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UK-based e-commerce digital payment solutions firm Secure Trading announced the appointment of Mustafa Al Bassam, former hactivist for the group LulzSec, as a security advisor on technology and services, according to Finextra. Mufasta will be working on the company’s...

Microsoft has announced it has no plans to drop support for bitcoin for purchases on its online Windows and Xbox stores after reports suggested it had quietly withdrawn support for the digital currency, reported International Business Times (IBTimes). Several media outlets...

Bitcoin startup Gem is collaborating with a number of partners in the healthcare sector in which its shared ledger and data security platform is taking use cases from prototype to production, reported the International Business Times (IBTimes) UK. “The healthcare industry is...

Last month, blockchain technology company Factom, Inc. announced a partnership with Chinese data notarization company Ancun Zhengxin. The goal of the partnership is to incorporate blockchain technology into Ancun’s services to customers. The permanence of transactions that...

The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) has hired bitcoin entrepreneur Anthony Di Iorio as its first chief digital officer as it researches the capabilities of blockchain technology, reported Reuters. Jean Desgagne, chief executive of TMX’s Global Enterprise Services, told Reuters in an...

On Thursday, financial technology firm R3 CEV announced that is has finalized a trial in which 40 banks part of its consortium tested five different blockchains to issue, trade and redeem a fixed-income product, reported Forbes. R3 believes this is the largest test of blockchain...

New York-based blockchain technology startup Ribbit.me closed a $1.5 million seed round, according to a press release sent to CoinReport. Hayaat Group, a Dubai-based investment company, led the round with Privity FZ LLC acting as its advisor. “We are the first company to...

Spondoolies-Tech, a transaction verification server manufacturer, received a key approval from the Israeli Office of Chief Scientist (OCS) to merge with blockchain technology company BTCS. According to a press release sent to CoinReport, this is the first of two key approvals...

Safe Cash Payments Technologies, Inc. has announced its blockchain can handle up to 25,000 transactions per second, according to a press release sent to CoinReport. This reported transaction time is 3,000 times the number of transactions bitcoin’s blockchain can currently...

Blockchain technology company Factom, Inc. and China-based Ancun Zhengxin have announced a partnership to integrate their technologies to further their missions of “enhancing integrity in information management,” according to a press release sent to CoinReport. The...