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Atlassian powers up collaboration suite productivity with Trello integration
Cloud-based workplace collaboration software provider Atlassian Corporation Plc announced today that a huge suite of its products will be getting a boost from Trello Inc., the maker of a powerful visual product management productivity dashboard that Atlassian bought in January. Trello’s “Power-Ups,” or add-ons, will be integrated into Atlassian’s entire digital collaboration ecosystem, including Jira, Confluence, ...
BestSign and BitFury Group to protect electronic documents with blockchain
The BitFury Group, a world leading blockchain service provider, has announced a partnership with Chinese electronic document company BestSign. With this agreement, BitFury plans to bring its expertise in distributed cryptographic ledger technology, also called blockchain technology, to power BestSign’s electronic document signing platform. A blockchain can be used to provide auditable, time-stamped verification that ...
British telecom company Openreach turns to virtual reality to recruit field engineers
Showing that virtual reality isn’t just about fun and games, digital infrastructure operator Openreach, subsidiary of United Kingdom-based telecommunications industry services company BT Group plc, announced its intent to show new recruits what it’s like to conduct repairs using immersive 3D. In a large expansion push, the company expects to hire 1,500 trainees in a ...
Illinois watchdog becomes first US state regulator to join blockchain consortium
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has become the first U.S. state-level financial regulatory body to join the R3CEV LLC blockchain consortium. The consortium represents a number of large banks working together to develop financial technology based on the globally distributed ledger system called the blockchain, which can be used to record and ...
GitLab gets more social, buying open source developer community Gitter
Open-source development lifecycle tool provider GitLab B.V. on Wednesday announced its acquisition of Gitter, a community hub platform for open-source developers. GitLab also announced that it will release Gitter’s code as open-source software. This includes the web application and mobile apps. Such a move will allow the developer community at large to create and deploy Gitter ...
Now hear this: Dirac Research grabs $4.8M to boost audio in virtual reality
Sweden-based Dirac Research AB, a leader in sound enhancement technology, on Tuesday announced a $4.8 million investment to develop the next generation of augmented and virtual reality audio technology. The first thing that comes to mind when most people encounter virtual reality is how the experience is going to look: the 360-degree video experience and ...
Alibaba leads $18M investment in car navigation augmented reality outfit WayRay
Switzerland-based augmented reality navigation startup WayRay SA today announced it has closed a $18 million funding round led by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Along with the Series B funding news, WayRay also announced a partnership with Alibaba-funded connected car startup Banma Technologies Co. Ltd. to develop new AR car navigation and infotainment systems. ...
Blockstack’s decentralized app platform comes to Amazon Web Services
New York-based Blockstack Inc. Thursday announced the release of its blockchain app infrastructure on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace and its fastsync technology that brings nodes, or self-contained virtual servers that secure transactions, to life faster than ever before. This will allow developers using Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud service to rapidly spin up nodes that use Blockstack’s infrastructure ...
Google beefs up Firebase to bring mobile development closer to the cloud
Google Inc. announced more cloud-based capabilities for its mobile and web application development framework Firebase today during the Cloud Next conference in San Francisco. According to the company, the platform will be getting new software development kit functions to offer a complete back-end serverless solution and the re-introduction of Firebase Storage rebranded as Cloud Storage for ...
CNN’s new virtual reality journalism unit brings the news to life
CNN has announced the official launch of its new immersive journalism unit and virtual reality platform within CNN Digital called CNNVR. The new unit will produce VR content designed around CNNs already existing news coverage to produce major news stories in 360-degree video, deliver live streaming VR of breaking events and also produce weekly VR ...