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Apple’s Claris returns as FileMaker rebrands and acquires cloud startup Stamplay
FileMaker Inc., the Apple Inc. subsidiary that offer a Workplace Innovation Platform, announced today at the annual DevCon 2019 developer conference that the company is rebranding itself as Claris International Inc., returning to a classic brand for the company’s software products. “Claris stems from the Latin root ‘clarus,’ which means ‘clear, bright and shining,’” said ...
Paystand launches blockchain-as-a-service Assurety for enterprise apps at scale
Blockchain-based business-to-business payments company Paystand Inc. announced today the launch of its enterprise platform Assurety-as-a-Service, designed to allow any business to deploy its own distributed ledger network in minutes at large scale. Using the company’s application programming interface, enterprise businesses can create digitally notarized record trails that are secure, certified and fully auditable by third ...
Blockchain (the company) launches ultrafast cryptocurrency exchange
The popular cryptocurrency wallet Blockchain Luxembourg S.A. today announced the launch of a new, ultrafast cryptocurrency exchange called The Pit. Blockchain is credited with creating one of the first block explorers, a tool that allows users to visualize transactions on a distributed ledger, and in this case the bitcoin blockchain. The company also created an easy-to-integrate ...
Amazon Prime releases streaming VR shows and movies for Oculus headsets
Technology giant Amazon.com Inc. announced Wednesday that the company’s paid subscription service for streaming media, Amazon Prime, will now offer virtual reality shows and movies for Oculus headsets. The new service, named Prime Video VR, offers everything in the Amazon Prime library for display in a private virtual setting, including ordinary 2-D TV shows and ...
Second State pulls in $3M to build business-centric smart contract blockchain
Austin-based enterprise blockchain company Second State LLC announced today that it has raised $3 million in an early-stage funding round. Second State provides a tool that allows developers to rapidly create blockchain distributed ledger applications that take advantage of the decentralized nature of the technology. To do that, Second State gives developers a web-based integrated ...
DevOps platform CircleCI raises $56M to automate software deployment
Software deployment and integration platform for DevOps Circle Internet Services Inc. today announced the closure of a late-stage $56 million funding round. The Series D round was led by Owl Rock Capital Partners and Next Equity. Founded in 2011, CircleCI uses intelligent automation and delivery tools to give enterprise DevOps teams an advantage when it ...
Time unveils augmented and virtual reality app showcasing immersive 3-D journalism
In a move that will bring news readers into the stories that most interest them, magazine publisher Time Inc. announced Thursday the launch of its mixed-reality app Time Immersive, which will showcase immersive 3-D journalism. The app, available for both Android and iOS, will bring new augmented and virtual reality projects from Time to the ...
Horizon Blockchain Games raises $3.75M in seed funding for virtual trading cards
Horizon Blockchain Games Inc., video game studio and blockchain distributed ledger infrastructure company, announced today a seed round of $3.75 million led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture fund. This seed funding follows a global trend of blockchain technology being sought by companies to create secure digital assets that mimic real-life physical items. In this ...
R3 launches blockchain developer toolkit for business tokens on Corda
Enterprise blockchain infrastructure provider R3CEV LLC announced Monday the launch of a software development kit that will allow businesses to roll out tokens on its distributed ledger technology platform Corda. According to the company, the 1.0 version of its SDK will provide business developers what they need to roll out secure tokens that can be used ...
Microsoft brings Minecraft into the real world with beta signups for AR game
Microsoft Corp. announced today that the company is opening up closed beta signups to the general public for Minecraft Earth, an augmented reality game developed by the software giant that brings the tree-punching, block-placing game into the real world. Minecraft quickly became extremely popular after its initial launch in 2011 because of its simple but imaginative approach ...