Bitcoin wallet and block explorer provider Blockchain has unveiled its latest Android wallet update, announcing the news at The North American Bitcoin Conference (NABC), an ongoing two-day industry event taking place in downtown Chicago. Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain.info is releasing a major new version of its Android app, allowing you to store, receive and send…
Here in this article, we take a lot at two very promising stocks: Microsoft and IBM. Both these stocks have been related with some strong news and therefore the stock prices of these two stocks has risen in the past couple of weeks. Let’s take a closer look. Microsoft, the software giant well known for…
Germany-based digital currency bitcoin ATM and point-of-sale (POS) solution provider BitXatm has announced a new partnership that will find the company shipping 1,000 units to the US in a bid to build the country’s largest bitcoin ATM network. For the initiative, BitXatm will partner with Los Angeles-based CryptVision, a startup that itself is seeking to…
In the first quarter of the year, Spain’s largest bank, Grupo Santander SAN , earned EUR 1,205 million, up significantly from the EUR 401 million it earned in the trailing quarter. Most of this increase was due to the non-recurrence of special loan loss provisions in the fourth quarter; excluding this, earnings were up 18%…
PayFast, a leading South African payment processor, started offering the digital currency bitcoin as a payment option, making it available to the firm’s 30,000 merchant customers. It becomes the first payment processor in South Africa, and one of the first anywhere, to offer the cryptocurrency as an option. The subject of Africa and developing markets…
In the first quarter, BASF BAS continued to rely on its diversified product mix in what has been a challenging market environment for chemical producers. BASF’s agriculture and oil and gas businesses propped up sales in the first quarter, as revenues increased 4.8% year over year. On a geographic basis, management noted that growth in…
