Microsoft Invests $70 Million in South Africa for AI Advancement
Microsoft South Africa (SA) has entered into a $70.5 million artificial intelligence (AI) investment agreement with the Southern African nation’s Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition (DTIC). The investment aims to support the developmen…
After dropping below $26,000 per unit, the price of bitcoin, the leading digital asset by market capitalization, is still up 9.6% since last week. However, its price has decreased by 6.5% in the last 24 hours. Out of the 7,316 companies, crypto assets, precious metals, and exchange-traded funds worth more than $82 trillion in value, […]
While the price of bitcoin and numerous cryptocurrencies have jumped in value, a great number of merchants have been willing to accept digital currencies for goods and services. These days a crypto proponent can buy literally anything with their crypto assets and some of these items are very unique and extraordinary. Crypto Spenders Can Build […]
You’ve heard of Software as a Service (Saas), the means by which businesses subscribe to and access cloud-based software. Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) is its distributed ledger equivalent. It describes the process by which a third party installs, hosts and maintains blockchain networks on behalf of other organizations. Today, BaaS is utilized in industries such as fintech, […]
The other day we reported on the tech giant Microsoft removing the “redeem bitcoin” option from its payments page. One of our reporters spoke with a Microsoft agent who detailed that bitcoin was no longer supported. Later in the evening on January 9, two news outlets detailed they had chatted with a Microsoft spokeswoman who […]
Cryptocurrency users are used to seeing more and more adoption of the instruments by companies. From time to time there are setbacks however, like Microsoft now reversing its previous bitcoin position. Also Read: Is Bitpay Bullying Other Bitcoin Wallets and Hurting Users’ Privacy? Microsoft’s About-Face on Bitcoin Technology giant Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has canceled a previous […]
The operation had been underway for weeks. Had all gone to plan, Coinbase and Gdax customers would have awoken on Wednesday morning to discover that bitcoin cash trading had finally been added. Traders would relish the liquidity this new market would bring, the exchanges would scoop up more fees, and bitcoin core maximalists would soon […]