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Bitcoin Weekly 2016 April 13: Storj beta added to Azure BaaS ecosystem, ShapeShift hacked, Kraken Series B investment
Looks like blockchain is continuing to get a great deal of attention this week with Intel outlining plans for its “Sawtooth Lake” distributed ledger program and Storj beta being launched on Microsoft’s Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service platform. In not-so-great news, Erik Voorhees’s ShapeShift cryptocurrency exchange service was hacked and is still offline pending an investigation into how ...
Money Partners Group fuels Bitcoin exchange Kraken with Series B investment
One of the world’s largest Bitcoin and Ethereum exchanges Kraken (Payward, Inc.) today announced raising money in its Series B funding round. The full amount of the deal was not disclosed it does include an investment from Money Partners Group, a Tokyo-based firm with a market cap of over $260 million USD (or ¥29 billion). ...
Arrayent connects developers to IoT ecosystems with the EcoAdaptor for Nest
Arrayent, Inc., developer of the Arrayent Connect platform for Internet of Things (IoT) networks, recently announced Its first commercially available rapid deployment service for IoT ecosystems called an EcoAdaptor: the EcoAdaptor for Nest. EcoAdaptors from Arrayent expand the capability for developers to connect with already-existing third-party IoT ecosystems by abstracting the behaviors and functionality in ...
Blockchain is big at NYC future technology workshop hosted by COALA
Earlier this week, over 150 experts in cryptocurrency and decentralized ledger technology, otherwise known as blockchain technology, met in New York City’s Greenwich Village to confer about the future of blockchains. Held at New York University’s Stern School of Business on April 4th and 5th, the COALA Blockchain Workshop NYC led to a number of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 March 6: Barclay’s joins UK launch of Circle, Red Hat blockchain initiative, Microsoft and R3, OpenBazaar launch
The Bitcoin world continues to keep getting more interesting when international bank Barclay’s joins up with Bitcoin mobile wallet app maker Circle for a U.K. launch of its app. And, on the other side of big bank partnerships, Microsoft joined up with the R3 consortium for access to its Azure-based Blockchain-as-a-Service product. Open source giant ...
Red Hat OpenShift Blockchain Initiative brings the blockchain to fintech enterprise and startups
Red Hat Inc., world leading open source software company, announced today the expansion of its blockchain technology solutions for startups and enterprise enabling fintech and financial services with the OpenShift Blockchain Initiative. The Initiative from Red Hat seeks to provide startups, enterprise and fintech companies with the know-how to explore blockchain, open source and cloud-based solutions using the ...
Is your DevOps mature? Find out with Automic’s assessment service
Today Automic Software GmbH announced the release of new features expanding its business automation services for application release orchestration, continuous delivery and DevOps automation. The new services also include new pipeline visualization tools, open-source community driven content, Marketplace integration, online maturity assessments and a multi-tenant cloud sandbox for prospects to try before buying. Automic Software ...
VictorOps announces DevOps mobile app enhancements to reduce team burnout
The DevOps field is still filling itself out as teams learn to work together and provide services that once took weeks and now take hours. VictorOps, Inc., an agile incident management platform focusing on collaboration, recently announced a large number of enhancements to the company’s mobile app designed to ease team friction and burnout when ...
Object Theory brings 3D work into your dining room with the HoloLens | #Build2016
Object Theory LLC. is a Microsoft HoloLens partner that is developing the first telepresence collaborative software for augmented reality (AR) Microsoft’s platform. Augmented reality collaboration allows multiple people, separated by geography, to work together as if they are in the same space by projecting avatars of the participants into the space, providing the illusion of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 March 30: CoinTrader exchange closes doors, Coinkite shutting down web wallet, MIT raises $900,000 for Bitcoin Core devs
A number of Bitcoin service closures happened this week starting with Cointrader, Canadian Bitcoin exchange, which abruptly shut down and Coinkite, Inc. which is phasing out its web wallet service to focus on other projects. MIT is helping to relieve some of the burden on Bitcoin Core development with the announcement of a fund (now ...