Microsoft previews decentralized identity network based on blockchain agnostic protocol
Microsoft is making a breakthrough with its year-long effort to bring major infrastructure change to how internet users’ identities are stored and verified. The tech giant announced on Monday that it is test running its decentralized identifier (DID) network running atop the Bitcoin blockchain. The decentralized identifier network, dabbed ION (Identity Overlay Network), is based...
Largest ever continuous oil and gas resource found in the United...
The US Department of the Interior has announced the discovery of the largest continuous oil and gas field ever found, estimated to contain 46.3 billion barrels of oil, 281 trillion ft³ of natural gas, and 20 billion barrels of natural gas liquids.
China strikes oil and gas deals with Russia’s Rosneft
BEIJING/MOSCOW -- Russian state-owned company Rosneft announced Thursday that it has signed energy deals with a pair of Chinese energy counterpar
Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline Announce Joint Venture to Create a Premier Global...
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and GlaxoSmithKline plc (NYSE:GSK) today announced they have entered into an agreement to create a premier global consumer hea
Akamai and MUFG Announce Joint Venture for Blockchain-Based Online Payment Network
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the intelligent edge platform for securing and deliverin
GSK to Co-Develop Merck KGaA’s Cancer Immunotherapy Candidate M7824 in $4.2B...
GlaxoSmithKline will partner with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, to co-develop and co-commercialize the cancer immunotherapy candidate M7824 (bintrafusp alfa), through a collaboration that could generate more than €3.7 billion ($4.2 billion) for German Merck.
Visa Launches ePayments Processing in Argentina
Visa has launched a new ePayment processing system called VisaNet in Argentina, the company announced on Tuesday (Jan. 29). The company said the new service will bring new ways to pay and new services to Argentinian cardholders, shopkeepers and banking institutions. The launch will increase Visa’s slice of the domestic transaction pie in the region...
Drillers add oil rigs for first week in three -Baker Hughes...
U.S. energy firms this week increased the number of oil rigs operating for the first time in three weeks even as crude output decelerates with the rig count dropping five months in a row due to spending cuts.
Groupe Renault and JMCG announce an agreement in Electric Vehicles in...
Groupe Renault and JMCG announce an agreement in EV on the fast-growing Chinese market, which represents today 50% of the worldwide EV market
Vanadium Resource: Nevada Mining Rush Is Back On And It’s Not...
In the USA, there are no active primary vanadium producing mines with most primary vanadium deposits concentrated in the northern Nevada
