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Japanese Manufacturers Enter Blockchain-Backed Data Sharing Arrangement

Overseen by the Industrial Value Chain Initiative, the blockchain project will connect 100 Japanese manufacturers to share information......»»

Category: forexSource: coindeskJun 19th, 2019

Brazilian Financial Regulators Will Vet Companies and Political Appointees on a Blockchain

Brazil’s major financial regulators have unified their intelligence troves under a blockchain-backed sharing system called PIER......»»

Category: forexSource: coindeskApr 2nd, 2020

Ride-Sharing Company Grab Raises $856M, Seeks To Expand Its Financial Services

SoftBank Group Corporation (OTC: SFTBY) backed Grab, a ride-hailing company operating in Southeast Asia, is raising more than $850 million from Japanese firms Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc read more.....»»

Category: blogSource: benzingaFeb 25th, 2020

Major Korean Banks Join Government-Backed Blockchain ID Initiative

Institutions including the Shinhan and NH Nonghyup banks have joined a blockchain identity initiative aimed to securely share personal data......»»

Category: forexSource: coindeskOct 21st, 2019

South Korea Aims to Put Trade Finance on the Blockchain by 2021

The government-backed program will bring trade and contract data into distributed ledgers......»»

Category: forexSource: coindeskOct 15th, 2019

Apollo Cryptocurrency Brings You Database Sharing

Apollo (APL), a cryptocurrency backed by the Apollo Foundation, said Friday it successfully implemented database sharding to reduce blockchain bloat. read more.....»»

Category: blogSource: benzingaJul 26th, 2019

Steve Case Backs $4.7M Seed Round for Blockchain Database Startup Fluree

This North Carolina-based startup is extending blockchain fundamentals to data sharing......»»

Category: forexSource: coindeskJun 4th, 2019

GM, BMW Back Blockchain Data Sharing For Self-Driving Cars

General Motors will chair the next autonomous vehicle data markets working group, using blockchain to help share self-driving data......»»

Category: forexSource: coindeskApr 8th, 2019

China"s State Electricity Firm Eyes Blockchain to Decentralize Data Sharing

China State Grid Corporation, the country's state-owned power utility, is looking to blockchain to advance its plans for an "Internet of Energy.".....»»

Category: forexSource: coindeskApr 10th, 2018

VSP invests in, forms partnership with online security company PokitDok

PokitDok Inc. creates data-sharing platforms using blockchain, the technology that is also behind the digital currency bitcoin......»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsMay 8th, 2018

Facebook reportedly gave over 60 device makers access to data on users, friends

Facebook has a new scandal on their hands - a New York Times report that says the social media giant had data sharing agreements with at least 60 phone and device manufacturers. Rob Smith (@robsmithonline) has all the details......»»

Category: topSource: moneycentralJun 4th, 2018

Mitsubishi Bets People Will Reveal Their Driving Habits to Insurers---For a Freebie

Mitsubishi Motors is trying a novel approach to get more American car owners interested in sharing driving data with auto insurers: $10 off an oil change. The Japanese car maker has debuted a rewards-linked smartphone app......»»

Category: smallbizSource: wsjJul 6th, 2018

Nissan Admits Emissions-Test Data Was Falsified

Staff at some of Nissan Motor’s Japan plants falsified auto-emissions and fuel-economy data, the company said, in what is the latest data-faking incident among Japanese manufacturers......»»

Category: smallbizSource: wsjJul 9th, 2018

Streamr Is First Blockchain Organization To Win Startup AutoBahn Global Innovation Award

Blockchain-backed data platform, Streamr, joins previous winners Porsche and Daimler in receiving Plug and Play Global Innovation Award for Partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Q2 hed.....»»

Category: blogSource: valuewalkJul 20th, 2018

Mazda, Suzuki, Yamaha Motor cheated on fuel economy, emissions testing: Japan government

Mazda Motor Corp, Suzuki Motor Corp and Yamaha Motor Co improperly tested vehicles for fuel economy and emissions, the Japanese government said on Thursday, in the latest cases of data falsifications by the nation's manufacturers......»»

Category: topSource: reutersAug 9th, 2018

A company that calls itself the "Flatiron Health of rare diseases" and is backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos just raised $3 million

RDMD RDMD is a platform for data sharing between patients with rare diseases, doctors, and researchers. The company announced on Monday it har raised $3 million in seed funding led by Lux Capital and Village Global, whose .....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderAug 20th, 2018

$1 Billion Blockchain Fund Founders Plan Japanese Yen Stablecoin

Founding partners of the $1 billion blockchain fund backed by a Chinese city government are planning to roll out a Japanese yen-pegged stablecoin......»»

Category: forexSource: coindeskSep 18th, 2018

BlackBerry Unveils Blockchain Partnership to Support Medical Research

BlackBerry announced Thursday it was working with ONEBIO to support a new blockchain platform aimed at storing and sharing medical research data......»»

Category: forexSource: coindeskOct 4th, 2018

Japanese Firms Claim Success in Marine Insurance Blockchain Trial

NTT DATA and a major Japanese insurer have completed a blockchain trial that speeds up marine cargo insurance claims......»»

Category: forexSource: coindeskNov 12th, 2018

Facebook CEO backed sharing customer data despite second thoughts: documents

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg questioned the business case for giving millions of outside software developers wide access to customer data before endorsing the practice in 2012, according to internal emails published on Wednesday......»»

Category: topSource: reutersDec 6th, 2018

IBM, Aetna, PNC Explore Medical Data Blockchain for 100 Million Health Plans

Aetna, Anthem, Health Care Service Corporation, PNC Bank and IBM are collaborating to improve healthcare data sharing with blockchain......»»

Category: forexSource: coindeskJan 24th, 2019