Microsoft, India’s Tanla Launch Encrypted Messaging Infrastructure Built With Blockchain
The edge-to-edge encrypted platform is built on Microsoft Azure and accessible by clients via an API. Source
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Microsoft and Ernst & Young (EY) Expands Xbox Blockchain for Rights and Royalties Management
The blockchain will allow Microsoft to utilize Azure-based artificial intelligence (AI) for swift contract creation.American multinational technology company Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and British firm Ernst & Young LLP (EY) have announced the expansion of the Xbox blockchain platform to allow rights and royalties management. In the joint announcement, the companies said that
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Microsoft, EY Expand Blockchain Platform for Gaming Rights to Include Payments
Microsoft and Ernst & Young LLP announced plans to use a blockchain platform to allow Microsoft’s Xbox gaming partners, artists and content creators to track and manage their payments and royalty contracts. Source
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Hackers Using Monero Mining Malware as Decoy, Warns Microsoft
Crypto-jacking is giving nation-state hackers a decoy for their more malicious attacks, warned Microsoft in a Monday report. The company’s intelligence team said a group called BISMUTH hit government targets in France and Vietnam with relatively conspicuous monero mining trojans this summer. Mining the crypto generated side cash for the
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Microsoft Exec Joins Blockchain Gaming Platform Enjin to Lead Enterprise Push
Blockchain gaming platform Enjin is launching a bid to attract more enterprise business and it’s hired an executive with two decades of experience at Microsoft to lead the effort.Announced Monday, Alex Solomon, whose last role at Microsoft was Azure product marketing director, Western Europe, has joined Enjin as its executive
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Microsoft employee sentenced to 9 years in first U.S. Bitcoin case involving tax fraud
A former Microsoft engineer has been sentenced to nine years for stealing more than $10 million in digital value from his past employer in the form of “currency stored value" (CSV) including gift cards.Volodymyr Kvashuk, a 26-year-old Ukrainian citizen residing in Washington, used the accounts and identities of his fellow
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Microsoft Has Nuked the Console War – Here’s How
Microsoft Has Nuked the Console War – Here’s How CCN.com - News & Blazing Op-Eds Microsoft has claimed they want to rise above the console wars, and with Game Pass they might have just gone and done it. Microsoft Has Nuked the Console War – Here’s How CCN.com - News &
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Sony’s PS5 Masterplan is Still Lagging Behind Microsoft
Sony wants in on the subscription-based future.The thing is, Microsoft is already leagues ahead.Can Sony catch up with the PlayStation 5?The future of gaming is digital. With the evolution of xCloud, GeForce Now, and subscription platforms like Microsoft’s GamePass, or PS Now from Sony, no one argues this.However, the wonder
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Microsoft Just Leaked, and Confirmed, the Xbox Series S
Freshly-discovered official Game Pass promotional material features yet another mention of the Xbox Series S console. The redemption code for the subscription service was packaged alongside an Xbox controller. Its inclusion suggests Microsoft planned to announce the console by now. Microsoft’s elusive next-gen Xbox Series S has again appeared in the wild, further
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Dow Soars as Walmart Joins Microsoft in the Hunt For TikTok Dow Soars As Walmart Joins Microsoft In The Hunt For TikTok
The Dow Jones rose 0.9% Thursday. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell indicated in his speech that the U.S. economy would be free to run hot. Walmart stock surged despite weak jobless claims data after a report suggested the company will be making a run on TikTok with Microsoft. The Dow Jones rallied 180
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