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Financial Services Professionals Believe Open Source is Valuable to Industry Growth: FINOS Survey

The adoption of open source in the financial services industry is “on the rise, largely led by organizations with Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs), which are more than twice as likely to encourage open source consumption, and nearly three times as likely to encourage open… Read More

Blockchain Network Archethic Launches Tool-Based Web Portal

Archethic, a blockchain network, has launched the Archethic Lab web portal, featuring a series of tools that help users and developers to join the project’s ecosystem. The website contains links to the platform’s testnet and mainnet beta, regular video tech updates, and all the tools… Read More

AscendEX Adds Superalgos Automation Tools for Crypto Trading

Superalgos, an open-source community-owned trading intelligence project, this week announced its partnership with AscendEX, a global cryptocurrency platform. Through the partnership, Superalgos will bring the exchange’s users new trading automation tools, enabling them to deploy sophisticated automated trading systems. The Superalgos community, for its part, will… Read More

Bitcoin and Other Blockchain Networks May Not be Decentralized as Recent Cloudflare Outage led to Lower BTC Transaction Confirmations

San Francisco-based Cloudflare, a web-infrastructure and website-security firm, offering content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed DNS services, experienced downtime again on July 17, 2020. Whenever Cloudflare goes down or has some other type of technical difficulties, it immediately affects millions of websites that… Read More

Australia’s Digital Bank UBank Publishes Open-Source Software for Enhancing Accessibility of Applications for Users with Disabilities

Australia-based UBank, a digital lending company, has published an open-source software development toolkit on Github repositories in order to assist iOS developers in enhancing the accessibility of applications for users with disabilities. UBank’s new software tool checks for and issues a warning for different types… Read More

Christmas Hacks: Thieves Steal Bitcoins from Electrum Wallet Users

Hackers have stolen more than $750 000 USD in Bitcoins from users of the Electrum Bitcoin hot wallet since December 21st, CCN reports. Another outlet places the amount stolen closer to $1 million. A “hot wallet” is a device for storing the “private keys” needed… Read More

Ping An Announces Full Upgrading of Ping An Cloud; Now Offers Services to External Customers & Sets Up Strategic Partnership with GitHub

Ping An Insurance Group announced on Wednesday it has done a full update of its Ping An Cloud. The company reported the Cloud is entering a new phase of offering cloud services to external customers. As previously reported, Ping An is considered one of the largest… Read More

Linux Foundation Forgives Microsoft, OKs Acquisition of GitHub

Computing’s “Temple of Open Source” -the Linux Foundation- has extended an olive branch to Microsoft by blessing its recent acquisition of the popular software collaboration platform GitHub. According to Github, over 28 million software developers use the site to co-build software and sift it for… Read More

Microsoft Acquires Software-Collaboration Platform GitHub

Yesterday, Microsoft confirmed rumours it is acquiring GitHub, a largely-free software-collaboration platform considered the most popular “version control system” in the world. Microsoft reports that it paid $7.5 billion dollars of its own stock for the acquisition. Today Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5B by issuing… Read More

Kickstarter Becomes One of Sixteen Companies to File Amicus Brief in Support of Apple’s Privacy Case

On Thursday, Kickstarter announced it has filed an amicus brief with sixteen other companies to support Apple in its fight to protect the privacy and security of its millions of customers. Following the devastating shooting in San Bernardino last December, a federal court ordered the technology giant… Read More

IVP Ends 2015 on a High Note By Raising $1.4 Billion Fund XV; Announces 14 New Investments

IVP, a later-stage venture capital and growth equity firms in the U.S., announced on Thursday that it has raised a new $1.4 billion fund and distributed over $500 million in capital back to its Limited Partners, including the proceeds from three significant M&A transactions: Business… Read More

Quora Roundup: Tips On Big Rewards, Glowing Plant Dangers, Github Crowdfunding & Rule 506 Strategy

There are a bunch of interesting crowdfunding topics on Quora, so we wanted to round up a few of the best recent answers and share them here. First, how can crowdfunders use expensive rewards to find success? Some thoughts… Read Quote of Kevin Flint’s answer… Read More

arkOS Crowdfunding An Open-Source, Raspberry Pi-Powered Google Fighter

What did you do when Google killed Google Reader, much to the chagrin of many of the service’s fans? Jacob Cook declared war. Well, not literally. What he did do was begin to work on arkOS, a Linux-based operating system that aims to replace all-knowing… Read More

WATCH: Balanced Featured In Github Video Series

We recently brought you the story of Balanced, a payment processor and escrow service specializing in P2P marketplaces and crowdfunding platforms. Part of the story around Balanced is their open approach to building a business. A big part of that approach is deep integration with… Read More

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