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Securitize raises $12.7M to deliver regulatory compliance for blockchain securities
Securitize Inc., a compliance platform for digital securities using blockchain technology, today announced it has raised $12.75 million in new funding. Using digital ledger blockchain technology, it’s possible to ensure secure representation of securities, such as stocks and bonds, and tokens, including digital currencies such as bitcoin. As a result, companies looking to use blockchain ...
Chinese warehouse robotics automation outfit Geek+ rolls in $150M funding
You might not have heard of the warehouse logistics robotics company Beijing Geekplus Technology Co. Ltd., but investors have: Today the Chinese company announced it has closed on a $150 million funding round. Geek+, which produces robots that assist with warehouse logistics by providing smart, integrated systems that automate work, said it’s the largest Series ...
Humans.net launches blockchain-based freelance market
Peer-to-peer freelance network Humans Net Inc. today announced the global launch of its distributed ledger blockchain system that provides an immutable reputation-based scoring system for workers to promote themselves and find employers. The maker of Humans.net claims that the current state of online search engines is highly inefficient and that data monopolies allow these providers ...
Google introduces Squoosh for Chrome to help create faster web pages
Google Chrome Labs has released an open-source web-based image editing app with a silly name, Squoosh, but a very significant purpose: It shows off how images can load faster using Google’s WebP image container format. A lot faster, in fact: WebP can typically get up to 30 percent more compression than the popular JPEG image standard, ...
Sauce Labs unveils cloud-based scalable headless browser testing solution for web DevOps
Sauce Labs Inc., maker of automated continuous testing solutions for DevOps processes, today announced a cloud-based testing solution for web development the company calls an industry first. With the unveiling of Sauce Headless, DevOps and developer teams can introduce code for testing much earlier in the development cycle. That means that component code, such as for individual ...
Scientific collaboration blockchain Orvium brings health academic publisher on board
Decentralized scientific publishing and collaboration platform Orvium OÜ announced a partnership today with leading health-science publisher Partners in Digital Health, the company behind peer-reviewed journals Blockchain in Healthcare Today and Telehealth and Medicine Today. The partnership between Orvium and Partners in Digital Health will make the Telehealth and Medicine Today journal the first journal to ...
Blockchain ballot voting to be used for first time in New Zealand party politics
The New Zealand political party, The Opportunities Party, plans to use distributed ledger blockchain technology to process a vote for the first time in the country’s history next month. Announced today, TOP intends to make use of Horizon State Pty Ltd.’s ballot box blockchain technology platform to provide secure voting for party member leadership from ...
Verses joins forces with XYO to bridge real-world locations with virtual reality
Verses, a nonprofit foundation creating standards and protocols for what’s known as the “spatial web,” announced Wednesday that the company has partnered with XYO Network, a blockchain-powered location network driven by device data. As a foundation, Verses is building what it calls the Spatial Web Protocol, a protocol-driven network of location data that makes it ...
IBM, Smart Dubai build first government-backed blockchain in the Middle East
Smart Dubai, a government initiative bringing cutting-edge technology to the city-state of Dubai, and IBM Corp. today announced the launch of the Dubai Blockchain Platform, the first government-endorsed distributed ledger technology platform-as-a-service in the United Arab Emirates. The blockchain system will be built locally in the UAE and use IBM’s enterprise-ready IBM Cloud environment to ...
DexFreight delivers its first truckload of seafood using blockchain technology
Decentralized logistics company dexFreight announced Wednesday the completion of its first blockchain assisted shipment using smart contracts to supply payment. The shipment was part of a pilot of its new platform designed to show the efficacy and capability of distributed ledger technology. It took 5,320 pounds of frozen foods from Preferred Freezer Services LLC in Medley, Florida, and delivered it ...