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Blockchain Projects in the EU to Benefit from Publicly Available Data

June 18, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain

The Council of European Union, the institution representing the member states' government, has implemented new rules that will promote the use of publicly held data. These will include real-time datasets pertaining to weather and transportation and will be in blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) projects to foster digital innovation across...

Blast from the Past Bitcoin Price Decline Bears Strong Resemblance to the Nasdaq Crash of 2000

Nasdaq and CryptoCompare to Debut Trusted Cryptocurrency Data Service

June 11, 2019 by Osato Avan-Nomayo at Finance

In a press release shared with BTCManager on June 11, 2019, CryptoCompare has announced the launch of a new institutional grade pricing and data aggregation product in conjunction with Nasdaq. The cryptocurrency aggregation platform says the new service will be hosted on Quandl, another alternative data service. The data aggregator...

Blockchain Flying through Piles of Money

Bicameral Interconnected Investments: A New Take on Strategic Blockchain Investing

May 23, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Blockchain

Venture capital firm Bicameral Ventures has funded three new companies to help build a technological ecosystem and improve product development management. Nodesmith, metaMe, and Velocia provide an array of mutual solutions from improving developer uptime to enhancing traffic flow management for urban regions. This new investment thesis is a refreshing...

Sundar Pichai Says Google Committed to Protect User’s Privacy

May 9, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at News

At a time when people are becoming increasingly interested in knowing how social media platforms and other firms handle their personal data, Google CEO, Sundar Pichai has revealed that though the search engine giant uses people’s data to give them the best experience, they still put in much efforts to...

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Three Scientists Dismissed from MD Ander Cancer Center Amid “Academic Espionage” Allegations

April 24, 2019 by Eddie Mitchell at Crime, Cybersecurity, Regulation

Three senior researchers at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, are reported to have been ousted from their positions due to allegations of what can be described as "academic espionage" in connection with China. This, according to reports from The Houston Chronicle and Science magazine on April 19,...

Users Aren’t Concerned Enough About Privacy, NYT Says

April 12, 2019 by Tokoni Uti at Crime, Cybersecurity, News, Tech

Home surveillance cameras appear to have a darker edge to them, and may be utilized to collect and distribute data in a way that consumers aren't taking seriously, an April 11, 2019, New York Times report details. Exploited Data The topic of privacy is one that has found its way...

UpGaurd Agent Scoping through Facebook Photos

UpGuard Discovers Millions of Facebook Users’ Data on Insecure Third-Party Servers

April 5, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain, Development, News

UpGuard, a platform focused on helping vendor management teams mitigate cyber risks, has released a report on April 3, 2019, revealing how it found millions of Facebook users’ personal information on two insecure third-party servers exposed to the public Internet. Facebook Still Leaking Peoples’ Data The UpGuard Cyber Risk team...

Golem Introduces Open-Source Knowledge Portal

April 3, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Blockchain, Development, News, Platform

On April 2, 2019, blockchain project Golem introduced a new documentation platform that would vastly help lower the barriers of entry for people looking to get into the project. Razing the Entry Barriers Golem is a blockchain-powered project that allows users to monetize their idle CPU and GPU power in...

CoinMarketCap Launches Two Cryptocurrency Indices on Nasdaq, Bloomberg, Reuters

March 21, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Adoption, Altcoins, Bitcoin, Development, Exchange, Finance, News

Popular cryptocurrency data website CoinMarketCap (CMC) on March 20, 2019, launched two comprehensive benchmark indices on financial data feeds from Nasdaq Global Index Data Service (GIDS), Bloomberg Terminal, Thomson Reuters Eikon, and Börse Stuttgart. Two Indices to Track the Market A lack of accurate data has been one of the...

New Report Suggests Top Crypto Exchanges Fake Their Volume

March 21, 2019 by Tokoni Uti at Business, Exchange, Finance, News

A report has emerged suggesting that many of the top 100 crypto exchanges have faked their transaction volumes by up to ten times the correct amount. This was reported by Bloomberg on March 19, 2019. Not Adding Up Analysts, crypto users, and law enforcement are seemingly always on the lookout...

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