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Blockchain financial services solution Humaniq raises $5M in crowd token sale
Blockchain-based financial services company Humaniq announced today that the company’s crowdfunded token sale has raised $5.2 million from 11,860 participants. This pre-seed funding round came from what is called an “Initial Coin Offering” and involved the public crowd sale of HMQ digital tokens. Humaniq uses distributed ledger technology based on the Ethereum blockchain protocol to provide ...
You can make a phone call with Acer’s new Holo 360-degree video camera
Taiwanese multinational hardware technology company Acer Inc. unveiled its new Holo 360 camera with integrated Long Term Evolution 4G capability at the company’s annual global press conference today. The Holo 360 comes equipped with two fish-eye cameras on either side for delivering 360-degree and virtual reality capable video. It will run on Android and also provides a ...
With Mediachain acquisition, Spotify looks to apply blockchain to music licensing
Popular music streaming service Spotify AB announced today that it has acquired Brooklyn-based blockchain startup Mediachain Labs. Mediachain Labs builds open-source distributed ledger solutions, also called blockchains, to provide attestation and attribution for creative works. In 2016, the company launched an open-source image attribution engine, the Mediachain Attribution Engine, designed to make searching for images ...
Google introduces next-gen Jump virtual reality camera
Technology giant Google Inc. yesterday introduced the next generation of its virtual reality Jump camera – the Yi Halo – and announced Jump Start, a program to give Jump cameras to more VR filmmakers. Google launched Jump in 2015 out of a desire to simplify VR video production and the team partners with camera manufacturers ...
Ahead of Earth Day, HTC Vive VR ‘impact’ grants will immerse viewers in space, trees and honeybees
HTC Vive, industry leader in virtual reality hardware and software from HTC Corp. and Valve Corp., today announced the first grant recipients of the VR for Impact program. The vision of the VR for Impact program is to deliver $10 million to help drive VR technologies and content to use virtual reality to create a ...
Accedo teams up with Nokia OZO to deliver better VR content
Video experience pioneer Accedo Broadband AB announced today that it is partnering with Finnish technology company Nokia Corp. to integrate the Nokia OZO Player software development kit into its virtual reality solutions and joint projects. The partnership would bring Nokia’s professional streaming app developer library for VR delivery and playback to consumers and publishers. In 2016, ...
Factom raises $8M for blockchain mortgage solution
Austin, Texas-based blockchain-as-a-service technology company Factom Inc. announced Tuesday that it has closed an extended Series A funding round for $8 million. During the initial phase of the funding round, Factom closed $5.3 million with participation from Draper Associates, Stewart Title, Overstock, Fenbushi Capital and Plug and Play. With the new round, Peeli Ventures, Harvest ...
Farewell to the Intel Developer Forum, and the primacy of the PC
In a final admission that the personal computer is no longer the center of its universe, Intel Corp. today announced the company will be discontinuing its Intel Developer Forum trade show, including the IDF17 planned for this summer. The announcement appeared on the IDF17 website this morning, replacing previous content with a thank-you to the community ...
Ukraine government inks deal with Bitfury for blockchain governance program
Blockchain technology company Bitfury Group Ltd. announced Thursday that it has joined the government of Ukraine in a deal to create the first full-scale distributed ledger e-governance program for the country. Bitfury Group Chief Executive Officer Valery Vavilov (pictured, left) signed the deal with the head of the State Agency for eGovernance of Ukraine Oleksandr Ryzhenko ...
Visbit announces open beta for high-definition VR streaming service
Virtual reality and 360-degree video streaming company Visbit Inc. announced today the launch of its streaming platform to open beta. The service, launched after a successful closed beta test in December, includes a publisher portal, VR cloud capabilities and a VR player software developer kit that will make it possible to embed streaming capability into ...