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Blockchain investment is booming thanks largely to initial coin offering binge
Initial coin offerings are becoming the funding mechanism of choice for the fast-emerging distributed ledger technology known as blockchain, bolting past corporate and venture investors — but also raising the specter of a bubble and potential mismanagement by startups suddenly flush with a huge amount of funding. Those are some of the key findings from a ...
JP Morgan Chase upgrades its Quorum blockchain with security from Zerocoin
The Zerocoin Electric Coin Co. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. today announced the initial release of a zero-knowledge security layer for J.P. Morgan’s enterprise blockchain and smart contract platform Quorum. Quorum is a distributed ledger technology, or blockchain, developed by J.P. Morgan that’s based on the Ethereum blockchain to facilitate transactions for the financial technology ...
Tour guides come to virtual reality with InstaVR’s ‘guided co-viewing’
The virtual reality authoring, publishing and analysis company InstaVR Inc. today announced an update to its product that lets publishers guide VR content in real-time and let participants “co-view” it. This change enhances the platform so that participants can view content at the same time and adds the ability for a single administrator to effect ...
Blockchain storage is coming to enterprise documentation with Storj-CapLinked deal
Blockchain technology is coming to enterprise document storage thanks to a deal announced Wednesday by decentralized-storage company Storj Labs Inc. and secure document sharing service provider CapLinked Inc. With distributed ledger or blockchain technology, it’s possible to build storage that does not rely on centralized databases and management. This is the paradigm behind Storj Labs, ...
Blockchain melds with professional reputation networks with SpringRole launch
Startup incubator Science Inc. announced today the launch of California-based SpringRole Inc., which will govern the first professional reputation network using artificial intelligence and the distributed ledger technology known as blockchain. Blockchains are widely distributed databases that use cryptography and specialized algorithms to secure the records of ongoing transactions and make historical data tamperproof. As ...
With new UK design studio, Leap Motion explores the boundaries of augmented reality
Mixed-reality sensor and peripherals maker Leap Motion Inc. signaled its intention to expand its efforts in the virtual and augmented reality industry with the announcement today of a London-based design research studio. A spokesperson for the company added that the new London office would be led by visionary AR/VR filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda, who will also ...
In the end of an internet era, AOL’s pioneering Instant Messenger will go offline Dec. 15
One of the internet’s first instant messaging services will go dark in two months when AOL Instant Messenger goes offline. Oath Inc., a subsidiary of Verizon Communications that now owns the AOL brand, officially announced this morning that AIM will shut down Dec. 15. America Online Inc. is best known as one of the very ...
Google teams up with Discovery for 38-episode virtual reality travel series
Discovery Communications Inc. and Google LLC have teamed up to use the magic of immersive virtual reality technology to bring more people to places they have never been before through a 38-episode travel documentary. The series, announced Wednesday by the Discovery VR and Google VR team, will launch on Friday, Nov. 3, exclusively on YouTube ...
Four new big banks join IBM, UBS to build Batavia blockchain and streamline trade finance
Computing giant IBM Corp. yet again expanded its reach into finance blockchain technology today with the announcement that the company’s trade finance platform collaboration with UBS AG has been joined by Bank of Montreal, CaixaBank S.A., Commerzbank AG and Erste Group Bank AG. With the use of distributed ledger technology, the platform, named Batavia, is designed ...
Dragonchain, creator of blockchain developed at Disney, launches initial coin offering
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of its software going open-source, Dragonchain Inc., a blockchain platform originally developed at the Walt Disney Co., today announced its initial coin offering. According to Dragonchain, the coin offering will involve a crowdsale of currency tokens, called “Dragons,” running from Oct. 2 to Nov. 2. The tokens sold in the ...