The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM, Calcutta) will kickstart an advanced programme in FinTech and financial blockchain for management and financial professionals. The institute will join hands with TalentSprint, a digital platform which provides certificate courses in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, among others. Indranil Bose, a programme director at IIM, Calcutta, told news portal Asian […]
The Tezos blockchain will be validating the first on-chain blockchain update by undertaking a series of backward-incompatible adjustments to the network today. The advancement proposal which was termed the advancement proposal, was the first to pass through the network’s “self-amendment” process, reported news portal Coinnounce. The portal further stated that the bakers on Tezos- the same level as miners on […]
PolicyBazaar, an Indian insurance company announced that it was tying up with Accrivis Network, which is a data integration platform provider, to integrate blockchain to ensure ‘customer centricity through data security and application integration’ on Thursday. According to a report published by The Tech Panda, the company is looking to integrate blockchain in an effort to reduce data […]
A blockchain-based real-estate platform has gone live in the US and the global launch is expected to be sometime in 2018. The project is called Shelter Zoom, based on ethereum. The platform offers a widget, a dashboard and an app that helps buyers or their agents to instantly submit an offer from any online real […]
Reliance Jio in collaboration with CISCO organized India Digital Open Summit on Friday in Mumbai. The session included a wide range of topics such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), open source, the impact of data consumption in India, to name a few. The programme kicked off with President of Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited taking the dais to […]
It seems that big corporations have suddenly entered in a race to launch their own crypto tokens. First of all it was JPMorgan which announced its JPM Coin. Then Facebook announced its plans about Libra. Then we heard about a patent that Walmart has obtained to develop its own token. And now similar news is coming from Germany, where […]
Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, has announced its unadulterated support and admiration for the internet browser, Brave. The founder of one of the largest free information website, published a post, ‘The Two problems of computer technology’ recently. He proposed to go about it by ditching Chrome as he says, “Google collects massive amounts of information from us via their […]
An Indian bank, YES Bank has completed an issuance of corporate debt using blockchain built by Monetago on R3’s Corda. The transaction worth Rs 1 billion rupees ($14.5 million) was carried out on behalf on the Indian NGO Vedanta and used distributed ledger technology to share documentation electronically among all parties involved, which removed the need […]
Way back in 2016, the number of full nodes within the Bitcoin network was dropping. At the time, the dropping number of nodes, fuelled the scaling debate, among bitcoin enthusiasts. However, in contrary to people’s expectations, the full node count of BTC has been increasing and over the past year, it has crossed over 06 […]
In what will come as a surprise, phone company HTC announced that it was unveiling HTC Exodus 1s, which is a cheaper version of the Exodus 1 phone with built-in cryptocurrency and blockchain. The company said it would be launching the new phone in the third quarter of 2019, according to news portal Venture Beat. Last year in […]