Alibaba Officially Launches its Damo Academy, Lays Out 5 Research Areas and 14 Laboratories

Sep 29, 2018

September 28, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba launches the official website of its R&D arm Damo Academy. Since then, the 5 research areas and 14 laboratories of Alibaba Damo Academy have exposed to the public. According to the official website, there are three laboratories u...

From US To China, Starbuck Confirms Plans To Accept Bitcoin

Aug 4, 2018

Barely a day after it confirmed a deal with Alibaba to expand delivery services throughout China, Starbucks has yet announced it is working with Microsoft and a leading global exchange on a new digital platform that will allow consumers to use bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies at its stores wo...

Alibaba Tops 2017 Global Blockchain Patents Ranking, Guess Who’s The Runner-Up

Feb 8, 2018

In the 2017 Global Enterprise's Blockchain Patent Ranking (Top 100) recently co-released by IPRdaily (a new media committed to creating the world's most influential intellectual property cooperation platform) & incoPat (a patent database collecting more than 100 million pieces of pate...

Guangzhou Works with Alibaba Health and IBM to Promote the Blockchain Technology

Aug 1, 2017

With the support of the Huangpu district government, Guangzhou Blockchain Industry Association was launched on July 28. As the first blockchain association in Guangzhou, it aims to help Guangzhou go digital by promoting cooperation among blockchain startups in this area. “The foundi...

Why Alibaba Could Embrace Bitcoin Ahead of Amazon, Google, Others

Jun 29, 2017

Speculation from a recent public poll conducted via Twitter shows that top Chinese e-commerce company, Alibaba, is likely to be the next global giant to accept Bitcoin. 52 percent of 4,500 participants in the survey put together by the owner of Digital Currency Group, Barry Silbert, ar...

In All, Remember Why Bitcoin Is Gaining Long-Term Value

Apr 24, 2017

Despite the differences, and arguments, as well as the dips and highs, the price of one Bitcoin has not remain the same since last year. It has more than doubled and keeps rising, albeit slowly, as it corrects. As a result, more people in several sectors have been monitoring progress in the Bit...

China, India To Gain More From 2000% Blockchain Market Growth In 6 Years

Apr 17, 2017

Similar to a previous report which estimates almost 700% global increase in annual revenue for enterprise applications of blockchain in the next ten years, a new study has revealed that Asia will grow at the highest compound annual growth rate CAGR when the global blockchain market grows at a ...

Jack Ma’s Ant Financial looks to take world to China with blockchain

Feb 13, 2017

At a time when a new report deemed blockchain as likely to reinforce a structure for cash securities in large and complex but mostly domestic markets such as Japan and China, the parent company of China’s largest online payment service, Jack Ma's Ant Financial, has expressed interest in exp...