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Ubisoft Leads $36 billion Gaming Industry to Adopt Blockchain With ConsenSys and New Alliance

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One of the worlds largest game publishers, Ubisoft leads the gaming industry to adopt blockchain technology with the newly formed Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) that includes Ethereum venture studio ConsenSys and a plethora of blockchain gaming companies. Announced at the first-ever Blockchain Game Summit in Lyon, which was sponsored by Ubisoft, the BGA will provide an open forum for knowledge-sharing and collaborative research, creating industry standards and best practices for gaming applications that rely on distributed ledger technology (DLT) The BGA website states: “Our ultimate goal is to help spread the integration of…

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Blockchain Browser Brave Files Complaints Against Google Ads Data Collection Practices

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Developed by Mozilla co-founder and Javascript creator, Brendan Eich, the blockchain browser Brave files complaints against Google advertisement (ads) data collection practices in the UK and Ireland. Together with Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group, and Michael Veale of University College London, Brave’s chief policy officer Johnny Ryan filed formal complaints with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner and the U.K. Information Commissioner. Brave, an open-source blockchain browser that blocks ads and website trackers, cited that the way Google and the advertising technology (adtech) industry publish personalised online ads…

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Hacera and IBM Launch a Blockchain Directory Touted as a Distributed ‘Yellow Pages’

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Enterprise blockchain firm Hacera, together with founding member IBM launch a blockchain directory with the aim of expediting the growth of blockchain networks, by making it easier for companies to discover and join blockchain projects. Entitled the ‘Unbounded Registry’, Vice president at IBM Blockchain, Jerry Cuomo announced in a blog post on Thursday that the directory is now live. Likening it to the Yellow Pages, he recalled the history and significance of the directory that: “put businesses on the map and made them known to the world”. The registry is able to interoperate…

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Social Media Giant Twitter Looking into Blockchain to Fight Fake News Says CEO Dorsey

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Jack Dorsey, CEO of the social media giant Twitter, testified before a U.S. Congressional committee on Wednesday, confirming that Twitter is considering the use of blockchain to fight fake news and prevent online scams. U.S. Congress is currently probing into the potential political bias among tech giants Twitter, Google and Facebook, questioning CEO’s such as Dorsey and Zuckerberg of Facebook, to identify what steps they are taking to prevent future election meddling. Doris Matsui, a representative of California, questioned Dorsey during a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing about user…

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LinkedIn Co-Founder Launches ‘Hub’ a New Blockchain Trust Protocol Network

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Eric Ly, Linkedin co-founder launches ‘Hub’ a new blockchain trust protocol network that aims to provide people with verified portable reputation data, to encourage more trustworthy online interactions and transactions. Hub, refers to itself as a ‘human trust protocol’, to some extent it is like an Experian rating system for your integrity, loyalty and trustworthiness, as opposed to just your financial management capabilities. By facilitating connections between users on the internet in areas such as messengers, online communities, social networks, and peer-to-peer marketplaces, Hub aims to make it easier for users…

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Softbank and Baidu Invest in Ex Google Employees Blockchain Advertising Protocol

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Major investors, SoftBank China Venture Capital (SBCVC) and Baidu Ventures (BV) have led a seed round for Atlas Protocol (ATP), a startup company founded by ex Google employees, that aims to create a new blockchain advertising protocol. ATP, incubated by Nebulas Labs and the xGoogler Blockchain Alliance (xGBA), is using blockchain technology to change the dynamics of the digital marketing industry, with a new ‘interactive’ advertising ecosystem. Currently, online marketing companies do not provide users with any control over their collected data, and with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it has become…

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Adblock Plus Identify Fake News using Blockchain Technology

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Adblock Plus are launching TrustedNews, identifying fake news using blockchain technology. Partnering with MetaCert, the largest anti-fraud and URL registry, the browser ‘add-on’ marks for trustworthiness and labels media for fake news.

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China’s Largest Ride Hailing Founder, Reveals Plans to Build a Blockchain Uber

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Chen Weixing, who helped shape China’s $30 billion ride hailing market, reveals plans to build a blockchain Uber equivalent. In 2014, Weixing fought off competition from Alibaba and in a joint merger, they later acquired Uber’s China operation. Today the company accounts for 90% of trips made in China, a ride hailing market that is already worth more than the rest of the world combined. Weixing has said that his decentralised platform will be developed to empower “labourers” and “consumers” describing it as a “great, Nobel Prize-level social experiment” adding that it would not be controlled by “capitalists”.

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Zuckerberg Dedicates Top Execs to New Facebook Blockchain Team

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Zuckerberg moves highest ranking executives to build a Facebook Blockchain Team, marking the biggest restructuring in the companies history. The team head will be David Marcus, former President of Paypal and currently a Board Member of Coinbase, the popular digital currency exchange. Cryptocurrency related products have seen an uptake from millennials, and could potentially disrupt his networking market. However, with a board that includes venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, very active investors in blockchain, Facebook is not to be underestimated.

facebook sparks blockchain for social networks

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Facebook Data breach, sparks discussion on blockchain for social networks

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Facebook’s data security breach has sparked discussions on a ‘permission-based’ decentralised blockchain for social networks. The recent data breach by Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that inappropriately obtained detailed information of over 50 million facebook profiles, has revealed how data can be exploited in the worst possible way.