Is InsurTech missing a $2 trillion opportunity?
Here’s an interesting contradiction- the insurance industry is heavily focusing on innovation, but letting others take the lead in cyber issues. And those ‘others’ are
Category : Internet of Things
Napster Creator’s Blockchain Firm Helium Releases IoT Hotspots
Napster creator Shawn Fanning’s new company Helium has released its internet of things (IoT) wireless hotspot devices with a blockchain-based incentives program, according to an
Napster Founder’s IoT Startup to Go Crypto With $15 Million Series C
An internet-of-things (IoT) startup founded in 2013 is adding tokens to its business model with the backing of two of crypto’s best-known funders. Helium announced Wednesday
How HSBC is spending its $17 billion tech budget
Jeremy Balkin, head of innovation at HSBC Bank USA, shares how the bank is investing in retail innovation, including a $350 million core system. Source
Could this eco-friendly biobattery usher in era of ‘disposable IoT’?
Potentially allowing for everything to be connected online, a new biobattery could be part of the ‘internet of disposable things’. Much of the focus of
Blockchains Acquires Development Firm Behind ‘The DAO’ Project
United States-based blockchain incubator and investment firm Blockchains, LLC, has acquired the German Ethereum dev team slock.it, according to a press release on June 3.
The Startup Behind Ethereum’s Infamous DAO Has Been Acquired
Blockchains.com, a blockchain incubation and investment firm, announced today the acquisition of slock.it, a German company with roots in the original development of ethereum. Blockchains
China says it will ‘soon grant’ 5G licenses for commercial use
There’s a widely accepted method to interpret China’s official announcements: the shorter the news, the heavier it is. Today, in one concise sentence, the Ministry
Insurers love NPS- can the IoT help show why it remains an important measure? – Daily Fintech
TLDR What to do, what to do, in the InsurTech, innovation insurance world? Insurance remains a ‘sold, not bought’, product. Virtual service is
World Economic Forum Forms Tech Policy Councils for Blockchain, AI, IoT
The World Economic Forum (WEF) announced the formation of six separate “fourth industrial revolution councils” to work on new technology policy guidance, according to a
IOTA is Finally Killing off Its Centralized Coordinator
After a ton of hints from the IOTA Foundation, a website detailing how the coordinator will be killed off in a ‘coordicide’ has been released
No cloud required: Why AI’s future is at the edge
For all the promise and peril of artificial intelligence, there’s one big obstacle to its seemingly relentless march: The algorithms for running AI applications have
International Tabletop Day, Orca Action Month, GeekWire Cloud Summit – GeekWire
(GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) — Video games tend to take center stage in the gaming world today, but classic tabletop competition is still one
‘5G will enable us to transform nearly everything’
Vodafone Ireland’s new CTO, Didier Clavero, said that 5G will not only mean faster speeds and lower latency, it will also mean more things can
Do IoT devices really pose a security risk, or is it merely paranoia?
Market data firm Statista projects that by 2025, there will be 75 billion IoT devices in use. Smart devices are now found throughout most commercial