In the past, a lack of transparency in a company’s supply chain could be seen as a competitive advantage. Businesses wanted to keep insight into their suppliers and manufacturers as opaque as possible. If no one knew where supplies were coming from, no one could build identical apparel. And this … Read the rest
Apple co-founder and noted bitcoin bull Steve Wozniak says the hype around blockchain is similar to what he saw in the dotcom era, with companies going belly-up at a rapid rate. “It was a bubble, and I feel that way about blockchain,” Wozniak said Tuesday on stage at the NEX … Read the rest
Data storage in healthcare industries is of critical importance. Security breaches in this sector will not only have an impact financially in terms of health insurance, but could also compromise patient safety. The new platform Timicoin aims to enhance patient data safety through blockchain technology. Describing themselves as the “Tokenized … Read the rest
Blockchain has the potential to revolutionize how gold and precious metals are manufactured and delivered. Consider the journey a gold nugget must take along its supply chain, from mine to end consumer – it cuts through several other industries and practices, including legal, regulatory, financial, manufacturing and retail, each of … Read the rest
Azure Blockchain Workbench is the latest step in Microsoft’s journey to enable customers to adopt blockchain technologies and get started with Azure Blockchain. To provide context, Azure Blockchain is a collection of Azure services and capabilities designed to help enterprises create and deploy a new class of applications for sharing … Read the rest
Africa’s past is possibly something that every individual wants to put behind and the story is not something that is exciting or joyous. Stricken by major barriers such as Colonialism, massive food shortages, the spread of a number of virulent diseases, armed conflict, and unstable economies have all detered the … Read the rest
Hacking and privacy breaches are happening across the world like no other thing. In a world that is driven by data, personal data plays a key role and cannot be more precious; pernicious use of individual human data would appear to be infinite. And thereby, as quoted time and again … Read the rest
Blockchain SaaS startup Bext360, which provides traceability for coffee products for farmers, announced that it has completed its $3.35 million seed round. Investors in the startup include SKS Ventures and Plug and Play Ventures. Bext360’s software keeps track of commodities by identifying and making an electronic token for each … Read the rest
American Express’ new blockchain technology could give the card issuer a massive load of data on product purchases. Amex has built a distributed ledger that merchants can use to tie card rewards to products they want to move off the shelf. For instance, if an auto insurance company wants to … Read the rest
According to leading data and analytics firm GlobalData, South Korea is on its way to become a solid leader in the blockchain community. Businesses like Korea Telecom (KT), for example, are already working to determine how the blockchain can be used to lessen production expenses and generate new types of … Read the rest