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Ooredoo
Telecom
2 min read

Ooredoo launches global blockchain initiative

Blockchain is a fast-growing digital enabler, with safe, secure, and reliable “distributed ledger” technology providing a permanent digital record of ownership that allows every part of a transaction to be verified. While many organizations may know…

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Fashion
6 min read

Blockchain in the business of fashion

Fashion brands are finally beginning to take note of the rising consumer awareness on traceability and sustainability particularly driven by the millenniums. These evolving consumers are deep diving into knowing the history of the apparels before they buy –…

artificial intelligence
Startups
2 min read

Vietnamese startup launches platform for hiring blockchain talents

Getdone is a platform that connects blockchain talents, who can work as full-time employees or freelancers, to global clients in blockchain industry. This platform is the universal version of freelancerviet.vn, a leading freelancer platform in Vietnam. It…

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Finance
2 min read

SimplyBrand blockchain platform launches token pre-sale

SimplyBrand, the world’s first blockchain-based e-commerce verification platform, launched a token pre-sale this week with strategic partner Cobinhood, a cryptocurrency service platform. By integrating blockchain, AI and crowdsourcing, SimplyBrand aims to end…

Blockchain
2 min read

First Binance Blockchain Week Set for Singapore Next Month

About 2,000 people from around the world are expected to attend the inaugural Binance Blockchain Week in Singapore on Jan. 19-22. The conference, which will take place at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre in Marina Bay Sands, is presented by Binance, the…

Line Naver
Living
1 min read

Naver Labs, Qualcomm to team up on future tech

Naver Labs and Qualcomm will work together on future technology like robotics and self-driving vehicles, the local IT company said on Tuesday. The two companies signed an agreement on Monday to combine their knowledge and expertise. U.S.-based Qualcomm is a…

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Telecom
1 min read

Blockchain used for inter-carrier settlements in PoC trial

Members of the International Telecoms Week (ITW) Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF), including PCCW Global and Telstra, have completed a proof of concept trial demonstrating how blockchain technology can transform inter-carrier settlement by streamlining complex…

KakaoTalk with money
Finance
2 min read

Kakao’s blockchain gets 9 development partners

Nine companies have agreed to develop apps for Kakao’s new Klaytn blockchain system. The public platform was developed by Ground X, Kakao’s blockchain subsidiary. It was offered on Oct. 8 on a test basis, or testnet. Kakao, Korea’s largest messenger app…

Blockchain
Finance
1 min read

Samsung works with Dutch on blockchain

Samsung SDS said on Sunday it signed a partnership with two Dutch entities, ABN AMRO and the Port of Rotterdam, to use blockchain technologies for logistics. The IT solutions and logistics arm of Samsung will link its Nexledger blockchain product with ABN…

visa
Finance
2 min read

KBank-Visa to pilot blockchain based B2B payments

Visa announced Kasikornbank is the first Thai financial institution to join the Visa B2B Connect pilot program. Visa B2B Connect is a new platform that Visa is developing to give financial institutions a simple, fast and secure way to process cross-border…

crypto wallets
Finance
2 min read

Bitcoin Cash Wallet Cointext Expands to Asia via Hong Kong

Hong Kong is the primary city in Asia to formally be associated by Cointext, an administration which empowers anybody to send cash to mobile numbers or Bitcoin Cash addresses without Internet, applications, or records. Notwithstanding inhabitants of the…

Jack Ma
Finance
2 min read

Blockchain Yet to Prove Its Use to the World according to Jack Ma

Alibaba chief Jack Ma thinks blockchain tech is pretty meaningless – unless it helps us transform the manufacturing industry and protect the environment. In a keynote at World Artificial Intelligence Conference in China, the star entrepreneur shared his…

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General
2 min read

Blockchain, AI the next big thing for advertisers

The integration of analytical and data-driven technologies with AI and Blockchain can help businesses better understand customers’ behaviors, habits, interests, and needs. Thus, direct advertisements are easy to access consumers at the right time and the…

Blockchain
Fashion
4 min read

How blockchain is disrupting fashion

One of the most cutting-edge development is the incorporation of blockchain technology. Blockchain is a global online database that anyone with an internet connection can use, but it doesn’t belong to anyone. Block What? A blockchain is a distributed database…