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Mary Meeker’s big internet trends report is out: smartphones down, AI and China up
Mary Meeker, the venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and famed former Wall Street securities analyst, today revealed her highly anticipated internet trends report for 2018. The presentation slides were showed to the crowd at Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, and contain a lot of interesting analysis of where the world is ...
Identity verification company TheKey looks to blockchain to reduce costs
Beijing-based decentralized distributed ledger blockchain developer TheKey BDMI International Foundation Ltd. announced Monday that the company has produced two test applications based on its system that will provide identity verification services for sensitive industries. The two test applications, designed for check verification and cashing, will be used as a foundation for building out the company’s ...
US Justice Department opens criminal probe into bitcoin price manipulation
The United States Department of Justice opened a criminal probe today looking into the possibility that traders have been manipulating the price of bitcoin, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, and other cryptographic token currencies. According to a report from Bloomberg, the investigation will proceed in coordination with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a financial regulator ...
BDO USA, Intel and Microsoft join with IntraEdge to develop GDPR-compliant blockchain
BDO USA LLP and IntraEdge Inc. announced today the launch of a distributed ledger blockchain solution called GDPR Edge, designed to be compliant with the imminent General Data Protection Regulation guidelines deadline in the European Union. Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. joined BDO and IntraEdge as partners to provide technology to support the launch of GDPR ...
Virtual reality headphones startup Ossic closes after four years and $3.2M in crowdfunding
Virtual reality 3-D headphones startup Ossic closed its doors Saturday in spite of raising almost $3.2 million from crowdfunding. After four years of working to develop its product, the company announced that it was unable to keep up with production costs and posted an apology statement on its Kickstarter blog and website. The company behind the ...
Atonomi Network beta launch brings blockchain security to the ‘internet of things’
Seattle-based Atonomi LLC, a unit of “internet of things” security provider Centri Technology Inc., today announced the beta launch of a secure blockchain ledger-based protocol designed for governing IoT device registration, activation, validation and reputation. Security and trust are central to communication within IoT networks, which depend on the ability to interconnect with thousands or millions ...
Amazon Sumerian general release brings VR experiences to life
The creation of virtual reality, augmented reality and 3-D projects just got easier with Amazon Sumerian, a web-based editor for people without sophisticated graphics training that Amazon Web Services Inc. today made generally available. AWS announced Sumerian at its re:Invent conference in November as an upcoming tool for graphics designers and developers to produce professional quality VR, AR and 3-D content ...
Winklevoss bitcoin exchange Gemini now authorized for private cryptocurrency Zcash
The New York Department of Financial Services today announced that it has authorized the Gemini Trust Co. LLC bitcoin exchange, famously founded by entrepreneurs Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, to trade in the cryptocurrency Zcash. This authorization makes Gemini the first regulated exchange in the world to accept the currency. The exchange will also be adding Bitcoin ...
Google’s new Tour Creator tool lets anyone share their world in VR
Google Inc. has revealed its new virtual reality tool Tour Creator, a platform for students to create and share VR tours using 360-degree photos or Street View content to immerse viewers in both familiar and faraway places. The VR creation tool, announced and demonstrated by the company Wednesday during its annual I/O developer conference, combines 360-degree photos ...
Exchange of Exchanges financial blockchain raises $10M from Lion Financial
Switzerland-based EOE Foundation Ltd., an all-in-one “Exchange of Exchanges” blockchain global asset ledger, announced today that the company has raised $10 million led by Lion Financial Group. With this funding round, EOE also announced that it is ready to begin the first phase of the launch of its platform and establish a membership system and ...