Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is holding talks about an initial public offering (IPO) where it would be valued at $70-80 billion. (The Wall Street Journal reported) Didi Chuxing was last valued at more than $50 billion in December, after raising $4 billion from investors including Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. Didi Chuxing could go public as …
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is holding talks about an initial public offering (IPO) where it would be valued at $70-80 billion. (The Wall Street Journal reported) Didi Chuxing was last valued at more than $50 billion in December, after raising $4 billion from investors including Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. Didi Chuxing could go public as …
China’s GDP for the first quarter of 2018 was 19.88 trillion yuan. This was 10.5% more than the first quarter of 2017 (18.03 trillion yuan). The exchange rate is 6.32 yuan per US dollar. The exchange has been in the range of 6.25 to 6.35 for most of 2018. The inflation rate is 1.5 to …
Telegram has already raised $1.7 billion from two private sales and will be able to raise billions more in private sales. Telegram may not bother to have a public ICO. Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging service. Telegram client apps are available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows NT, macOS and Linux. Users can send …
Ray Kurzweil has spoken about how current Deep Learning systems needs billions of examples to get trained to human level of capabilities or beyond. The Deep learning system AlphaGop Zero taught itself to play the game of Go better than any human or computer program before it by can create billions of examples by simulating …
The ICO market has not collapsed. There is still more money being raised by ICO’s in 2018. December 2017 ended with a new record of $1.1 billion raised, and the first quarter of 2018 with its $5 billion raised already exceeded the whole of last year. The overall volume of ICO projects in 2018 could …
There are interesting parallels between blockchain supply chain and containerization and the impacts on the world and their inventors. Blockchain supply chain should have multi-trillion dollar impacts and containerization has had multi-trillion dollar impacts. Both improve the efficiency, speed and scale of trading. Both have made the inventors very rich. Shipping containers are considered one …
The world currently wastes or loses trillions of dollars from inefficient management of supply chains. There is hundreds of billions lost of fraud and counterfeiting. There is bureaucracy and administration to handle accounting, auditing and administration. There are multiple computer systems used by each party to the system. Supply chains makeup or impact 70% of …
An all-out trade war between the US and China would seem like a problem for the USA. A batch of Boeing orders would be replaced by Airbus. US auto and iPhone sales in China would suffer a setback, and US soybean and maize imports would be halted. California wine can be replaced with European and …
KYC.Legal is a service that allows to verify users and to prevent fraud. It is based on blockchain technology as a tool for protecting and validating personal data of Internet users. For KYC.legal users Personal information is protected by encryption and biometric data Data is hosted on user’s device User is able to choose information …
Morgan Stanley predicts Microsoft could hit $1 trillion in market value in 2019. Microsoft has a valuation of $722 billion today. Apple is at $877 billion. Amazon is at $753 billion Google – alphabet is at $731 billion. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers …