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Legaler develops legal aid blockchain infrastructure with $1.5 million funding round
Australian legal communications technology company Legaler Pty Ltd. announced Monday that it has raised $1.5 million in funds in a round led by MasterNode Ventures, joined by Pacific Blue Capital and a number of prominent legal industry figures. The company intends to use the funding to expand its planned distributed ledger blockchain technology infrastructure designed to ...
Chinese retailer JD.com launches e-commerce blockchain platform for business and enterprise
Chinese retail giant JD.com Inc. announced today that the company is launching a new distributed ledger blockchain technology platform aimed at enterprise customers to help them build, host and use their own blockchain applications. The platform, known as the JD Blockchain Open Platform, is designed so that enterprise customers can easily create and adjust smart ...
Verses launches augmented reality blockchain to connect physical and virtual spaces
Los Angeles-based company Verses, maker of a protocol for virtual and augmented reality that allows people to own, monetize and trade digital goods set in physical spaces, announced the startup’s launch of its service today. Verses has also partnered with Blockchain Industries, Inc., Decentra Fund and other parties to launch a private token sale internationally, which has ...
Dexon raises $20 million to develop superspeed blockchain transaction network
The Dexon Foundation, startup and developer of a high-speed, distributed ledger blockchain protocol, announced today it has completed a $20 million private funding round led by IDG Capital to push development of its network. Dexon provides a platform for developing decentralized applications. The software has its back-end code running across a highly distributed platform capable of ...
IBM and Maersk launch TradeLens blockchain shipping platform to lower costs and ship faster
Computing giant IBM Corp. and global shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk Group announced Thursday the official launch of TradeLens, a distributed ledger blockchain platform for tracking shipments and managing supply chains jointly developed by the two companies. This follows an announcement by the two companies about the collaborative project in January, which started as a trial ...
Magic Leap One augmented reality goggles ship today for $2,295
The much-hyped augmented reality company Magic Leap Inc. announced the launch of its first commercial product today: a pair of AR goggles named the Magic Leap One Creator Edition. The company announced that its first headset would ship this summer, and now the goggles have hit the market with a price tag of $2,295. Although the goggles ...
Anthem, Doc.ai healthcare partnership seeks to use blockchain and AI to predict allergies
National healthcare benefits company Anthem Inc. announced Wednesday it has partnered with blockchain-based artificial intelligence platform Doc.ai Inc. to develop a data trial designed to predict when allergies might strike. Allergies plague more than 50 million Americans with symptoms each year; over 40 percent of children have allergies and over 30 percent of adults also ...
Google unleashes the power of the web in VR with Chrome browser for Daydream
Technology giant Google LLC announced Monday that users of its mobile virtual reality platform Daydream can now launch its web browser Chrome and natively surf the web in VR. Users with Google’s Daydream View or the Lenovo Mirage Solo with Daydream can now explore the web with Google Chrome by launching it directly from their ...
Virtual world developer Improbable raises $50M from Chinese game giant NetEase
London-based startup Improbable Ltd., best known for its virtual simulated world software SpatialOS, announced Thursday that Chinese gaming giant NetEase Inc. has invested $50 million in the company. SpatialOS is a cloud-based technology used to assist game makers in building extremely large-scale virtual worlds, such as those that are found in many modern massively multiplayer ...
Facebook’s stock tanks on lower earnings and guidance as security fixes take toll
Worried investors hammered shares of Facebook Inc. late today as the social media giant missed second-quarter earnings forecasts and user growth flagged. Facebook’s stock dropped just over 9 percent during after-hours trading after the earnings report came out. By the end of the earnings call, the drop worsened substantially, to nearly 20 percent, to about $174.20. Update: Shares ...
