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Former Google employees form blockchain incubator and developer community
In a bid to bolster blockchain ledger technology talent, three Google LLC ex-employees announced on Sunday the formation of GBA, the xGoogler Blockchain Alliance. The community has been founded by Hitters Xu, Daniel Wang and Andy Tian, the leaders of prominent blockchain projects in China. Its purpose is to bring together current and former employees ...
Virtual reality social network startup vTime closes $7.6M funding round
The draw of virtual reality social spaces is that a person can be whisked away from any space, such as a living room or office, and become immersed in a computer-generated world. Seeking to expand such social virtual worlds, UK-based VR startup vTime Holdings Ltd. announced Wednesday the company has raised $7.6 million in a Series ...
Ripple invests $25M of its own cryptocurrency in Blockchain Capital’s $150M industry fund
The blockchain cryptocurrency business Ripple announced today that the company is investing $25 million of its own currency in the blockchain-focused venture capital firm Blockchain Capital. The contribution is the first time Ripple has invested in any fund in the blockchain industry. It will go into the Blockchain Capital Parallel IV LP fund, part of a ...
Lucidity brings transparency to advertising with blockchain network to combat fraud
The world of digital advertising is a dirty place, and advertising blockchain ledger company Lucidity wants to help clean it up. To do that, the company today announced the public launch of its marketing analytics platform based on the Ethereum blockchain. Formerly known as KR8OS Inc., Lucidity was founded in 2017 by Chief Executive Officer ...
Coinbase launches early-stage venture funding firm for cryptocurrency startups
Looking to transform the cryptocurrency ecosystem, popular bitcoin wallet and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc. announced Thursday the formation of a new early-stage financing project. Coinbase Ventures will become a way to provide funds to early-stage companies and startups in the cryptocurrency and digital ledger blockchain industry. In the beginning, Coinbase aims to help the most compelling ...
Facebook limits data use as Mark Zuckerberg vows to do more following scandals
Facebook Inc. has a data problem. With more than 2 billion monthly active users, Facebook collects a staggering amount of data on users, and following the recent scandal involving data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, the social networking giant’s practices have come under scrutiny from the media and government agencies alike. Mark Zuckerberg (pictured), chairman and chief ...
Japanese chat app giant Line forms South Korean blockchain subsidiary
Tokyo-based Line Plus Corp., a subsidiary of developer of free international calling and smartphone chat app maker Line Corp., announced Monday that it has launched its own blockchain subsidiary in South Korea called Unblock. As reported by ZDNet, Unblock is Line’s first foray into digital ledger blockchain technology act as an educational and research lab for ...
The big shift: How Atlassian moved 78,000 customers to Amazon’s cloud in a year
Back in 2010, Australian enterprise software company Atlassian Corp. Plc had the usual problem of fast-growing companies: too many customers — or rather, too many customers for its information technology systems to handle well. When Atlassian launched its first software-as-a-service offerings for its two largest products, the software issue tracker Jira and the team collaboration ...
ABI Research: Retail, automotive and marketing VR to generate $1.8B by 2022
Access to virtual reality is set to transform e-commerce in retail and marketing, according to a new report from Allied Business Intelligence Inc., resulting in a $1.8 billion market for these industries by 2022. According to the report, a number of retail situated businesses are exploring VR as a way to help sell products by using ...
Atlassian’s new Stride team communications platform now has tens of thousands of teams
Six months ago, software development and collaboration tool maker Atlassian Corp. Plc launched its team communication tool, Stride, into early access. Since then, the tool has been adopted by tens of thousands of teams who put it through its paces and to a lot of use. To celebrate, Atlassian published its findings from the past ...