AT&T and Ericsson are teaming up to provide comprehensive testing for organisations to safeguard connected devices. According to AT&T, only 10% of its surveyed organisations say they are confident about their devices having sufficient security measures in place. The operator has seen an increase in vulnerability scans of IoT devices at the company in the last […]
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In fundraising news Thursday, Opendoor, the home selling startup, said that it has raised $400 million from SoftBank’s Vision Fund. As VentureBeat noted, the latest announcement comes on the heels of a $325 million fundraising round seen three months ago, that time as a Series E. The cumulative tally raised to date comes to more […]
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American delivery services giant FedEx has joined Hyperledger to contribute to blockchain technology development. American courier delivery services giant FedEx has joined Hyperledger, an open-source project established to improve cross-industry blockchain technologies, according to a press release published September 26. Hyperledger, which is hosted by the Linux Foundation, enables organizations to build blockchain-based industry-grade applications, […]
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A recent report by the Statis Group shows that the volume of cryptocurrency trading will grow at a CAGR of 9 percent until 2028. The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct […]
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Crypto mining malware has risen by 86% in Q2, with 2.5 million new malware coin miner samples, according to a McAfee Labs report. The number of crypto mining malware attacks used by hackers has continued rising, with total samples growing by 86% in the second quarter of 2018, according to the latest threat report by […]
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Amazon’s Echo smart speakers were facing connectivity issues in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe earlier on Wednesday (Sept. 26), but are now up and running again. Reuters, citing outage tracker Downdetector.com, reported the website had logged hundreds of reports about problems with the Echo speakers that power Alexa, Amazon’s voice-activated digital assistant. The report noted […]
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Google recently announced that it would lift its moratorium on certain types of cryptocurrency advertising. Specifically, Google will allow registered cryptocurrency exchanges to advertise in the US and Japan. In simple terms, if your company runs a cryptocurrency exchange like Coinbase that is registered and licensed, you can advertise. Licensure, such as BitLicense in New […]
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One card to rule them all: the mantra rings throughout the payments realm, and smacks of some sorcery and swashbuckling movies one may remember. Like a scene out of a Tolkien movie, though, the lure of that mantra has left a lot of bodies in its wake, where peril outweighed promise, where startups burned through cash. […]
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Paris: The Assemblée Nationale is debating about a new legal framework allowing ICOs to gain a ‘quality’ certification issued by the French monetary authority. Today, the Assemblée Nationale (the French parliament’s lower house) is initiating a debate about a legal project introduced last June by the Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, which […]
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It’s been said that you never set foot in the same river twice. Or stream, for that matter – and let’s extend that to “streaming music service.” To put it another way, everything changes, sooner rather than later. The stream of notes and talks and podcasts and all manner of audio content is about to […]
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