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New York Stock Exchange parent, Fortune 500 and Fortune Future 50 company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced in August its plans to create a new firm, Bakkt, which intended to utilize Microsoft Cloud solutions to create an open and regulated worldwide ecosystem for digital...

Microsoft and the R3 Consortium announced Monday a strategic partnership that will speed up the use of blockchain technologies among R3 member banks and global financial markets. As part of the agreement, Microsoft Azure will be the preferred cloud services provider for the R3...

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to drop support for bitcoin for purchases on its online Windows and Xbox stores after reports suggested it had quietly withdrawn support for the digital currency, reported International Business Times (IBTimes).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...

Microsoft has quietly dropped support for bitcoin in its Windows 10 Store, reported Softpedia. According to a Windows Store FAQ update, as cited by Softpedia, bitcoin is no longer accepted when purchasing content from Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile stores. “Microsoft Store...

Digital currency and blockchain platform Emercoin announced partnership with software giant Microsoft earlier in the month. Emercoin said that under the partnership it will be delivering its suite of blockchain services to the Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) marketplace of...

Over the past week, Microsoft and Bank of America demonstrated their increasing interest and investment into blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Microsoft Azure’s Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) has opened its services to three more technologies, Finance Magnates...

Coinprism, the company behind “colored coins” standard Open Assets, used by NASDAQ and Overstock, has announced a partnership with software giant Microsoft. “Since the launch of Openchain a couple of months ago, we have encountered a lot of interest from institutional players....

Microsoft is the latest in a wave of large corporations to invest in blockchain technology. Reuters reports today that Microsoft launched a blockchain platform with ConsenSys, a Brooklyn-based startup. Offered through Microsoft’s Azure, the new cloud-based platform aim...

Microsoft has quietly begun accepting Bitcoin, allowing users to add the digital currency to their Microsoft accounts, reported CoinTelegraph. The company is reportedly using BitPay as its payment processor. The news agency said that at its press time, no official announcement...