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High Fidelity raises $35M to develop blockchain economies for VR marketplaces
Looking to continue to push the envelope of virtual reality social platforms, High Fidelity Inc. announced today it has raised $35 million in a late-stage funding to continue developing its global infrastructure. The open-source distributed VR platform received $20 million from digital ledger blockchain technology investment firm Galaxy Digital Ventures and from additional new investors including ...
Twilio reaches out to developers and consultants with Build partner program
Cloud communications platform provider Twilio Inc. announced today that the company is getting down in the trenches with developers through the launch of Twilio Build, a partner program for certification, training and market support aimed at developer success. Ron Huddleston, chief partner officer at Twilio, called Build a developer-first approach that focuses on application programming ...
Theta Labs launches beta blockchain video delivery network and $2M development fund
Distributed media network startup Theta Labs Inc., the developer of the first video delivery network powered by distributed ledger blockchain technology, today announced the launch of a public testnet beta that will introduce its distributed streaming protocol. Alongside the release of this public testnet, Theta will also launch a $2 million distributed app development fund ...
Ernst & Young and Microsoft build blockchain to power Xbox royalty payments
The world of royalty remittance and digital rights contracts is fraught with accounting errors, inefficiency and complex contracts. To solve this problem, software giant Microsoft Corp. and assurance advisory company Ernst & Young Global Ltd. have partnered up to develop distributed ledger blockchain technology to streamline royalty payments among game publishers, developers and others. In ...
Mediaocean and IBM launch ad transparency blockchain solution
Advertising services and software agency Mediaocean LLC today announced a partnership with IBM iX, IBM Corp.’s business design division, and the launch of a digital ledger blockchain platform for transparency in digital media advertisement supply chains. Mediaocean and IBM iX brought together a consortium of advertisers, agencies and publishers – including Kellogg Co., Kimberly-Clark Corp., Pfizer ...
Google launches VR180 Creator to make desktop VR video editing easier
To assist with the creation of 180-degree virtual reality photos and video, Google LLC announced on Friday the launch of its VR180 Creator tool that will be available for MacOS and Linux. The tool is designed to work with the VR180 app video and photo format, which uses special 180-degree cameras to seamlessly upload VR video ...
Adents and Microsoft launch blockchain-based supply chain traceability platform
Track and trace supply chain solutions provider Adents International today announced that the company has developed a new unit-level product tracking platform using distributed ledger blockchain technology in collaboration with Microsoft Corp. The platform, named Adents Novatrack, would be used to secure entire supply chains to provide end-to-end trackability of individual units. Christophe Devins, founder and ...
Adblock Plus maker launches blockchain-based browser plugin to fight fake news
Eyeo GmbH, the German developer of adblocking browser plugin Adblock Plus, today launched a new project designed to tackle fake news called Trusted News. The new project is also a browser extension, initially available for Google Chrome, that would help users identify the credibility of news sources when browsing the web by providing icons identifying ...
Facebook open-sources Sonar mobile debugging tool for iOS and Android
Facebook Inc. today announced the open-source release of Sonar, an extensible mobile debugging tool for developers designed to give programmers a better idea of what their app is doing. The software expands on an Android debugging tool based on Google Chome’s developer platform. Sonar rises from the same concept, but does so by providing an extendable platform ...
Ant Financial raises $14 billion to accelerate financial technology, blockchain development
Ant Financial, formerly Alipay and a subsidiary of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., today announced the company has secured $14 billion in funding from investors. The Series C investment will reportedly fund the acceleration of development for blockchain technology, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things projects. The company intends to expand its reach ...
