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Drone

Blockchain-based IoT project does drone deliveries using Ethereum

By Ian Allison

San Francisco-based Chronicled used Ethereum to authenticate drone package delivery system.

Bitcoin

Over 8 million Bitcoin wallets left inaccessible as Blockchain.info hit with DNS hijack

Blockchain.info powers up to 100,000 Bitcoin transactions every day.

By Jason Murdock

Unilever sales decline in third quarter amid negative currency impact

Unilever sales decline in third quarter amid negative currency impact

The report of the decline comes amid Tesco removing many Unilever brands from their website.

By Kedar Grandhi

Rhode Island, US Landscape

Rhode Island courts UK investment unworried by shape of post-Brexit US-UK negotiations

Brexit won't impact relationships with UK businesses, or dampen bid to enhance cooperation with...

By Gaurav Sharma

IPFS

Juan Benet of IPFS talks about Filecoin

IPFS is ready to add a blockchain-based currency layer called Filecoin to incentivise data storage...

By Ian Allison

Cryptocurrency

BitShares Munich chief fixes cryptocurrency volatility with smart contracts

Idea behind Smartcoins developed by Daniel Larimer, co-founder of Bitshares and Steem blockchains.

By Brandon Kostinuk

Deloitte

Deloitte likes blockchain for loyalty rewards programmes

The report is one in a series on blockchain use cases produced by Deloitte Center for Financial...

By Ian Allison

Contactless card payment

The contactless revolution: Visa study claims mobile payments 'tripled in the past year'

In the UK, more than half the people surveyed (58%) used contactless cards this year.

By Jason Murdock

Shares of Premier Foods takes a beating amid weak second quarter sales

Premier Foods shares take a beating amid weak second quarter sales

Total group sales for the 13 weeks ended 1 October were down 5.4% on-year to £172.5m.

By Kedar Grandhi

Ethereum

The case for more permissive relicensing of Ethereum

Proposal to move C++ Ethereum client runtime from the copyleft GPLv3 licence to the more permissive...

By Ian Allison

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Shipping giant Maersk tests blockchain-powered bill of lading

By Ian Allison

Maersk took part in a proof of concept, with blockchain expertise from the IT University of Copenhagen.

Gold bullion

EY and Paxos collaborate on gold bullion blockchain

By Ian Allison

Big Four firm EY to support rollout of first blockchain use case to settle gold in London bullion market.

cufflink

Blockchain plus 3D printing equals 'smart manufacturing' and Ethereum you can touch

By Ian Allison

Genesis of Things was established and launched just a few weeks before DevCon2 in Shanghai.

ethercamp

EtherCamp announces crowdsale for Hacker Gold Token

By Ian Allison

Developer of Ethereum-based platform will host a nine-week sale starting October 20.

Berkshire Hathaway Boss Warren Buffet

Warren Buffett releases tax information to prove Trump wrong on tax dodge claim

By Mary Papenfuss

'I have no problem releasing my tax information, neither should Trump' says Buffett.

Computer and the Judge

Avoiding patent wars and reducing IP risk in the blockchain ecosystem

By Ian Allison

Marc Kaufman, partner at Reed Smith, presented at the EUIPO Blockchain IP...

RBS

Stuffing small businesses is latest banking malpractice fad as RBS and Wells Fargo show

By Gaurav Sharma

Guilty parties and victims change, but unscrupulous practices in financial...

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HS2 rail line has sparked controversy

HS2 to 'stress test' construction consortiums

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