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• Epic Games' store is now open, promises a free title every fortnight

  As promised, publisher Epic Games has thrown open the doors to its online store today, with a small selection of PC games ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Shell, BP, and big banks launch energy trading platform on the blockchain

  The world's leading energy producers and banks joined forces to today launch a new blockchain-based trading platform for ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Amazon officially joins the blockchain party

  Amazon is now officially part of the party after launching two new blockchain oriented services, Amazon Managed Blockchain ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Audible finally brings reasonably priced audiobooks to India

  Amazon launched its Audible store for audiobooks in India last week, making its library of more than 2,00,000 titles available ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Tencent and Huawei lead Chinese companies in building coinless ‘Ethereum-killer’

  A consortium backed by Tencent and Huawei will debut its new open source "blockchain ecosystem" at the Singapore Fintech ...

  • David Canellis

• India's largest Bitcoin exchange moves to Malta to escape regulation

  Zebpay, once India's largest cryptocurrency exchange, is moving operations to Malta after having shut shop on its home turf ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Binance will launch its first cryptocurrency-to-fiat trading pairs in Uganda

  Binance Uganda users are now able to fully submit identity documents and deposit fiat ahead of live cryptocurrency trade, ...

  • David Canellis

• IBM launches tool to help grocery stores track food on the blockchain

  IBM has just launched IBM Food Trust, a new blockchain software suite built for tracking food supply routes using distributed ...

  • David Canellis

• EOS user exploits 'dumb' smart contract to make 1B tokens magically appear

  An EOS community member has credited himself with a billion SE7EN tokens by exploiting its poorly made smart contract. Devs ...

  • David Canellis

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new startup wants to give people control over their data again

  Sir Tim Berners-Lee is working on a startup whose mission is to help people control their data - by building the internet ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Amazon Prime Reading brings a half-decent selection of free ebooks to India

  Amazon is rounding out its Prime loyalty program for subscribers in India with the introduction of Prime Reading, which brings ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Coinbase’s new discovery tools make buying cryptocurrency dangerously easy

  Coinbase thinks it can make investing in cryptocurrency even easier, but there are a few things newbies ought to consider ...

  • Matthew Beedham