Multi-national company the SoftBank Group, which is a major mobile carrier business in Japan, has announced that it will make a tender offer for shares of Yahoo Japan Corporation, Japan’s leading Internet portal operator. SoftBank plans to buy Yahoo Japan’s shares for approximately 221.0 billion yen, securing around 11% of the 35% of Yahoo Japan Corporation…
The Robert Mueller-led investigation has indicted 12 Russian Intelligence operatives, acting in their official capacity as members of the Kremlin’s’ Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU), for a litany of acts each designed to undermine the integrity of the election. The indictment states: “The object of the conspiracy was to hack into protected…
Rumor of BlackRock bitcoin ETF (High Impact) The market got a shot of adrenaline on Monday on rumors that the world’s biggest asset manager BlackRock was looking into trading cryptocurrencies and even establishing a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF). Although the BlackRock chief executive dispelled the rumors shortly after, saying clients had “zero interest” in…
What’s one of the worst things that can happen to a gamer? They build up a character—experience, inventory, what have you—and then the game stops being supported and they lose everything. Well, that may be a thing of the past from now on. Immortal Player Characters are game characters built on the blockchain—which means, they’re…
The crypto world’s most used cryptocurrency index, CoinMarketCap, has recently been under the line of fire lately for its protocols. Now, CoinMarketCap addresses issues, at least some of them. It all started with Reddit… We’re happy to announce our new subreddit! Please join the discussion at https://t.co/FQowKFktV5. — CoinMarketCap (@CoinMarketCap) July 9, 2018 CoinMarketCap Adopts…
The third round of blockchain rankings has been released by the Chinese government. Yet again, China ranks EOS number one. The rankings, released by the government-backed China Electronic Information Industry Development (CCID), evaluate the public blockchain networks with three different metrics. The metrics include technology, applicability, and innovation. Previous Leaders CCID released its first set…
We know their names, but that’s not always enough. To appreciate the young in the world of business, Fortune, a multinational magazine, publishes its ’40 under 40′ list every year. Yesterday, the 2018 Fortune 40 under 40 list was released—and four crypto players made it. Vitalik Buterin makes Fortune 40 under 40, plus more! Crypto Makes…
In today’s world, each firm in a market has an insanely complex IT estate with hundreds or thousands of corporate applications, many of which do the same thing as their competitors. But it’s worse than that. Not only do firms have massively duplicated systems, none of them are ever in sync. However, the advent of…
Apart from the constant cash burn, the missed production targets, the deaths, defaults and debilitating debt, Tesla was dragged to a further low this month when its CEO publicly slandered a diver involved in the rescue of a youth football team trapped in a cave in Thailand, calling him a paedophile in retaliation for the…
Andreas M. Antonopoulos | Clark Kent (Superman)@aantonop Represents the best attributes of humanity and the ultimate force of good. Andreas is an advocate for spreading awareness and providing educational content about Bitcoin (and decentralized cryptocurrencies in general). He has written and published more than 200 articles on everything ranging from cryptography, security, distributed networks, cloud…
