social media behemoth Facebook. The company found itself lurching from one user privacy issue to another and in September last year, Facebook revealed that in one of the worst hacking attacks in its history, as many as 29 million users’ data...

Coca Cola And China’s Mengniu Dairy Sign Olympics Sponsorship Deal Worth $3 Billion

24.6.2019
While the trade war between the United States and China is going on at full tilt for months, two of the biggest corporations from the two countries have come together to sign a gargantuan sponsorship deal for the Olympics. The sponsorship deal signed by soft drinks maker Coca Cola and Chinese dairy...

FedEx Apologises After It Returned Huawei Phone Package And Draws Chinese Criticism

24.6.2019
The trade war between the United States and China has been one of the most damaging and problematic global issues of recent times, and currently, there is no end in sight to the skirmish. However, the crackdown of the United States authorities on Chinese tech giant Huawei and the eventual...

Amazon Alexa Would Soon be Able to Identify a Heart Attack and Save Lives

24.6.2019
Heart attacks are one of the biggest reasons behind deaths all over the world, but Amazon’s Alexa is going to introduce a service that could preempt heart attacks. Heart failures are one of the biggest reasons behind death all across the world, and the failures that happen outside hospitals...

Singapore Based Razer Ties Up With Visa To Create A Visa Prepaid Card

24.6.2019
The world of tech and finance have been intertwined for most of the past two decades, as the advances in technology have helped the financial system become far more efficient. Nowadays, tech companies are routinely getting into tie ups with financial giants in order to create new products and make...