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Microsoft beats earnings forecasts, reaching $20 billion cloud revenue run rate
Microsoft Corp. beat earnings expectations in sales for its first fiscal quarter, thanks in no small part to meeting its own self-imposed goal of reaching $20 billion in annual cloud revenue. The software and cloud giant’s shares rose about 4 percent in after-hours trading as a result. Update: In Friday trading, shares were rising more ...
Chain launches cloud-managed blockchain service for business
Enterprise blockchain startup Chain Inc. announced Monday the launch of a cloud-managed distributed ledger service called Sequence for business and financial applications. Sequence provides blockchain technology, a distributed cryptographic ledger that secures transactions privately in an auditable format, as a platform that businesses can access as a service without needing to host the infrastructure themselves. ...
Unity partnership with GameCredits will bring blockchain to mobile games
Game developer tools outfit Unity Technologies SF today announced a partnership with blockchain company GameCredits Inc. to accelerate the adoption of digital assets in the gaming industry. The partnership would potentially bring blockchain assets to 3 billion unique mobile devices running Unity-made games and apps. Founded in 2014, the vision of the GameCredits team is to ...
Mastercard reveals new blockchain payment system for banks and merchants
Global payments and technology company Mastercard Inc. today announced that it will be opening up access to its blockchain technology for banks and merchants through an application programming interface published on Mastercard Developers. The Mastercard blockchain settlement network is based on the same technology that runs the bitcoin network – a global, distributed cryptographic ledger ...
Blockchain investment is booming thanks largely to initial coin offering binge
Initial coin offerings are becoming the funding mechanism of choice for the fast-emerging distributed ledger technology known as blockchain, bolting past corporate and venture investors — but also raising the specter of a bubble and potential mismanagement by startups suddenly flush with a huge amount of funding. Those are some of the key findings from a ...
JP Morgan Chase upgrades its Quorum blockchain with security from Zerocoin
The Zerocoin Electric Coin Co. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. today announced the initial release of a zero-knowledge security layer for J.P. Morgan’s enterprise blockchain and smart contract platform Quorum. Quorum is a distributed ledger technology, or blockchain, developed by J.P. Morgan that’s based on the Ethereum blockchain to facilitate transactions for the financial technology ...
Tour guides come to virtual reality with InstaVR’s ‘guided co-viewing’
The virtual reality authoring, publishing and analysis company InstaVR Inc. today announced an update to its product that lets publishers guide VR content in real-time and let participants “co-view” it. This change enhances the platform so that participants can view content at the same time and adds the ability for a single administrator to effect ...
Blockchain storage is coming to enterprise documentation with Storj-CapLinked deal
Blockchain technology is coming to enterprise document storage thanks to a deal announced Wednesday by decentralized-storage company Storj Labs Inc. and secure document sharing service provider CapLinked Inc. With distributed ledger or blockchain technology, it’s possible to build storage that does not rely on centralized databases and management. This is the paradigm behind Storj Labs, ...
Blockchain melds with professional reputation networks with SpringRole launch
Startup incubator Science Inc. announced today the launch of California-based SpringRole Inc., which will govern the first professional reputation network using artificial intelligence and the distributed ledger technology known as blockchain. Blockchains are widely distributed databases that use cryptography and specialized algorithms to secure the records of ongoing transactions and make historical data tamperproof. As ...
With new UK design studio, Leap Motion explores the boundaries of augmented reality
Mixed-reality sensor and peripherals maker Leap Motion Inc. signaled its intention to expand its efforts in the virtual and augmented reality industry with the announcement today of a London-based design research studio. A spokesperson for the company added that the new London office would be led by visionary AR/VR filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda, who will also ...
