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Nextech plans to launch augmented reality NFT creator program
Augmented reality company Nextech AR Solutions Inc. today announced plans to launch an AR nonfungible token creator program to let customers take advantage of the emerging new class of digital collectibles. NFTs are a type of cryptocurrency asset representing a digital item such as artwork, images, videos and in-game items. The owners of NFTs have ...
Paystand raises $50M for blockchain-enabled no-fee B2B payments
Paystand Inc., a blockchain-enabled payment network for business, today announced it has raised $50 million in a new funding led by NewView Capital. SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund, King River Capital, Industrious Ventures and Transform Capital also participated in the Series C funding round. In addition to previous rounds, this brings the company’s total funding to $85 ...
Akamai Edge DNS outage knocks out multiple major websites
A widespread internet outage briefly took down multiple major websites this morning, including those of FedEx, McDonald’s, UPS, AT&T and Airbnb. The apparent cause of the disruption was reported at about 11 a.m. EDT by Akamai Technologies Inc., an internet security and content delivery giant, which confirmed it was “aware of an emerging issue with ...
Passwordless authentication startup Magic raises $27M in funding
Magic Labs Inc., a startup that provides decentralized passwordless authentication for websites, said today that it has raised $27 million in an early-stage funding round led by Northzone. The Series A funding round brings the total raised by Magic to $31 million following a $4 million seed funding round in May 2020. It was led ...
Google Cloud rolls out Healthcare Data Engine to bring interoperability to health records
Google LLC today announced the launch of Google Cloud’s private preview of Healthcare Data Engine, an end-to-end cloud solution for healthcare and life sciences organizations aimed at enabling advanced interoperability for health records. The objective of the Healthcare Data Engine is to harmonize data from multiple sources – including medical records, claims, clinical trials and ...
OpenSea raises $100M on $1.5B valuation to scale up NFT marketplace
Digital collectible marketplace OpenSea today announced that it has raised $100 million in funding on a $1.5 billion valuation to scale up its marketplace for crypto collectibles and nonfungible tokens. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series B funding round with participation from Coatue and CAA. Other investors involved in the round included Michael Ovitz, Kevin Hartz, ...
Google Cloud: New healthcare survey shows better interoperability improves patients’ lives
Google Cloud and Harris Poll recently surveyed more than 300 physicians across the United States about their access to critical patient data to get a better picture of how doctors see technology making healthcare better through interoperability. According to Joe Corkery, M.D., director of product management, healthcare and life sciences at Google Cloud, COVID-19 made ...
Jolocom launches new GDPR-compliant blockchain identity management app SmartWallet 2.0
Jolocom GmbH, a digital application provider that uses blockchain technology for proof of identity, announced Sunday the launch of its SmartWallet 2.0 solution, a new version of its app for storing digital assets and identification that’s compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation in the European Union. To maintain compliance with the GDPR, digital identities ...
Square is making a decentralized finance platform based on bitcoin called ‘TBD’
Digital payments company Square Inc. has announced plans to launch an open-source, bitcoin-focused decentralized financial services project that will be named “TBD.” Square’s Chief Executive Jack Dorsey took to Twitter in a series of tweets late Thursday to outline the plans. He said the company would be “focused on building an open developer platform with the ...
Blockchain smart contract auditor CertiK raises $37M in funding
Blockchain security startup CertiK has raised $37 million to innovate its smart contract auditing capabilities to correct blockchain security vulnerabilities. The Series B funding round, announced Wednesday, was co-led by Coatue Management LLC and Shunwei Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures. CertiK audits distributed ledger blockchain protocols and smart contracts to provide increased security using artificial ...