By CCN: The Nasdaq-100 Index may have topped out - for now - leaving big names such as Apple Inc (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) vulnerable to the fury of the bears. Nevertheless, not all stocks in the index have a bleak short-term outlook. Several tech giants have already suffered vicious corrections and now offer investors surprising upside. Tesla Inc. (TSLA), Nvidia Corp. (NDVA), and Intel Corp...
Apple will resume its sale of iPhones in its stores in Germany, selling its older models which come with chips from Qualcomm Inc., as the chipmaker gets one over the Cupertino-based tech giant. The world's biggest supplier of mobile chips Qualcomm had brought a suit against Apple, where it claimed the smartphone maker was infringing on one of its patent that had to do with smartphone power...
By CCN.com: Since early 2018, virtually every type of debt in the U.S. has achieved an all-time high, surpassing trillions of dollars, and that should make Americans wary of the recent recovery seen in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and wider U.S. stock market. Don't Trust the Dow Jones Rebound Investors including Doubleline Capital founder Jeffrey Gundlach have said that the U.S. economy is...
Intel has been awarded patent #10,142,098 , which pertains to a system they’ve designed which improves the energy efficiency of Bitcoin miners. While it takes a hardware engineer to fully understand what’s going on in their patent, relevant to the discussion is the following quote: […] certain portions of the input message, state data, and input values to multi-stage SHA-256 engines 110, 112, 114...
Created by Google, Microsoft, and Intel engineers, Dfinity Foundation is set to be the crypto sector's biggest private token sale of 2018 valued at $2 billion. Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) made its largest investment in the crypto sector to date through its two-month old cryptocurrency fund. A16Z was amongst five investment firms including the $1 billion crypto fund Polychain Capital to lead the...
The Enigma price jumped today on news that the company will partner with Intel to develop privacy-preserving computing technologies. The price for the privacy-centric altcoin moved from $1.39 to $1.65 today, according to CoinMarketCap, its best performance in more than a week, edging closer to the $2.16 peak it reached two weeks ago. Enigma’s price has hovered below the $2.00 mark since late May...
A group of 8 banks from the R3 blockchain consortium have successfully tested a blockchain prototype developed by Intel by simulating bond transactions. Picking US treasury bonds as the instrument, New York-based private blockchain startup R3 and eight of its member banks from its larger consortium put to test a technology developed by Intel, called ‘Sawtooth Lake.’ The prototype was an...
The R3-led blockchain consortium of the world’s biggest banks has completed their second known proof of concept experiment of blockchain technology with trials spanning five different blockchain solutions. Forty of the world’s biggest banks that are partners in the private blockchain consortium led by New York-based blockchain-tech startup R3 have tested distributed ledger systems from five...