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Download: Beginner's guide to blockchain
Although it rose to fame on the power of bitcoin, blockchain has rapidly morphed into an enterprise-worthy platform that could disrupt a variety of industries. Here's everything you need to know to understand this important...
The top 8 problems with blockchain
While blockchain holds the promise for reinventing business processes, it is still a developing technology with few production systems in place, not to mention governance issues and vulnerabilities that must be understood.
Voice assistant offers remedy for physician burnout
Saykara's digital assistant is aimed at freeing doctors from time-consuming EHR data entry and improving their interactions with patients.
800,000 Shopify merchants now support Apple Business Chat
Shopify introduces Apple Business Chat support for use across its worldwide network of 800,000 online merchants. Now even small firms can offer this kind of customer interaction.
Q&A: Blockchain expert Alex Tapscott sees coming crypto war as 'cataclysmic'
Many large companies have taken steps to embrace blockchain, but Facebook's plans for a cryptocurrency and digital wallet has prompted government oversight committees to call for hearings and may have banks taking another look at the...
Facebook’s cryptocurrency ratchets up pressure on banks, but has big risks
While Facebook's Libra coin has the potential to disrupt traditional commercial banking by removing the middleman between buyers, sellers and money transfers, it also comes with significant risks.
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An iPhone crypto-wallet; a Facebook cryptocurrency? | TECH(talk)
Apple may be prepping to turn your iPhone into a digital wallet, and has already announced plans for an Apple credit card. Now, Facebook expects to roll out its own cryptocurrency in 2020. So just what's going on?
Facebook is going into the banking business with blockchain
The social media powerhouse plans to launch a blockchain-based financial network and cryptocurrency in 2020 that will allow users to make purchases or transfer funds with just a couple taps on an app.
Apple may be prepping to turn your iPhone into a crypto wallet
Apple's CryptoKit is likely the first step in enabling the exchange of private and public keys that will unlock the ability to make purchases using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on stored on your iPhone.
For real estate, blockchain could unshackle investment
A special interest group with the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is detailing opportunities and offering examples of how blockchain can create new real estate markets.
Throwback Thursday: Lost in translation
Lucky; Mandarin probably would have been even harder to deal with.
Forrester: Bank mobile apps frustrating, confusing
Mobile banking should be effortless, but Forrester Research says far too many banks offer frustrating apps and give little thought to how consumers should interact with their financial institutions.
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Poorly designed systems make doctors 'a slave to their EHR'
Problems with clunky electronic health record workflows �� and the inability to share patient information between clinics – are driving some physicians right out of healthcare. But some facilities have figured out how to make things...
Financial firms bank on A.I. as pilot projects head to production
While AI is a buzzword in financial services, companies must be sure of a business use case even before putting together an AI dev team.
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Financial services embraces AI | TECH(talk)
With artificial intelligence (and machine learning) showing up in numerous industries, it's no surprise they're now gaining traction in financial services. Coming soon to a banking chatbot near you....
Enterprise Ethereum upgrades to boost interoperability, performance
New APIs will enable off-chain processing, standardized permissioning processes, and a new consensus algorithm – all aimed at helping programmers build blockchains for business use.
FCC eyes blockchain to track, monitor growing wireless spectrums
The FCC and other government agencies need a more dynamic, real-time method of tracking Wi-Fi spectrums as IoT devices proliferate around the world.
Microsoft touts its first managed blockchain service: JPMorgan’s Quorum
Microsoft's first fully managed blockchain suite based on JPMorgan's Quorum enterprise ledger will offer automatic software updates and key governance tools, along with the ability to build smart contracts.
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