Ant Financial raises $14 billion and has $150 billion valuation

China’s Ant Financial, the payment affiliate of Alibaba, has raised a total of $14 billion. It was a yuan and dollar-denominated tranches. Investors included Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds GIC and Temasek, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional Berhad and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Private equity groups included Warburg Pincus, Silver Lake Partners and General Atlantic. Alibaba …

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KindAds.io Email and notification ads an alternative to banner ads without some of the downsides

Currently, the dominant internet advertising method is intrusive banners. Apart from the user experience issues, this creates a growing problem of spam, fraud and bots infecting the banner ad networks and systems. An upcoming blockchain startup, Kind Ads will show internet users more relevant and less intrusive ads through channels like email marketing and push …

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eToro lets you copy the trades of winning traders in real-time and copied traders earn 2% fees

For more than a decade, eToro has been a leader in the global Fintech revolution. eToro is the world’s leading social trading network, with millions of registered users and an array of innovative trading and investment tools. eToro has plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto wallet and raised $100 million in private funding. …

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Incapsula Review and Installation Process

Incapsula is a cloud-based application delivery service that enables online businesses of all sizes to enjoy enterprise-grade website security, performance and availability. Incapsula includes a best-of-breed web application firewall, comprehensive DDoS protection, a global content delivery network, and an application level load balancer, which are available as standalone services or as an integrated solution. Incapsula …

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Dubai building museum of the future and a blockchain future – C2 Montreal #C2M18

C2 Montreal talk and forum on Blockchain There was a futurist talk by Dubai’s futurist Noah Raford. Dr Noah Raford – Dubai Future Foundation What does the world look like in 2068 (next 50 years) Dubai is the intersection of Disneyland, government and business. Dubai itself is only 47 years old. Now a huge success …

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Interview with Kyle Kemper of Blockchain Canada – C2 Montreal #C2M18

Kyle Kemper is executive director of the nonprofit Blockchain Association of Canada (BAC). Kyle shows leaders and influencers the potential of Blockchain technology in an effort to supercharge the blockchain ecosystem and turn Canada into a global hub of fintech excellence. Kyle says he’s looking forward to blockchain reducing the influence of centralized monetary policy …

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South Korea will have wide availability of 10 Gbps internet by the end of this year

South Korea’s SK Broadband announced the launch of its new 2.5Gbps (gigabit per second) high-speed internet service. the Giga Premium service is three times faster than the already fast South Korea internet services. Existing customers who sign up for the service won’t need to change cables. The service will allow users to download high volumes …

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Microsoft wants low error topological quantum computers on its Azure cloud within 5 years

Microsoft is leading the development of topological quantum computing which it claims is far less error-prone than rival quantum computing approaches. Microsoft wants to apply 1000 low error topological quantum qubits in about five years on the Azure cloud computing service. “We are very close to figuring out a topological qubit. We are working on …

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Firmo protocol for financial derivatives on the blockchain

The Firmo protocol executes financial contracts on blockchain technology. Contracts are written using the domain specific language; FirmoLang. FirmoLang provides a secure execution environment for financial contracts on decentralized asset-classes. Similar to software built for airplane coordination, FirmoLang is formally verified, yielding needed security benefits for smart contracts in finance. FirmoLang compiles directly to Ethereum …

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DATA for decentralized AI powered trusted digital ecosystem

DATA is a blockchain based digital data authentication protocol powered by AI and P2P mobile storage infrastructure, enabling a decentralized and trusted digital ecosystem. They have a blockchain based advertising protocol and technology stack to authenticate user and device data and resolve to prevent fraudulent data from populating in the entire supply and demand advertising …

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